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Loudbox
Collect feedback, rank requests and publish a roadmap on your own terms
- Score
- 52
- confidence 53
- Evidence
- 5
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 3
- named in sources
- First version
- 30 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2008
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Product managers merge duplicate requests, set status, and manage roadmap planning—sustained content curation and planning work. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Feedback board
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About this appAI proposal
Loudbox gives product teams a feedback board, a request tracker and a public roadmap in one installable web app. Customers post ideas and vote. Your team merges duplicates, sets status and publishes what is planned, in progress and shipped.
It is built for product managers at software companies who want their feedback data in their own database. Export everything at any time, connect your own domain, and keep the data where your policies say it should live.
Unlike hosted boards that charge by seat or by feature, Loudbox is meant to be priced flat, with a managed option for teams that do not want to run it. Self-hosting is the default, not an afterthought.
- Tagline
- Hear your customers. Keep your data.
- Voice
- PlainOpenPractical
- Why this name
- Customers speak up, and Loudbox is the box that holds what they say. Two plain words joined, easy to say and spell.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Public feedback board
Customers submit ideas, search for similar ones and vote. Sign-in by email link, so no account setup is needed.
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Duplicate merging
Combine similar requests into one. Votes and comments carry over, so counts stay honest.
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Public roadmap
Publish Planned, In progress and Shipped columns on your own domain. Hide any item you are not ready to share.
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Status update emails
When a request changes status, everyone who voted gets a short email. Closing the loop takes one click.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Hear your customers. Keep your data.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. These tiers are a starting point to test, built on the idea of flat pricing instead of per-seat or per-feature fees.
Self-host
Free
- Run on your own server
- Unlimited users and posts
- Full data export
Managed
$49 a month
- We host and update it
- Custom domain
- Daily backups
- Unlimited team seats
Commercial
$990 a year
- Commercial license
- Priority support
- Setup help
- SSO and integrations
Would you pay Managed · $49 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Teams publish a public feedback board and roadmap. Customers who vote and read it see a small 'Powered by Loudbox' link, which paid tiers can remove.
- Do they become customers?
- Voters are customers of other software companies, and some are product managers who could become buyers. This needs testing: how many board visitors click through and start a trial.
- First customers
- Product managers at small B2B software companies, 5 to 50 staff, who already run a hosted feedback board and care about owning their data.
- Where to reach them
- GitHub and open-source communities: Publish a clear install guide and a Canny import tool, then answer questions in related repositories and discussions.
- Product management forums: Share a short guide on moving off per-seat feedback tools, with a sample public roadmap.
- First milestone
- Ten teams run a live public board, and three of them pay for Managed or Commercial within 60 days.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 310 stars in 312 days
- Public claimQuackback positions itself as an open-source alternative to established feedback and roadmap platforms.
- VerifiedProductboard sells paid plans with prices on request, on its own pricing page, plus prices on request for larger customers
- Public claimProductboard states on its own website: Trusted by Fortune 500 and high-growth companies
- Verified
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Background jobsQueue for emails and digestsStatus update emails to many voters should not slow down the request.
- This app · SearchPostgres full-text searchSuggests similar requests while a customer types, to cut duplicates.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialAn open-source project with GitHub traction already targets this space. Loudbox must stand out on setup ease or a managed option, and free self-hosters may never pay.
- TechnicalSupporting self-hosted installs across many environments creates support load that can outgrow a small team.
- DataStoring customer emails and votes brings privacy duties, and self-hosting shifts some but not all of them onto the buyer.
- CommercialTeams using Canny, UserVoice or Productboard may stay for their integrations and polish, so import tools and key connectors are needed.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.