4.5k stars · AGPL-3.0 · v0.36.1 (2026-07-03) · Track this in Scout
Self-hosted public feedback board — a roadmap that builds trust, and user language that doubles as keyword research.
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What it is
A self-hosted feedback board: users post ideas, vote on each other's, and you mark items planned, started or completed. It is one Go binary against a PostgreSQL database, in the same shape as Listmonk from Edition 2.
What it is good for. Two payoffs, and the second is the one people miss. The obvious one: a solo founder's product looks abandoned until there is visible evidence that someone is steering it, and a public board with dated, completed items is that evidence. The subtler one: the posts are users describing the product in their own words, unprompted. That is the exact vocabulary to feed into OpenSEO (Edition 2) as keyword seeds, and the exact phrasing a landing page should use instead of the company's own. Be honest about timing though — an empty board is worse than no board, so this waits until there is a steady trickle of users.
- Single Go binary plus an existing Postgres — near-zero added maintenance
- Voting tells you what to build next, with evidence rather than instinct
- Public boards get indexed, so user-written pages accumulate on your domain
- Search indexing and moderation tooling sit behind a paid Pro key even when you self-host — check this first
- Premature without users; a board with three posts signals the opposite of what you want
- AGPL-3.0, and it is a public-facing service — read the terms before modifying it
That is the exact vocabulary you should be feeding into OpenSEO (Edition 2) as keyword seeds, and the exact phrasing your landing page should be using instead of yours.
