Productlane combines user feedback management with customer support so you can close the loop on everything and build well-crafted products. Local-first and built on Linear.
Hey Producthunt Community,
We’re excited to be back two years after our launch with a huge new release! Our product has matured, our team has grown, and we got amazing customers like Clerk, Mintlify, Inngest, and countless others who helped us improve Productlane daily with their feedback. Thank you so much for believing in us!
And today, we’re taking a huge next step.
🌟 Announcing Productlane 2.0: User feedback meets customer support.
We're combining user feedback management with customer support to turn Productlane into the fastest and most enjoyable support platform for B2B companies.
🌟 The backstory
We started Productlane to help you make your Linear roadmap public, host a beautiful changelog, and manage all user feedback in one place.
By adding video uploads, transcripts, a call recorder and an editor to link highlights to Linear issues, we built the most powerful solution for startups on Linear to handle every kind of user feedback.
But over time, we witnessed something.
As a startup scales, most feedback no longer comes from user interviews or sales calls anymore. As soon as you have users, 80% of the feedback comes through your support tool.
The problem: Today’s support tools aren’t built for product feedback; they are built to answer customer questions and focus on AI Features to help you answer even more questions.
But especially in B2B, many of your support queries contain feature requests or bug reports where AI won’t help, and you don’t want to let a chatbot handle a really important customer.
Using traditional support tools for B2B leads to a subpar experience, lost user feedback, loops not being closed, CS not knowing when a feature ships, and ultimately, shipping the wrong features.
We are building the tool to solve that.
The first customer support tool that helps you manage product feedback. Tightly integrated with Linear, API-first, lightning-fast, and enjoyable to use.
We already shipped a shared inbox for emails and Slack connect channels, and today, we're releasing our new widget and a customizable data sidebar that kicks off our support feature set.
We're super excited to show this to the world today and are looking forward to your feedback!
🌟 Features
1. 💬 Unified widget for your feedback, changelog, and support
Capture feedback or bug reports and announce new updates from one widget.
2. 💌 Shared inbox for emails and Slack connect
Centralize all feedback and support requests in Productlane to close the loop for every feedback.
3. 📝 Feedback hub
A highlight editor on each conversation to link certain parts of a conversation to Linear. For longer feedback from sales calls, interview notes, or survey results.
4. 🗺️ Public Roadmap and Changelog
Publish your Linear projects, initiatives, and issues to get more feedback and engage your users. Turn Linear issues into a changelog quickly.
5. 📣 Custom data sidebar
Display all context from your database right next to the customer conversation. This can be activation milestones, their plan, and much more.
🌟 What's different
1. 📝 Made for feedback with a highlight editor
On top of every conversation, you can enable a highlight editor for longer messages with multiple requests. This allows you to connect only certain parts of the conversation with a Linear issue, making it much faster for the product team to understand the context or even see the call recording of an issue.
2. 🤝 Linear integration
Sync not only issues but also projects, their icons, initiatives, due dates, and more. Combining issue tracker data with support will enable you to track completely new metrics like “time from request to shipped” and give your support team and customers more visibility into the status of requests.
3. 🔄 Sync engine
Introducing the first support tool with a sync engine. In the last two years, we rebuilt the entire codebase on a sync engine that processes all data in the Browser, making it faster than 50ms and giving it the feel of a native app.
4. 🔋 Powerful API
With our new data sidebar, display the exact customer data you need from your database next to each conversation in a focused and beautiful way. Access all parts of Productlane through our API.
5. 🎨 Enjoyable to use
Most support tools become clunky over time to serve all kinds of enterprise needs. Quickly, you’ll end up with endless custom fields, and nobody will understand how to use them anymore. We prevent building things like custom fields and want to find more opinionated and focused ways to solve your needs.
🌟 Our vision
We want to build the fastest and most enjoyable support experience you can imagine. While bringing user feedback really close to your product team, we also help you ship well-crafted products that truly meet your users’ needs.
We have a long journey ahead of us, and we’re super excited to build the future of customer support with you.
Congrats on the launch of Productlane! Seamlessly integrating user feedback with customer support is a fantastic way to ensure every detail is addressed—this approach is sure to elevate product development!
@vietpham thank you for your support! And yes, a great deal of customer support conversations are actually feature requests - super important to bring support and product together here! 🙌
Productlane user since day one here. At @beams we love the Linear integration to turn customer feedback directly into tickets. And recently we also started using the email integration, so we can all track and engage in support communication.
Amazing to see the continuous evolution and progress of this amazing tool! I've been a user of ProductLane since it's very early days. I'm eager to see what comes next! 🔥
We love Productlane at Flightcontrol
We are using Productlane for our public roadmap, changelog and finally as a way to collect user feedback. We have been using Productlane since Day 1, and it is part of how we service our customers.
Congratulations on launching Productlane 2.0, Jeremie! 🎉 The integration of user feedback management with customer support is a smart move, especially for B2B companies looking to streamline their processes. Channels sounds incredibly useful for identifying patterns in feedback before they escalate, and Ask Dovetail’s seamless integration with Slack and Teams will make accessing insights so much easier for teams on the go. Recruit is a standout feature too, making it effortless to find and manage research participants. The new calendar integrations and automated analysis tools are going to save so much time, allowing teams to focus on actionable insights rather than data processing. Plus, the redesigned interface looks sleek and user-friendly. Excited to dive into Productlane 2.0 and see how it can enhance our approach to customer insights and support. Great work to you and the entire Productlane team!⬤
We are avid users of Linear, and Productlane was a gamechanger for us in exposing our roadmap and collecting user feedback. Recent new features makes it ever more powerful, keep doing great work, @fleckensteyn !
I'm a daily user of Productlane and very excited for these new features! Especially, the support widget gets my attention and we are going to discover that immediately.
I've been a Productlane user since day one and have seen firsthand how the product has matured. It has become a 10x tool for user/feedback driven development for any team and I can't imagine building a product without it.
It is also very clear that the Productlane team, and Raphael in particular, take their user-centric approach to heart. I have rarely seen anyone as committed to their users as Raphael and the whole team. Any feedback you give them will be considered.
Much love and a lot of success!
@eimenhmdt thank you so much for the product-love and feedback! Makes us super happy to hear Productlane has such a great impact on how you build products! 🙌
We use productlane for more than a year now. Three product owners work there on a daily basis. Quite an important tool for us as we can collect and cluster 1000s of customer feedback.
Using Productlane since the early stages has shown us how much value this product adds to our stack. With a constant influx of customer feedback, Productlane helps us analyze, understand, and act on it. It pairs nicely with Linear for project planning. It's a must-have, and the team is very cool!
@pierre_colson1 you're almost part of the team, your ongoing feedback and support have helped us a lot in making Productlane better every day! Thank you 🙌
Caught my eye since the early days with your auto changelog feature. Any plans to expand beyond Linear integrations, or is the majority of the market on Linear now?
@nicolas_machado great to hear, thanks for your support so far! 🙌 we do indeed plan to expand our support here, what would be the main integration that your looking for right now?
Can't recommend Productlane enough. If you're a startup who cares about your customers and want to solve real problems, Productlane will make the infinitely more attainable. Give these guys a try - you won't regret it!
Awesome to see how Productlane is getting better and better! Couldn't think of a better tool for startups to go from feedback to full support tool. Keep shipping 🚢
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