What was read
7 companies placed; 2 read during October 2026.
- CannySep 30, 2026
- FeaturebaseSep 30, 2026
- FrillSep 30, 2026
- UserVoiceSep 30, 2026
- NoltSep 30, 2026
- Feedback boards nobody acts onSep 30, 2026
- Indie SaaS founders collecting requestsSep 30, 2026
Gaps closed and opened
5 themes were raised about two or more of 7 read companies; 1 shares no word with anything a company declares. Against the previous month: 4 gaps opened and 0 closed (0 now share a word with a declared capability, 0 no longer raised about two companies). Themes are compared by their words, so a theme the reading reworded counts as one closed and one opened.
- Opened · 4
- Billing, fees and cancellation, Free tier, trial and paywalled features, Interface and design, Usage limits and caps
- Now answered in the declared names · 0
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- No longer raised about two companies · 0
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- ● Price levelraised about 7 of 7
- ◌ Usage limits and capsraised about 4 of 7 · no declared match
- ◌ Billing, fees and cancellationraised about 2 of 7 · no declared match
- ◌ Free tier, trial and paywalled featuresraised about 2 of 7 · no declared match
- ◌ Interface and designraised about 2 of 7 · no declared match
Who entered
0 companies placed; 6 products sighted by a search and not yet read (ProductLift, Loopful, Quackback, UserJot, Features.Vote, Featurevote).
Pricing moves
5 of 7 read companies have a pricing entry on record; none recorded a pricing change this month.
- Feedback boards nobody acts on [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Baseline: Canny's pricing is reported by third parties as scaling with tracked users — one comparison cites Canny Core starting around $24/month for 100 tracked users and rising to $156 at 500 users, while another source states Canny's Pro plan runs from about $79/month at 100 users up to $829/month at 2,500 users. source
- Canny [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Canny's own billing help article states that as of June 2026 it offers three plans — Free, Pro, and Business — and that users who signed up for the prior Starter and Growth tiers before May 9, 2025 are grandfathered in. source
- Featurebase [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Featurebase's current plans are Free ($0/mo, 1 seat), Growth ($29/seat/mo billed yearly), Professional ($59/seat/mo billed yearly, plus 20 free Lite seats), and Enterprise ($99/seat/mo billed yearly, plus 50 free Lite seats), with every paid tier carrying a separate $0.49-per-AI-resolution charge and a $69/month add-on to remove Featurebase branding. source
- Frill [COMPANY CLAIM] Sep 30, 2026Frill's homepage states pricing starts at $25/month, with unlimited widgets included on every paid plan and no per-widget surcharge. source
- Nolt [FACT] Sep 30, 2026Nolt's current pricing page shows flat, per-board pricing with all plans including unlimited users, content, and admins, and an Essential plan at $29/month billed annually. source
What users raised
22 themes raised by users; the most raised: Price level (7 of 7), Usage limits and caps (4 of 7), Billing, fees and cancellation (2 of 7).
- Price level 7/7
- Usage limits and caps 4/7
- Billing, fees and cancellation 2/7
- Free tier, trial and paywalled features 2/7
- Interface and design 2/7
- Accuracy and output quality 1/7
- Customization and branding 1/7
- duplicate submissions 1/7
- fragmented requests across channels 1/7
- Integrations and API 1/7
- Limited AI features (duplicate detection, clustering) 1/7
- lost/forgotten email feedback 1/7
- missing localization/anonymous voting 1/7
- No embeddable in-app widget 1/7
- no self-hosting or data-residency option 1/7
- noise and duplicate requests 1/7
- popularity/snowball bias in voting 1/7
- Price increases 1/7
- Privacy and security 1/7
- Product perceived as slow-moving / easy to outgrow 1/7
- requests get buried without a single system of record 1/7
- votes lack context (who/when) 1/7
Funding by quarter
0 rounds recorded across 2 read quarters; sums are floors per currency and per tag, never combined.
- 2025-Q1not read
- 2025-Q2not read
- 2025-Q3not read
- 2025-Q4not read
- 2026-Q1not read
- 2026-Q2not read
- 2026-Q30 rounds
- 2026-Q40 rounds
The ledger this month
2 observed claims recorded this month.
- PRODUCT · 2
How big this market is, as its publishers state it
No market-size figure has been recorded for this level yet. Not read is not zero.
Research-house estimates for this sector, carried side by side under each house’s own name. Estimates of one market can differ several-fold; none is averaged, and none is Forge’s.
No publisher is named for this level yet, so there is nothing to read from. Publishers are authored in the taxonomy and arrive with a deploy.