Upvora is the feedback portal you'd build for yourself if you had a spare month: a dark-first, dense, modern UI on top of a battle-tested Go + React engine (Fider). Visitors post ideas, vote, and follow every decision through to a public roadmap. Your team triages with drag-and-drop, deliberates in a private layer no visitor ever sees, and scores candidates on a fully custom scorecard. It runs anywhere Docker runs, with a Postgres database as the only dependency, and once it's up, it updates itself from the admin panel.
If you're comparing Canny, UserVoice, Featurebase, Astuto, or Fider itself and want something open-source, self-hosted, and genuinely pretty, this is it.
What you get
🗳️ A feedback board people actually use
Dense, fast, dark-first board with one-click voting straight from the list, optimistic UI, powerful sort tabs (Trending / Most Wanted / Most Discussed / Recent), full-text search with similar-idea detection at post time, tag filters with counts, and rich-text and markdown commenting. Every status gets your color, your name, your rules, including which ones appear on the home page.
📦 Multi-product, single portal
Run every product you own from one place. Products are a lens, not a wall: one member list, one workflow, but every idea carries an ink-bordered product chip, every product gets its own public board at /p/your-product, and every view (board, roadmap, scorecard) filters to any combination of products with shareable ?products= URLs. Unassigned ideas land in a General bucket, never lost.
🗺️ A roadmap worth linking to
Status lanes with per-lane counts, search, tag + product filters as toggle chips, inline voting on cards, and for your team, drag a card between lanes to restatus it. "What's planned?" becomes a URL you paste, not a meeting.
🎯 Prioritization scorecard (team-only)
A committee-style scoring workspace visitors never see: define your own scoring dimensions and your own form fields (nine field types), score candidate ideas against weighted criteria, and read the verdict off an SVG progress ring with your thresholds marked on it. Linked to board ideas, so scores follow the idea.
🔒 Internal notes & comments
The deliberation layer feedback tools forget: internal comments sit inline in the discussion but are visible only to collaborators, excluded from public counts, never emailed to voters. Plus one shared internal note per idea, live-synced between the idea page and the scorecard. Amber-flagged everywhere so nobody mistakes private for public.
📎 Files on ideas, viewed in the board
Besides screenshots, ideas can carry PDF, text and Markdown files (Admin, General; up to 3 attachments, 5 MB each). They open right in the board: PDFs drawn page by page with pdf.js, Markdown through the same sanitizer as descriptions. Every file is checked by its content; every PDF is fully parsed and refused if it holds scripts, launch or form-submit actions, embedded files, XFA forms, multimedia or encryption, and what's stored is the re-written document that was checked. Files are served only to people who can see the idea, with a sandbox that lets nothing run.
🕶️ Private ideas
Sometimes an idea shouldn't be public. Collaborators and admins can mark any idea private (at creation, or with a one-click toggle on an existing one) and it disappears for everyone else on every surface: the board, all lists, search, the roadmap, the RSS feed, the REST API, status/product counts, and notifications. Optionally let members submit private ideas too: only the author and your team can see them, and the author can publish one later (never the reverse). Your team sees an amber "Private" badge wherever one appears, and a filter to show only private ideas.
🎨 Theme studio
Your brand color and four per-function accents (buttons, votes, links, header) applied as design tokens across light and dark mode: set once in the admin, survives every redesign. Default appearance per site (light / dark / follow system), per-product colors, and raw custom CSS still available for everything else.
🔄 One-click updates
A System panel under the admin menu shows your installed version against the latest GitHub release (checked daily, re-check on demand) and, with the bundled updater sidecar, updates your instance from the browser. No SSH, no runbook, and the recovery steps are printed right on the panel for the day something goes wrong.
✦ Vora: an AI ideation agent (optional)
Turn rough thoughts into well-planned ideas: Vora interviews the submitter in chat, then drafts the title, a summary description, suggested tags, and a full Idea Brief, a structured plan saved with the post. Everything is reviewed and editable before submitting. Bring your own provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including a local LLM on your own network) with per-product interview instructions, admin-viewable conversation transcripts, and strict email privacy (the submitter's address is stored only as a token, never rendered to any browser). Optionally give Vora web search (Serper.dev or a self-hosted SearXNG) so it grounds ideas in current information when your instructions call for it. Off by default; one switch to enable. Want every idea to arrive well formed? Turn on Require Vora and the board's form starts with Vora for everyone (assistants over MCP and API-key integrations can still submit directly).
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