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chroxify/feedbase
The open-source solution for collecting feedback & communicating updates.
Feedbase is a self-hostable feedback board and changelog tool — think Canny or Beamer but open-source. It's aimed at indie developers and small product teams who want to own their user feedback data without paying $50/month for a SaaS. Built on Next.js + Supabase + Vercel, so the deployment path is straightforward if you're already in that ecosystem.
The Turborepo monorepo structure is well-organized — separate apps for the public hub, dashboard, and docs, with a shared client package that could support future SDKs. Supabase handles auth, real-time, and storage in one dependency instead of three, which is the right call for a project at this scale. The public hub theming system (custom colors, domains, SSO) is more complete than you'd expect from 671 stars — it's not just a demo. The Tinybird integration for analytics is a nice choice; offloading time-series event data to a purpose-built pipe is smarter than cramming it into Postgres.
Last commit was January 2025 and the roadmap items (roadmaps, GitHub/Linear integrations, blog management) are still unchecked — this project looks effectively stalled. The README still uses banned marketing language from the template and the self-hosting docs link to an external site that may or may not still exist. No test files anywhere in the tree, which for a product handling user feedback data is a real problem when you need to trust the upvote deduplication or auth middleware. AGPL license is load-bearing: if you embed this in a commercial SaaS, your whole codebase is in scope — many teams discover this after the fact.