Publish your roadmap

Make Linear projects and issues public for your users to vote or give feedback on. You can only publish Linear issues and projects, nothing else. That way, your users know that everything on there is really visible for engineers and can be acted upon. Every project and issue you see in Productlane, is completely synced with Linear. It's as simple as that, no double synching or manually pushing updates, it's all seamlessly connected.

Pro tip: You will get a lot more feedback if you link your portal very prominently within your application.

Projects

Every new project you create in Linear, will automatically appear in the "Pending projects" section, from where you can decide to hide or publish it on your portal. We recommend creating a project for feature ideas that take more than 2 weeks and include multiple people to build it.

Status group ordering

Projects on your public roadmap are grouped by status (e.g., Backlog, Planned, In Progress, Done). The order of these status groups automatically matches the custom project-status order you have configured in Linear. If you rearrange your project statuses in Linear, the roadmap will reflect the new order.

Mimic Linear sorting

When you enable the Mimic Linear sorting option for project ordering on your public roadmap, the sort order is synced from Linear's project list view (the drag order), not the timeline view.

Tip: If you have Group setting selected like Group by Initiative in your Linear project list view, recently added projects may appear out of expected order on your public roadmap. To fix this, ungroup your project list in Linear and manually re-sort the projects into the order you want. The updated order will then be reflected on your public roadmap.

Issues

You can also publish issues on your roadmap, by using the "Add issues" button on the top right. In Productlane, you only see issues that you have added manually or that you linked in a note. But every issue you see in Productlane, exists in Linear.

If you're scared to clutter your Linear or confuse engineers with ideas, we recommend creating a "Feature request" team in Linear.

Beta status

You can now turn the upvote button on your feedback portal into a "Get beta access" button so customers can request access easily. Clicking it creates a message from that user that you can answer manually or automate via the API. Just open a Linear project in Productlane and press the "Beta" switch to make that button appear.

Upvote context

Written feedback is more valuable than a simple upvote. After users upvote on the feedback portal, they now see an input field to add context. We also made the portal animations feel smoother.

How upvote counts work

The upvote count shown on issues and projects reflects the number of unique contacts who have provided feedback or upvoted, not the total number of feedback entries. If the same contact submits multiple pieces of feedback for the same issue or project, they are only counted once. Anonymous feedback entries (those without a linked contact) are still counted individually.

This means the count gives you an accurate picture of how many distinct people care about a feature, rather than being inflated by duplicate submissions from the same person.