Featurely - An all-in-one application for indie developers
Hi Product Hunt!
I’m incredibly excited (and a bit nervous) to finally share Featurely with you all, this is a tool I created for myself and added tools as I found out what I needed for it. I hope that some of you can benefit from it as well!
The story behind it: I built Featurely out what I needed myself. As an indie developer, I realized that it was hard to find tools that did everything I needed them to do, without costing a fortune. It started out as a feature request and bug reporting tool (therefor the name Featurely) that I could use and implement directly into my own projects. In the beginning it was also meant to be a free product just for this purpose.
As I went along in the building of Featurely and other products, I quickly noticed that I was lacking a way to catch and track errors that my customers experienced. So I added error tracking into Featurely that catches errors, sends them to Featurely and then notifies me by e-mail.
After that the ball just started rolling and now Featurely can do so much more than it was intended to do, I have created and all-in-one application that gathers feedback, errors, event logs, can manage environments, translations, feature A/B testing, checks my dependencies for updates and CVE and scans my site for potentials security risks.
I am not saying that it does any of these better than the tools that just to that single thing, but it is good enough and what it does it do well. It works for me and I think that for several indie developers this could be a good solution instead of juggling several apps and subscriptions.
The application is hosted by Vercel with an EU based database.
I need your help: I’m building this for people like us, which means I need your most brutal, honest feedback. Tell me what you love, what you hate, and what’s missing. If you like to test a demo there is a full demo on Featurely, no sign-in required and all features included. The demo resets every 12 hours so just play along with it.
Public board to Featurely: https://www.featurely.no/projects/iGBUmKRzcovPHJAP1Z6Y
ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/featurely-3?launch=featurely-3
The application is launching on Product Hunt May 12th.
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Hi everyone!
I got some feedback on that the application was a little hard to get to know, I have therefor added a spotlight tour that plays the first time you use the application. For the demo account it will play per browser, but if you are logged in it will stay in sync with your user account.
This spotlight will show you how to navigate the most important features. It will also give you a tour of the features the first the you visit them, meaning that the first tour is kept as short as possible with short introduction to each tool afterwards.
I have also updated the analytics page with settings to blacklist / whitelist both users and url's. This eliminates tracking your own movement on your own page, or stop tracking eg /settings etc. The analytics page have also gotten a new "today" filter and better KPI cards with more details when clicked.
Webhooks have been added to features, bugs, errors and uptime monitoring allowing you to get notified in for example your own Discord channel should you choose so. This is a very easy way to get notifications from the system and opens up for new possibilities.
I have also added an inboard chat feature to communicate with your team members or just to get in contact with me. This was created to allow for easy communication between you and my as the developer.
The last thing was an oversight as there was no way to exit the demo and go back to the dashboard without altering the url or just the back button. This is changed now and a "Exit demo" button is shown in the sidebar.
Let me know what you think!