Archiving the roadmap
Pour one out for Buttondown's transparent roadmap, which I formally archived yesterday evening after a year or so of informal archival. This felt like the journey that so many other companies have had who have tried to keep public roadmaps and then for one reason or another got rid of theirs.
Mine had nothing to do with transparency. It was entirely due to the fact that Linear now makes a much better product than GitHub does — at least for the kind of project management I need — and if there was a way to easily make our Linear publicly visible, I would be happy to do so. The third-party services and integrations which purport to offer such functionality (Productlane being the most notable) seem like more trouble and money than they're worth.
More than anything, the reason I dithered about this for so long was a false sense of worry that there would be a backlash. Around 100 or so folks have commented, watched, or reacted to various issues over the years, which is not a huge amount but not a small one either, and it felt faintly bad to leave them all in the cold.
But in reality, no one has minded or noticed that much. And whatever negative goodwill we generate from no longer having this public repository is offset by the negative goodwill we avoid from having that public repository look so obviously abandoned.