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Thoughts on making your roadmap public?

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A discussion among small, bootstrapped founders wrestling with this exact decision, so you get lived experience rather than a vendor's pitch. You see what actually happened when peers opened or held back their roadmaps. Good for gut checking against people at your stage. The disagreements in the thread are the useful part.

  • Founders at your scale report both trust wins and expectation headaches
  • Many settle on sharing themes and status rather than dates
  • How you word 'planned' versus 'considering' changes how users react
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The question it answers

  1. Should I share a public roadmap with my early users, or does that just create pressure and expectations I cannot meet?

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  5. This is the direct answer to the pressure problem in the question: if a public roadmap scares you because of dates you cannot... prodpad.com Article Why I Invented the Now-Next-Later Roadmap Janna Bastow
  6. This tackles the exact question head-on: should you expose the roadmap at all, and what do you actually risk. It is honest... canny.io Essay Should You Have a Public Product Roadmap? Eric Hoppe
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