VoteFirst

VoteFirst is a feature voting board and public roadmap for SaaS teams that weights every vote by customer MRR, so roadmap decisions follow revenue impact instead of the noisiest free users.

What is VoteFirst?

VoteFirst is a hosted web application that collects feature requests and votes from your customers, pulls live MRR from Stripe or Paddle, and produces a revenue-weighted roadmap. It outputs a public roadmap page on your own domain, a REST API for programmatic access, and notification emails when features ship. The product is built by Jachym Jahoda, with Petr Jahoda as devil's advocate in product decisions. It is EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant, and deliberately avoids AI features.

Key Features

• Revenue-weighted voting — Every vote, comment, and view is multiplied by the voter's live MRR and tier multiplier (Enterprise 5x, Pro 2x, Free 1x), so a $500/month customer has more influence than a free user. The dashboard shows the weighted vote count for each feature.
• Demand Score & Priority — Votes count 3 points, comments 2, views 0.1; priority = demand ÷ effort, so you can rank features by value delivered per unit of build effort.
• Public roadmap with custom branding — Publish your roadmap on your own domain (CNAME to roadmap.votefirst.app), with custom CSS, fonts, colors, and border radius. Your first roadmap is public and cannot be made private.
• Full REST API — Every dashboard action is exposed via API: record votes, create features, assign tiers, retrieve boards. The documentation shows a curl example for POST https://votefirst.app/api/vote.
• Webhooks & changelog — Send real-time vote-change events to Slack, Linear, or your own systems, and auto-generate a changelog from completed features with email notifications to requesting users.
• Value Score reporting — See the total MRR of customers requesting each feature, filtered by segment (Enterprise, Growth, Starter), e.g., "SSO integration: $4,350 MRR, top segment Enterprise."
• Feedback boards with categories — Let users submit ideas and vote; organize by labels like UX, Integrations, Performance, and moderate suggested features before they appear.

Who is it for?

• SaaS founders — Prioritize the roadmap by live customer MRR instead of the loudest free users, so every build decision is tied to revenue.
• Product managers — Use Demand Score and Priority to evaluate feature proposals with effort estimates, and publish a transparent roadmap that stakeholders can see.
• Customer success teams — See which paying customers are behind which feature requests, and close the loop with changelog notifications when requests ship.

What can you do with VoteFirst?

• Collect feedback: Launch a public voting board on your domain where customers submit ideas, vote, and comment; no account required for visitors if you configure it that way.
• Prioritize by revenue: Connect Stripe or Paddle so every vote is weighted by the customer's live MRR; drag features into a revenue-ranked roadmap with columns like Under Review, Planned, In Progress, Done.
• Automate your roadmap: Use the REST API and webhooks to record votes from inside your app, sync customer tiers, and push updates to Slack or Linear.
• Share progress: Auto-generate a changelog from completed features and email the users who asked for them, building trust with every release.

How does VoteFirst work?

VoteFirst connects to your Stripe or Paddle account to retrieve the live MRR of every voter. When a customer votes, comments, or views a feature, the platform calculates a weighted score: 3 points per vote, 2 per comment, 0.1 per view, then multiplies by the customer's tier multiplier. You also assign an effort estimate (S, M, L), and VoteFirst computes a Priority score (demand ÷ effort) to sort the roadmap.

Pricing

VoteFirst offers a 30-day free trial with no per-seat pricing; cancel anytime. The Lite plan is $9 per month (currently $4.50 with a 50% founding offer) and covers 2 projects, 2 roadmaps per project, weighted voting, demand/effort/priority, and no API access. The Pro plan is $39 per month (currently $19.50) and adds unlimited projects, team management, full API access, custom domain, and priority support. Start your free trial or try the live demo.

Alternatives

VoteFirst is an alternative to Canny, Productboard, and UserVoice. See the full comparison of "VoteFirst vs Canny, Productboard, UserVoice, and 9 other feature voting platforms" on the site.

FAQ

Can my customers vote without creating an account?

Yes. You can configure your voting board so visitors can submit and vote on ideas without signing up. If you prefer authenticated voting, VoteFirst also supports email-based identification and SSO.

How do I set up a public roadmap?

Your first roadmap is public by default and cannot be made private. Drag features into columns like Suggested, In Progress, Completed; the roadmap is live immediately on your custom domain or VoteFirst subdomain, styled with your brand colors.

What integrations does VoteFirst support?

VoteFirst provides a full REST API and webhooks, so you can integrate with any tool in your stack. The API lets you create projects, manage features, cast votes, and retrieve analytics; webhooks push updates to Slack, Linear, or your own systems.

How does pricing work?

Plans start with a 30-day free trial. Lite is $9/mo and Pro is $39/mo, with a 50% founding discount currently making them $4.50/mo and $19.50/mo. No per-seat pricing; cancel anytime.