# Ideabug - Self-hosted Feedback Widget | AuditBadger 💡 Open Source • Self-hosted • Anonymous-first # Ideabug Feedback, minus the SaaS tax Drop one script tag into your app. Your users get a bell, a changelog, a bug report form, and a public roadmap. You get all the data — on your server, on your terms. [View on GitHub](https://github.com/humadroid-io/ideabug)[Visit ideabug.io](https://ideabug.io/) In-app Announcements Changelog with read-tracking Bug Reports Auto-attached page context Feature Voting Build what users want Feedback where your users actually are ## Why Ideabug? Product feedback tools are either expensive SaaS with per-seat pricing, or they force your users off-site to a public board. Ideabug is neither: it's a widget on your domain, a database you own, and code you can read. ### The SaaS way - •$50–$200/month per seat, forever - •Your feedback data lives on someone else's server - •Users redirected to a third-party subdomain to vote - •Sign-up walls before anyone can submit - •Branding and theming locked behind "Enterprise" ### The Ideabug way - ✓Self-host once, run forever. MIT licensed. - ✓Your DB, your backups, your compliance story - ✓Widget lives inside your app — users never leave - ✓Anonymous by default, JWT upgrade when they log in - ✓Standalone public roadmap page included **One widget. Four jobs.** Announcements, bug reports, feature requests with voting, and a public roadmap — all from a single drop-in script. What's in the box ## Product Feedback Features Everything you need to close the loop between your product and your users ### In-app Announcements Publish product updates, ship changelogs, broadcast breaking changes. Per-user read tracking, per-user mute, and a bell badge that just works. Read-state synced across devices ### One-click Bug Reports Users submit bugs from inside your app. Ideabug auto-attaches the current URL, viewport size, and user agent so you're not debugging blind. Context, automatically ### Feature Requests + Voting Users suggest what they want. Other users vote. You prioritize based on actual demand instead of whoever emailed you last. Anonymous voting supported ### Public Roadmap Now / Next / Shipped columns, available inside the widget and as a standalone shareable page. Transparency without the overhead of maintaining a Notion doc. Standalone public URL included ### Audience Segmentation Pass segments (plan, region, role) in a signed JWT and target announcements to specific cohorts. Tell Pro users about Pro features, EU users about EU changes. Auto-managed contact ↔ segment links ### Anonymous-first Identity Users interact without signing up. When they later log into your app, their anonymous votes and read-state are atomically merged into their identified profile via JWT. No data lost on login Widget + Admin ## What it looks like The user-facing widget lives in your app. The admin panel lives on your server. ### Expanded widget What your users see ![Expanded Ideabug widget with Updates, Suggest, and Roadmap tabs](https://humadroid-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/ideabug/humadroid%20-%20product%20-%20expanded%20ideabug%20widget.png) ### Announcement detail Rich changelog entries ![Ideabug announcement detail view inside the widget](https://humadroid-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/ideabug/humadroid%20-%20product%20-%20announcement%20details.png) ### Public Roadmap Now / Next / Shipped — shareable standalone page ![Ideabug public roadmap view with Now, Next, and Shipped columns](https://humadroid-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/ideabug/roadmap.png) ### Announcements admin Draft, schedule, ship ![Ideabug admin panel announcements list view](https://humadroid-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/ideabug/announcements%20list.png) ### Tickets inbox Bugs + feature requests, triaged ![Ideabug tickets list showing bug reports and feature requests](https://humadroid-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/ideabug/tickets.png) ### Contacts Anonymous + identified users ![Ideabug contacts list showing anonymous and identified users](https://humadroid-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/ideabug/contacts%20list.png) ### Segments Target announcements to cohorts ![Ideabug segments list for audience targeting](https://humadroid-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/ideabug/segments.png) Quick Start ## Add it in one script tag Two lines of HTML get you the default bell. Go deeper when you're ready. 1 ### Drop the widget into your app Put a target div where you want the bell (usually your top nav), and load the script from your Ideabug host. `
` 2 ### Self-host the server Standard Rails app — clone, set credentials, migrate, boot. `git clone https://github.com/humadroid-io/ideabug.gitcd ideabugbundle installbin/rails db:setupbin/rails server` 3 ### Identify users via JWT (optional) When a user logs into your app, sign an RS256 JWT in your backend and return it to the widget. Anonymous reads + votes are merged into the identified contact atomically. `window.IdeabugWidget.configure({  jwt: async () => fetch('/api/ideabug-token')    .then(r => r.text())});` **That's it.** Your users have a feedback channel; you have the data. [View Full Documentation](https://github.com/humadroid-io/ideabug#readme) More from AuditBadger ## Explore our other [open source projects](/open-source/) All MIT licensed. All battle-tested in AuditBadger production. All free. [ Rails Engine ## Beskar Open-source security for Rails 8+: database-coordinated authentication limits, configurable account locking, persistent IP bans, scanner detection, and a dashboard with administrative audit history. Supports Devise and Rails built-in authentication. AuthenticationIP BansAudit History Learn more ](/beskar/) ## Free & Open Source Ideabug is MIT licensed. Self-host it, fork it, rebrand it. No per-seat pricing, no feature gating, no dashboard-usage caps. MIT Licensed 1 tag To integrate Your Data, your server [Star on GitHub](https://github.com/humadroid-io/ideabug)[Report an Issue](https://github.com/humadroid-io/ideabug/issues) One of several [open source projects](/open-source/) from the team at [AuditBadger](/). Running Ideabug in production? We'd love to hear about it. Share your story on GitHub or reach out to us. We use only essential cookies and privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics ([Plausible](https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics)). No advertising or cross-site tracking. [Cookie Policy](/cookie/). Got it