I just started up a small online community, and I want to take advantage of the
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Question
I just started up a small online community, and I want to take advantage of the small and loyal userbase to influence the direction of the site I made.
I know of quite a number of apps and sites that can be used to coordinate between remote developers, but I'm looking for something of a list that my users can access where they can request whatever feature they want added/changed/removed. Preferably I would be able to "green light" or "red light" any suggestions and leave a comment explaining why something is a good idea/bad idea, or how long it will take to implement.
The reason for such an app or site is to reduce the amount of email I receive requesting changes, since many suggestions overlap. Does any of this sound familiar? Thanks a bunch.
Explanation / Answer
You could try Trello. Either you do it like they do it themselves and have a board were you put up suggestions that you receive via email and then your users can vote and/or leave comments but not create new proposals
Trello also support emailing new card directly to a board so you could possibly set up some mail-proxy that creates a new card for all incoming suggestions on some "idea-board".
Or you could just create a trello board and invite everyone to edit everything on it if there aren't that many people.