FlunesNot another dashboard
A Canny alternative for teams who live in GitHub
Canny is a public feedback board and roadmap your team manages as a separate product for an outside user base. Flunes solves a different problem: when the feedback is from your own PMs, QA, designers, and support, each report becomes a clean GitHub issue, with no board to run, no portal to check, and no per-seat pricing.
Choose Canny when: A public roadmap, changelog, and vote-counting portal are the point. You want a large end-user community to post and upvote requests. Feedback management lives outside engineering, as its own workflow.
Flunes vs Canny
- Yes, built in
- Partial, via add-ons
- No, not its job
Partial means it is possible through integrations or paid add-ons, not the core model.
What you get by moving to Flunes
You want feedback to land as a GitHub issue, where your devs already work.
You don't want to run and moderate a public roadmap or voting board.
Your reporters are your own PMs, QA, designers, support, or ops, not a public user base.
You'd rather not pay per seat for the teammates who report.
A day without a board
With Canny, someone owns the board: sorting incoming posts, merging duplicates, replying to commenters, keeping statuses current. With Flunes that role disappears. A PM or tester on your team opens their link, writes what went wrong, and the report arrives in your repo already labeled, sitting next to the code. Your developers triage it in GitHub during their normal day, the same place they handle pull requests and CI. Nobody opens a second tab to check a portal, and nothing waits in a queue for a moderator. The intake step stops being a job and becomes a side effect of a teammate sending feedback.
What you give up on purpose
This Canny alternative is deliberately narrow, so be clear about the trade. There is no public roadmap page, no changelog your users can browse, and no upvoting to show which request is most popular. If you rely on vote counts to prioritize, or on a visible board to set expectations with a community, Flunes will not replace that. It also does not annotate screenshots or sit as a widget on your site. Your teammates send plain text and an optional image. Everything past intake, prioritizing, planning, and shipping, happens in GitHub, not in Flunes.
Who should make the move
Switch if your reporters are your own people, PMs, QA testers, designers, support, or ops, and your real goal is getting their input into GitHub without the overhead of a managed product. Switch if you were paying Canny for a board you barely moderated, or per tracked end-user when the feedback you cared about was really internal. Stay on Canny if a public, vote-driven roadmap is genuinely part of how you talk to a large user base, or if feedback management is its own function outside engineering. Flunes wins when the board was never the point and GitHub already is.
FAQ
No, and that's intentional. Flunes does not provide a public roadmap, changelog portal, or vote counting. If your goal is getting your team's feedback into GitHub cleanly without running a board, Flunes is a better fit. Canny focuses on public voting portals for an outside user base; Flunes focuses on getting your teammates' reports into GitHub.