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Thoughts on making your roadmap public?

There are a couple of comapnies that have decided to make their roadmap public. I've always thought this was a great idea but I could see how this could affect you competitively.

Here is buffer
https://trello.com/b/PDIV7XW3/buffer-transparent-product-roadmap

Front Public Roadmap
https://trello.com/b/kZsVVrc8/front-product-roadmap

Unreal Engine
https://trello.com/b/TTAVI7Ny/ue4-roadmap

Has anyone tested with this? Do you visit any company roadmaps? Do you like it? is it risky?

on December 30, 2019
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    @arvidkahl had an interesting discussion about this on Twitter the other day: https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1209290856169136130

    I have to admit I'm on the fence and flip back & forth between sharing publicly or only with paying customers. I'm not sure where I'll land. I do think sharing changelog and roadmap with paying customers is the minimum since customers want to see ongoing progress.

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      Thanks for the response. I’ll be testing this with my current customers and see what we new ways we can improve the experience. What tools do you use?

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        Please let us know how your customers responded to it - and if/how it changed your roadmap :D

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        I ended up rolling my own solution.

        I wanted:
        1.) No double entry
        2.) Integration on my site; not sending users to a third party off my site just to see it.

        https://www.indiehackers.com/post/automated-changelog-ce5473878e