Nilkanth Patel

Herald - A collaborative repository for user feedback

Herald is a collaborative repository for user feedback. We help product and customer teams work together to grow revenue by painting a full picture of user problems. Start a free 14-day trial today, and use code PHLAUNCH to get 25% off the first 6 months.

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Nilkanth Patel
Hi PH, Today, we're launching Herald (https://www.heraldhq.com), a collaborative repository for user feedback. We help product and customer teams work together to grow revenue by painting a full picture of user problems. After hundreds of conversations with product, customer success/support, and sales leaders, we noticed a pattern of problems around user feedback: - It's scattered across tools like Zendesk, Gmail, Front, Intercom, Salesforce, and more. - Customer Success and Sales teams dislike using Google Forms (too clunky) or Slack (too ephemeral) to submit user feedback to product teams. - PMs are overwhelmed by the time and energy it takes to analyze user feedback. - It's painful or impossible to quantify what an important customer segment wants. Herald is the first product that solves these problems through collaboration between product and customer teams: ✅ It's the easiest way for any team member to submit user feedback, right from the apps they use to talk to customers (think 2-3 keystrokes). ✅ Product teams have a single source of truth for user feedback with robust tools to organize it. ✅ Customer-facing teams can review the status of requests from a given account. ✅ Enriching feedback with customer attributes makes it easy to answer questions like "What are the most popular requests across our highest-paying customers?" And coming in the next 45 days: ✅ Discussions about customer problems happen right where the feedback lives, so that it's not lost on Slack or email threads. ✅ Customer teams will be reminded of any open questions the next time they talk to the customer. 🔥 Exclusive offer: Get a 14-day free trial today. If you sign up for a paid plan before November 30th, use promo code **PHLAUNCH** to get 25% off the first 6 months. 🔥 We love dogfooding Herald ourselves, so please post any feedback you have here, or reach out to us directly at hello@heraldhq.com!
Lisa Neu
Herald helps us to have our users' feedback in one place and organize it easily through topics and tags. What I love most about it, is its Chrome extension that makes it super easy to add comments through only 3 clicks! Keep up the good work
Veronika Riederle
@lisa_neu +1. Herald makes it very easy for all of us in customer facing roles at Demodesk to get user feedback in one place for our product team to analyze
Nilkanth Patel
@lisa_neu @veronika_riederle Lisa, Veronika, thanks for joining us on the journey! It's so rewarding to work with a company with a customer-centric culture like Demodesk. Helps us learn so much along the way.
Marcel Seibold
@lisa_neu @veronika_riederle Nothing more for me add! HeraldHQ is a must have if you want to be customer-centric. Great work on this @nilkanthjp and @jayisms
Joe Ahearn
Use Herald every day, with every customer interaction, and at every ticket planning session. We get anywhere from 60-100 pieces of feedback from our customers each week, across a lot of different elements of our product. Previously it was really hard in our ticket-planning sessions for me to advocate on behalf of the customers, or really understand what to focus on, in anything but an anecdotal sense. But using the Product/Market fit survey features we can easily segment the feedback from the most actionable users, or use tags to zero in on just the features we've launched recently to clean up any bugs, or those that are surfacing most frequently with our customers, or that are blocking them the most. We had used a handful of other tools previously, but they all we too difficult to get feedback into in the first place, or lost the original context, or were hard to reference when it was time to make plans. I really appreciate that the Herald team has thoughtful through that entirely feedback lifecycle - including keeping the customers themselves up to date about what you're prioritizing. Keep it up team, excited to keep growing with you all
Nilkanth Patel
@joe_ahearn Thanks so much for all your help and support, Joe. You've been with us since the very beginning, hope we've done a satisfactory job serving the withfriends team. Needless to say, excited to keep the partnership going!
Daniel Hagstedt
Great product, highly recommend it. Works for feedback from both customers, leads and from our team members.
Nilkanth Patel
@daniel_hagstedt So great to hear, Daniel. Let us know if there's anything we can do to make the experience better for the team—we're all ears :)
Ty Hill
We made the switch to Herald from Canny about 5 months ago. Herald helps us easily capture feature requests and other forms of customer feedback received on a variety of mediums. There Chrome and Firefox extensions make capturing feedback as simple as a few clicks. Not only does Herald help us quantify feedback, but it also provides context to the feedback. It's very easy to segment this feedback and draw actionable insight from the data. This is especially helpful to the product, design, and eng teams. The team also has an incredibly fast release cycle. Their support is top notch, and I'm consistently impressed by how quickly they're able to implement new feature requests or resolve minor bugs. I can't recommend Herald enough for teams that are looking to better collect, organize, and implement customer feedback!
Daryna Kulya
We love using Herald at OpenPhone. We get tons of feedback through all channels and can easily capture it in one place + organize it so everyone on the team has visibility into customer pain points and issues. Working with the Herald team has been incredible - they're super responsive and open to feedback. :) I think every SaaS company should work with them.
