Glue vs Productboard

Productboard organizes customer feedback. Glue reads your codebase. They solve different problems.

What Productboard Does Well

Productboard is a feedback management and product intelligence platform. It:

• Centralizes customer feedback from multiple sources
• Tracks feature requests and themes
• Helps prioritize based on feedback volume
• Creates roadmaps visible to stakeholders
• Scores features by demand

Best for: Product teams that want to organize voice-of-customer data and align roadmaps around customer demand.

What Glue Does

Glue analyzes your actual codebase. It:

• Understands architecture and dependencies
• Answers questions about what you've built
• Estimates impact of changes
• Identifies technical risks
• Generates documentation

Best for: Product and engineering leadership that need to understand codebase impact on roadmaps and estimates.

The Difference

When You Need Both

A typical workflow:

1. Productboard: Customers request feature X (200 requests)
2. Glue: You ask "how hard is feature X?" → Glue analyzes impact → answer is "medium complexity, 2 weeks, requires database schema change"
3. Productboard: You prioritize based on demand + effort

With only Productboard, you make decisions on demand without understanding cost.

With only Glue, you understand cost but don't know what customers need.

Together, you make informed trade-off decisions.

Cost and Complexity

Productboard: $1000-5000+/month, integrates with Slack and Jira, intuitive UI

Glue: $300-2000/month, connects to GitHub, designed for technical questions

Choose based on your primary problem:

• Problem: "Customers request features, we say yes to everything" → Productboard
• Problem: "We don't know if estimates are realistic" → Glue
• Problem: Both → get both