Shipnotes is the self-hosted Canny alternative: a public changelog, a public roadmap board, and a feature-request voting board with comments — all in one Node app backed by one SQLite file. Canny charges $79/month ($948/yr) per workspace for this; Shipnotes is $49 once and pays for itself in 19 days.

• Public changelog: Markdown posts tagged New/Improved/Fixed, published with one click, valid RSS 2.0 feed
• Roadmap board: Planned / In Progress / Shipped columns sorted by votes
• Feature requests: visitors submit and upvote with no account (one vote per visitor), comment threads included
• Moderation: approve, merge duplicates (votes carry over, deduped), or decline with a public reason
• Email subscribers via your own SMTP — publishing a post emails everyone with one-click unsubscribe
• Embeddable “What’s new” widget: one script tag adds a bell with an unread badge and latest-posts dropdown to any site
• Dark, fast, keyboard-friendly admin dashboard
• One SQLite file — trivial backups, zero telemetry

Runs as a Windows desktop app or on a $5 VPS (Docker included).

What’s included:

• Windows installer download (build via npm run dist)
• Full source access — https://github.com/bensblueprints/changelog-roadmap (MIT)
• Lifetime v1 updates
• Setup guide (README quick start)
• Premium tiers coming later