Robert Lacok
We've been using Herald for a while now. I absolutely love it, and so does the rest of our team. We used to collect feedback into a different tool, but that was mostly the end of it, it needed a lot of effort to make it actionable, and our engineers still didn't have enough visibility into user feedback. Herald makes it easy in two ways: - Top notch experience when collecting the feedback, categorizing it during ingest - Good interfaces to spread it around the company - mostly a weekly summary email and slack integration (which pushed the insights to a channel)
Nilkanth Patel
@robert_lacok Thanks Robert! You've been a pleasure to work with, very keen on learning even more from you and the team at Deepnote!
Dave Jeffery
We switched from ProductBoard as it was far too complicated for our needs. We just wanted to collect feedback from customers and organize it so that we could see what was most important to customers. ProductBoard added a ton of overhead. I've found that Herald is much simpler and I'm not missing any features from PB. Also, @nilkanthjp, @jayisms and team have been super responsive. Very impressed and glad we switched.
Nilkanth Patel
@nilkanthjp @jayisms @davej Can't thank you enough for your continued support, Dave! We'd love to make it even easier for the ToDesktop team, so if there's any way we can, hit us up.
Christian Piponides
Promising productivity tool! I'll share with my PM. I've added feedback on the landing page as a thank you in the meantime - hope some of the points help :) Congratulations launching on Product Hunt!
Nilkanth Patel
@christian_piponides wow, this is incredible Christian, thanks so much! It's challenging to get quality UX feedback haha, so this is a boon for us! I'll follow up with the comments on Bubbles.
Ludvig Brisby Jeppsson
Our user feedback used to be scattered across a number different places (survey tools, emails, forms, customer support chat) making it hard to use as input in the product development. With Herald we collect, sort and analyse the feedback without much effort. This enables us to make more informed decisions faster and make sure we build what our user want. Been using it for about a year now and can't image going back to a pre-Herald world! Herald has been pushing new features in rapid pace last year and the Herald team offers great support. Recommend all companies serious about customer feedback to try it out!
Nilkanth Patel
@ludvig_brisby_jeppsson1 All thanks to you and the Matteappen team, Ludvig! Your feedback and suggestions have helped craft a far better product. Hope to keep the tight feedback loop going.
Abhiroop CVK
Been following Herald so many months now through the beta, really wonderful to see how much it has grown!
Nilkanth Patel
@abhiroop_cvk 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 Thanks Abhi!
Giacomo
Herald is by far the easiest way to collect and organize customer feedback I could find. We've been using it for ~8 months now and are super happy with it. My favorite feature is that you can save feedback from anywhere with just ⌘+⇧+Y Great product. :-)
Nilkanth Patel
@giaco You rock, Giacomo! Let us know if there's anything we can do to make your life _even_ easier :)
Nicu Gudumac
We've been using it for a while. It's a great tool to keep all the feedback centralized and make sense of it. Love the pace of development and the team is super responsive.
Nilkanth Patel
@nick_gudumac Thank you Nick! It's been so great being able to help your team. Excited to see it grow in the past couple months, looking forward to helping you solve new challenges in this realm as they arise!
Vlad Calus
This is a great solution we've been using for the past few months and really helped us collect better feedback.
Raj Karmani
It's a great tool and presentation! I am unsure about one thing. Does it also provide a replacement for something like usersnap.com?
Nilkanth Patel
@rkarmani Hi Raj, thanks for the kind words! One difference is that we are not as focused on customer-facing feedback widgets. While we do have a customizable public portal that you can use to expose your roadmap and collect feature requests, we don't currently offer embeddable forms to get feedback from your app. Our focus is more so on internal feedback collection/organization, coming from channels like Zendesk or Intercom or Front. Happy to answer any other questions or do a product walkthrough if you're interested—just reach out (nilkanth@heraldhq.com).
Adam Hjort
What I really love with Herald is how easy it is to get my colleagues to collect feedback from client, and at the same time closing the loop with reporting back when integrating with Clubhouse. Also, the founders are super agile and really listens to needs and feature requests
Nilkanth Patel
@adam_hjort1 Thanks to your team for being terrific launch partners for Herald! It's been great learning about how your product and customer teams collaborate and using that model to help us fine tune new features for larger companies. You've directly influenced many of them, most recently our Zapier integration.
Abhik Pramanik
❤️ Herald. Great product and it’s awesome that the feedback we collect gets sent to the team as a weekly email. Team is awesome and super responsive to feedback.
Eduardo Moreno
Hey! Happy to see you in PH! We use herald at Wego, very happy with it so far. Their support is stellar and their product helps us to be transparent to our customers. Good luck!
Alex Bouaziz
Looks amazing!
Gabe Ragland
I've been a happy Herald user for 7 months. Such a great product. I love how easy it is to save customer feedback from email and live chat with their Chrome extension.