If a user asks what you’re building next, “somewhere in Discord” is not a great answer.
That is the problem Maplan is built to fix.
For small teams, a public roadmap is not theatre. It is a way to:
- show what you are exploring, building, and shipping,
- give users one place to check before they ask again, and
- stop repeating the same roadmap answer in email, chat, and DMs.
Why we built it
Most roadmap tools are either too expensive, too bloated, or too far from the way indie teams actually work.
You get feedback in messy places. Support emails. Discord threads. X replies. A note you sent yourself at 1am. Then someone asks for a roadmap, and suddenly you need a polished answer for a process that barely fits together behind the scenes.
Maplan keeps that loop in one place:
- feedback comes in,
- ideas get grouped,
- roadmap items go public, and
- shipped work lands in the changelog.
Simple. Which is rarer than it should be.
Built for UK and EU teams
If you are serving users in the UK or EU, feedback data is not a detail you can hand-wave away.
GDPR matters. Where the data lives matters. And for a lot of small teams, the default answer from bigger tools is still “trust us, it is complicated.”
Maplan takes the more useful route: keep it clear, keep it EU-hosted, and make the public feedback loop easier to run.
The point of a public roadmap
A good roadmap does not promise everything. It gives users a truthful view of what is being considered, what is planned, and what has shipped.
That means fewer vague replies, fewer duplicated requests, and better conversations with the people already using your product.
If you build in public, your roadmap should live in public too.