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Derek Osgood

Changelogs & Idea Management by Ignition - Publish changelogs, and prioritize feature ideas

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Ignition changelogs help you collect and organize feature requests to better understand customer needs and prioritize your roadmap, and then announce new features to customers via custom branded changelogs. Completely free, for life.

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Derek Osgood
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Hey ProductHunt folks! Good news: We’re back with a new Go-to-Market tool from Ignition to help your products succeed 🚀🥳! Good-er news: This one is 100%, completely free, forever 🆓🤑! While we’ve been building Ignition, we’ve seen how tough it can be for some teams to collect and act on customer feedback in a scalable manner, and as always it can be hard to communicate new product updates to customers in ways that really drive adoption. There’s a bunch of really great (paid) tools out there that help with this. But 1,000’s of dollars for a changelog tool? In this economy? We figured “hey, why not make it free”, so we did! Now, even if you’re not using Ignition’s full set of GTM orchestration tools, you can easily: * 💬 Collect customer feature requests * 📈 Allow customers and teammates to vote, discuss, and prioritize feature requests * 📣 Publish announcements to internal teams and public changelogs * 🙋 Collect and segment lists of customers interested in upcoming features The coolest part? This is a natural extension of Ignition’s core product, so when you’re ready to really supercharge your launch process, you can easily connect these feedback and announcement workflows to product roadmaps, personas, and launch plans. To celebrate, we’re even offering 90% off Ignition for the first year if you upgrade to a paid plan — just email “support [at] haveignition.com“ telling us you came from Product Hunt and we’ll apply your discount :). Hopefully Ignition helps some of you out <3. Would love to hear what you think!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@karthiks25 @fares_aktouf Thanks so much Fares!! Appreciate the support 🧑‍🚀🚀
Derek Osgood
Maker
@harrison_riehle Wonderful! Let us know how we can help as you get up and running :)
Nice work! Congrats on the launch.
Derek Osgood
Maker
@ming_xu1 Thanks so much Jarod! Glad you're digging it :)
Barış Kaya
Ah nice! @kantarci was looking for a tool for feature request collection maybe this can be it. Can we have password-protected request pages that we can send to our design partners?
Derek Osgood
Maker
@kantarci @boroskoyo Password protection is coming *super* soon! Should have support for that sometime within the next month or so. Meantime, you can kind of work around that by sharing the page link with your design partners and just not publish it publicly on your website (which is what we did ourselves for a bit with a couple partners)
Shushant Lakhyani
I love the idea, also that it is free forever! Congratulations on the launch!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@shushant_lakhyani Thank you so much Shushant! Yeah "free for life" is always a pretty decent price ;)
Paul Mit
Great idea and interesting product for early stage startups. Good luck with the launch!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@mituhin Thanks Paul! Yeah this is awesome for early companies that don't have a lot of time to squeeze research and product change comms in. Also good for bigger companies as well though, since they feel a lot of the same problems around this!
Moeen Mahmud
Amazing idea! Congratulations on the launch, keep up the good work. 👍
Derek Osgood
Maker
@moeen_mahmud Thank you Moeen! Lots more where this came from too ;)
Cem Bulut
Congrats on the launch guys! Great idea!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@cem_bulut Thanks so much Cem! Really appreciate the support :)
Anil Meena
Congrats on the Launch @ozbad03 This could be a great alternative to Canny. But why free forever?
Derek Osgood
Maker
@anil_meena21 Thanks Anil! Yeah we love Canny too, but definitely happy to be the free alternative when folks are looking to get something off the ground more inexpensively :). And as for why free forever -- this is really designed as a baby-step into our broader GTM platform, and since it's really more of an acquisition tool for us we prefer to give it away for free and make it super accessible. To be clear though, we plan to devote as much product support to this tool as if it were part of our core revenue-generating product (since it's a critical part of that experience as well).
Catherine
Nice product
Derek Osgood
Maker
@catherine_imobie Thank you Catherine! So glad to hear you're a fan!
Manoosh Majdzadeh
Congrats on the launch. :) Looks really cool!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@manoosh Thank you Manoosh! Excited to see what you're shipping with it down the road :)
Chetan Tekur
Wow!! congratulations, this is awesome.
Teja
Love the idea! Congratulations.
Derek Osgood
Maker
@teja_bhutada1 Thanks so much Teja! Glad to hear you're digging it :)
Scott Kosmach
Love the simple clean design. What would be the suggested workflow for reviewing and moving to DevOps backlogs?
Derek Osgood
Maker
@skosmach Thanks Scott! I'm sure our (super talented) designer is lurking in the comments here and will be grateful for the compliment :). To answer your question -- currently you'd need to create tickets separately in your eng management system, but you can review the feature ideas within your internal dashboard, comment on them, then mark the ones you want to actually build as "planned" as you're creating those tickets. We have a few integrations coming within the next couple weeks though to allow you to push feature ideas directly to tools like Jira, Productboard, etc. when you're ready to add them to the roadmap.
Bhimsen
Congrats on the launch!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@bhimsenup Thanks Bhimsen! Launch day is always exciting around here!
Peter Douglas Ross
Ignition is a great Product Marketing tool! Looking forward to trying this out :) Thanks!!!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@peter_douglas_ross Amazing to hear Peter! So glad to have you in our corner :). Definitely keep us posted if we can help with getting these pages set up at all!
Mayank Jain
@ozbad03 this looks super cool. Honestly, we have been looking for a good tool for announcements. This looks a great fit. Shared it with the team and you can count us in :). Good luck for the future.
Derek Osgood
Maker
@mjain_mayank Thanks so much Mayank! Yeah it can be tough to announce stuff with really high velocity in the early days. Glad to hear you feel like this fits the bill and excited to have you aboard :). Keep us posted if we can help at all!
Alexander Eble
I'm fascinated and can really imagine coming back to this in the future! Something I'm still not sure about. Does Ignition generate changelog files too or can Ignition read properly formatted changelog files e. g. conventional changelog?
Derek Osgood
Maker
@alexander_eble Super glad to hear you're excited about this Alexander! Would love to help you get up to speed when you do come back around. Re: changelog files -- can you clarify a bit what you mean? Today, the changelogs in Ignition are basically "posts" to announce these release notes, so there's not really any importing of them from other changelog locations. However, we do plan to add some generation tools pretty soon to help with writing them :)
Alexander Eble
Thanks for the answer, @ozbad03 ! To clarify, I'd really like to see (automatic) import of changelog files in repositories which can be used for proclamations on Ignition in a intelligent way. Starting points for Ignition could be standardized changelog files based on commit conventions. For example, I use a plugin for the release CLI tool release-it which works on the basis of several presets like conventional commits. semantic-release is similar.
Sun Kim
Congrats on the launch! I really like the idea of democratizing features for the product road map and having an easy to launch customer-facing release notes process - will check it out for sure!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@sunkim Thanks Sun! Really glad you're loving the concept :). Would love to hear what you think once you've dug in a bit more!
Seb Butt
Congrats on the release - what a brilliant feature!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@seb_butt1 Thanks Seb! Much appreciate the support :)
chethanjs
Amazing launch! I can see this scale rapidly. Kudos to the entire team at Ignition. Congrats!
Derek Osgood
Maker
@chotijs Thank you so much! That's definitely the hope :)