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Self-hosted alternatives to Headway

Headway is a changelog tool that publishes product updates on a public page and in an in-product widget. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.

Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Headway describes on its own site.

  • openheard public board with trending posts, vote counts and statuses, and board and roadmap counts in the sidebar

    Feedback board, public roadmap and changelog for your product, in one Worker with D1, KV and R2

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    CLI
    License
    AGPL-3.0
    GitHub stars
    173 stars
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Headway features, app by app

Featureopenheard
Public changelog pageYes
In-product widgetYes
Branding and own domainPartly
Slack and Twitter integrationsPartly
Scheduled publishingNo
Private changelog and bot controlsPartly

Feedback board, public roadmap and changelog for your product, in one Worker with D1, KV and R2

What a Headway user would miss
Scheduled publishing, categories and a Twitter integration.
What it adds
One Worker with D1, KV and R2 in your account, plus a help center and MCP server.
  • Yes Public changelog page. Changelog with entries linked to shipped posts, RSS and email.
  • Yes In-product widget. Widget tab with a new-release badge.
  • Partly Branding and own domain. Accent color, logo and board name, hosted on the origin you deploy on.
  • Partly Slack and Twitter integrations. Slack and Discord alerts when a changelog entry is published; no Twitter.
  • No Scheduled publishing. Not found in the README or source.
  • Partly Private changelog and bot controls. The changelog tab can be hidden or put behind Cloudflare Access; no bot controls.

Sources:github.com/heilonng23/openheard/blob/main/README.md