Goosly is a free, simple roadmap tool for build-in-public projects. It allows you to style, embed and share project and product plans with a community, in the form of a roadmap that can be duplicated, used and shared for free.
Hey Product Hunt folk 👋
I'm Biro, co-founder at Jexo, the makers of Goosly, and I'm hyped about our launch on Product Hunt 🎊 Our new app is an intuitive and super fast way to sketch a plan using a timeline. You can plan an open source product, keep track of your crypto project or communicate your #buildinpublic progress. And the tool is entirely free to use.
Why we built it
In the past, no matter how many planning tools I had available, I would always go back to sketching on a piece of paper or a whiteboard when I needed to capture a timeline of events quickly; be it draft execution strategies at work or brainstorming organizing an event.
Planning tools are jam-packed with configuration steps that take time to untangle and require a certain working method. But most of the time all we need is a quick way to sketch what we're thinking and that's why we built Goosly. It enables you to sketch your plans, customize them and share quickly.
How it works
👉 All you have to do is create a free account then:
👉 Create a new roadmap page
👉 Start drawing your activities
👉 Write some context to describe your plan
👉 Give it a name and personality with custom styling
👉 Publish and share it by email or publicly
What it does
🔥 Create an unlimited number of roadmap pages, for free
🔥 Create timeline rows to group your activities
🔥 Generate custom colors for groups or individual items
🔥 Use emojis as visual indicators or to indicate status
🔥 Use it in either dark or light mode
🔥 Work with zoom levels to plan, from daily to quarterly and yearly
🔥 Add rich text to activities and the content area; use tables, lists, and images
🔥 Style your page with background colors and Unsplash images
🔥 Give roadmap pages titles and subtitles
🔥 Make pages private, have them unlisted or public
🔥 Invite collaborators to update your plans
🔥 Use the Discover section to find useful templates and roadmaps
🔥 Copy and rebase existing timeline plans
🔥 Embed plans in your website or documentation systems
Why it’s free
Goosly has a sibling called Swanly. Swanly is Jexo's most successful Jira app for planning and tracking issues on a timeline view. It has a lot of bells and whistles, and it's what generates a good portion of our current revenue. Goosly has the same roadmap timeline engine as Swanly does, but we built a different product around it, a simpler solution for the less savvy user.
What does this mean, actually? We’re not in a rush to monetize Goosly because we generate revenue from Swanly and our other Atlassian paid apps. And sharing the same feature means less overhead in development for Goosly.
Future plans.
The product has a lot of potential, and we plan to continue improving the experience and value that it adds to your life. Some of the upcoming improvements include making it even faster for creating plans, improving usability at the day-level activities, a better text editor, more filters, and so on.
The core roadmap feature will stay free forever, without limitations. We do have plans to extend the value of Goosly by adding integrations with other tools, team-level functionality, and more advanced work planning features under a paid plan.
So give it a try and join our Discord community for feedback and to chat about anything related to roadmaps. https://discord.gg/keDUSrHCUF
@nikkielizdemere that's a great question! Some super fit use cases so far: build-in-public startups, crypto projects, open-source software, showing feature development plans for your product
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Thanks @Biro to invite me to be part of the livestream for this great product launch. We are live soon
It's been great using the product for the last 3 weeks ... so enjoy!
Looks cool! I will definitely use it:blush:
Do you plan to develop other free and simple tools? Maybe for building graphs and diagrams?
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@mykhailo_marshalok we have a few Jira Cloud adons that are free for up to 10 users!
Diagraming sounds interesting @chris_cooke what do you think?
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This seems like a really cool roadmap tool and I love it is free!
UI is really intuitive and is packed with tons of features.
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@andressotomayor thank you! 🙏 most recent ui improvement was adding emojis to the activities. Which is actually a great way to easily communicate statuses like done in progress or not started 🚀
Hey !! Cool stuff :) How did you make the video please? 🙏 Launching soon and really like your video !
Also, we're looking for a good public building tool.
Our need?
- let users report needs
- let users upvote
- let users comment on needs
- let us tag needs
cheers and great work !
@patricia_bsc_kairn I appreciate the comment. We have a team member that does animations. Thanks for the feedback, some of your feedback will make it in the product
A big reason we use Trello is that people can comment and vote on cards so our roadmap is a bit more democratized in the sense we know what to prioritize based on what's in our backlog. Can people vote/comment on things?
@marchesejack good point. This will be available soon
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Absolutely love being able to create such an amazing roadmap. Great for planning big or even smaller projects in detail, I would recommend it to any team.
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@tiaan_joubert thank you! You can also easily share your plan outside your team by making roadmap unlisted or public. Easy way to keep track of main milestones for smaller cross organisational projects 👏
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