Public SaaS roadmap.
Show customers what is under review, planned, moving, or shipped without exposing private prioritization notes or exact dates the team cannot defend.
Product roadmap software
Show the plan without losing the evidence.
Managani connects roadmap cards to the feedback, votes, customer context, release communication, and adoption work that explain why a product decision exists.
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The answer first
A useful roadmap explains direction, not theater.
Product roadmap software should help a team communicate what it is exploring, planning, building, and shipping. It should also let the team return to the customer evidence behind each card. Without that evidence, a roadmap becomes a polished list that drifts away from real demand. Without clear confidence language, it becomes a promise the team never intended to make.
Managani keeps the roadmap close to the feedback workflow. A request can retain its submitter, votes, discussion, visibility, approval, status, and assignee while it moves through an editable roadmap. When work ships, the same product loop continues into the changelog and adoption guidance.
End-to-end workflow
Build a roadmap from signals, not a blank canvas.
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Define what each stage means.
Create lists that reflect actual decision confidence. “Under review” can mean gathering evidence; “planned” can mean accepted without a fixed date; “in progress” should mean active delivery; “shipped” should point to the release.
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Move the request, not a copied title.
Place a feedback record on the roadmap so the votes, customer, comments, tags, and original problem remain available. Avoid creating a second disconnected task that immediately loses context.
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Keep private and public communication distinct.
Internal teams need candid tradeoffs and uncertain timing. Customers need an understandable status and outcome. Use visibility deliberately instead of exposing every planning note.
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Update status as the decision changes.
Roadmaps lose trust when stale cards accumulate. Review them on a regular product cadence, close rejected or obsolete requests, and explain material changes.
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Connect shipped work to communication.
Link the finished item to a changelog entry, guide the relevant customers in the product, and check whether adoption or friction moved after launch.
Use cases
Different audiences, one current source.
Founder operating board.
Keep a small team aligned on the next product outcomes and preserve the requests behind them without maintaining a separate presentation deck.
Customer success context.
Let support and success answer status questions from a shared record, then return to the right accounts when an item moves or ships.
Setup and integration
Design the language before importing cards.
A clean board cannot fix ambiguous product status.
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Choose a small number of stages.
Start with under review, planned, in progress, and shipped. Add a list only when it represents a distinct decision your team consistently makes.
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Connect feedback records.
Move approved requests into the roadmap from the feedback detail. Keep customer identity and vote context available instead of importing anonymous rows.
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Publish with an explicit caveat.
Explain that direction can change as the team learns. Use changelog entries for shipped facts and the roadmap for current intent.
Limitations
Not a portfolio-planning suite.
Managani is not designed to replace complex enterprise portfolio management, engineering sprint planning, capacity forecasting, dependency graphs, or finance-grade scenario modeling. Large organizations with many product lines may need deeper permissions, hierarchy, and resource planning. Validate those requirements before migrating.
Pricing context
Hosted beta without maker-seat pricing.
Managani is free during the current hosted beta and does not use a maker-seat meter today. Future commercial pricing is not final. Full application source and self-hosting are planned for an AGPL v1 release, not currently downloadable. See pricing and the availability status.
Proof and practice
Built inside the same workflow it describes.
The screenshot above is the current Managani beta, not a concept mockup. It shows editable lists, real feedback cards, visibility, votes, comments, and the SSO-status example moving from customer request into “Planned.” Managani itself is built by the founder-led team behind Helpmonks and Razuna, where public roadmaps and customer feedback have been part of shipping SaaS for years.
FAQ
Product roadmap software, answered plainly.
What is product roadmap software?
It organizes product direction and communicates current status while retaining the evidence behind each decision. It is different from sprint planning: a roadmap describes outcomes and confidence; engineering tools manage delivery tasks.
Can Managani create custom roadmap stages?
Yes. The beta supports creating and editing lists and moving feedback cards between them. A simple set of stages is usually clearer than a board that mirrors every internal state.
Should a public roadmap show dates?
Only when the team has enough delivery confidence to support them. For early-stage SaaS, status and outcome often communicate more honestly than a quarter or day that may change.
How is this different from Productboard?
Productboard is a mature product-management platform with deeper prioritization and planning workflows. Managani is lighter and broader across feedback, roadmap, changelog, onboarding, and tracking. Read the sourced comparison.