Introducing Grove: Where UltiStackr Grows in Public
Every beta runs on feedback. Most of it disappears.
A coach mentions something at a tournament. A captain sends a screenshot to a group chat. A bug report lands in an inbox and gets fixed, and nobody who hit it ever finds out. The requests that shape the product are real, but the trail is invisible, and so is the answer to the only question that matters to the person asking: what happened to my idea?
Grove is our answer. It's live now at grove.ultistackr.com.
What Grove Is
Grove is UltiStackr's public feedback home and roadmap. Three surfaces, in plain words:
- Ideas -- feature requests from the community, ranked by votes.
- Bugs -- known problems we're tracking publicly, from first report to fix.
- Roadmap -- work the team has committed to building, in three stages.
Anyone can browse. Sign in with your UltiStackr account to post or vote.
Ideas Grow, and You Can Watch Them
Every request in Grove moves along the same ladder, and the stage is always visible:
- Seed -- a new idea or report, open for votes.
- Nursery -- we're investigating, discussing, and refining it.
- Sow -- committed. It's on the roadmap.
- Grow -- in active development.
- Bloom -- shipped.
Bugs and feature requests share one ladder. A bug in the Nursery is being investigated; a bug in Bloom is fixed. No date promises, no "coming soon" that never comes. Just where each thing stands, today.
Two of the first items to reach Grow were the play editor workspace layout and gamified conditioning logging with a team feed. Both shipped in 0.15.0-beta. If you want to see how a request looks after it's been through the whole ladder, start there.
Votes Mean Something
Ideas are ranked by votes, all-time. An idea that fifty coaches wanted six months ago outranks one that three people posted yesterday, because that's what "most wanted" should mean.
Votes aren't the only input. We still weigh what a request costs, what it unlocks, and how it fits the direction of the product. But votes are the clearest signal we have for what the community actually needs versus what one loud person needs, and Grove makes that signal public.
It Starts in the App
You don't have to leave UltiStackr to plant something. The Give Feedback button in the app files straight into Grove, so a bug you report from the sideline or a feature you ask for mid-practice lands on the same board, with the same stage ladder, as everything else.
Come to Grove when you want to see where it went, vote on what others have asked for, or share the link with your team and let the votes make the case.
Why We Built It
We could have used an off-the-shelf feedback board. We built Grove instead because we wanted feedback, triage, and the roadmap to be one system rather than three tools that drift apart. The item you vote on is the same item our team plans against, and the stage you see is the stage it's actually in.
It's also isolated from the app on purpose. Grove has its own deployment and its own database, with no access to your team data. If it ever goes down, the app doesn't.
Plant something.