Talking to customers · Independent · 22 Oct 2026

Heilonng23/openheard

open source canny / featurebase alternative

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openheard: open source feedback board. Runs on Cloudflare's free tier.

In simple English

This tool lets your customers send feedback, vote on ideas and watch your roadmap. It replaces paid tools like Canny or Featurebase. You can pay to use their cloud service or run it yourself for free on Cloudflare. Setting it up takes a few commands in your terminal. It needs a free Cloudflare account if you host it yourself.

What it is

A full-stack feedback board built with TypeScript and React that deploys directly to Cloudflare Workers and D1 (a serverless SQL database). It includes authentication, email notifications, a help center and an embeddable widget for your app.

What it is good for

Solo builders who want a clean public feature board and changelog without paying monthly software fees or renting a virtual private server.

Stars184
LicenceAGPL-3.0
Latestv0.1.0 (2026-09-25)checked 22 Oct 2026
Last code change2026-10-03
Written inTypeScript
Setup effort
3 / 5
Payoff
4 / 5
Good
  • Runs on Cloudflare's free tier so hosting costs nothing for moderate traffic.
  • Deploys with two commands using the provided setup script.
  • Includes a roadmap, changelog, help center and an embeddable widget out of the box.
Watch for
  • Uses the AGPL-3.0 licence, which requires you to share changes if you modify and host it as a service.
  • Requires a Cloudflare account and familiarity with terminal commands to self-host.
  • Depends on Cloudflare services, making local testing slightly different from production.
Replaces

Paid feedback boards like Canny and Featurebase, or self-hosted alternatives that require a dedicated virtual private server and PostgreSQL.

Works well with

Cloudflare Workers for serverless hosting and D1 for database storage.

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Install
git clone https://github.com/Heilonng23/openheard && cd openheard
bun install
lp packages/infra/.env.example packages/infra/.env
cd packages/infra && bunx alchemy login --configure && cd ../..
bun run deploy

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