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2026 4
2025 13
- Feature voting best practices: how to make it work for your product team
- 8 real-world ways companies use Canny to prioritize customer feedback
- Exploring our new pricing: lower entry points, fewer limits, and more features
- What is revenue recovery and how does it fuel SaaS expansion?
- Feature parity in SaaS: What to build, what to skip, and what the pros say
- 13 best product roadmap tools (with key features and pricing)
- The 10 best idea management software tools: Your complete guide
- How to choose the right changelog tool + 11 great options (with features + pricing)
- What is product portfolio management?
- The 12 best customer feedback management tools (with pricing & features)
- How to speed up product validation and reach market fit
- How to improve your NPS to get more brand advocates
- Retention rate: what it is and how to improve it
2024 39
- How to strengthen and track user activation for SaaS success
- How to use customer feedback to identify upsell opportunities
- How to use email marketing to improve customer engagement
- Why product managers should embrace customer co-creation
- 21 of the best product management books to read in 2025
- Innovate to elevate: 7 strategies for effective product ideation
- How to get ChatGPT to stop lying: 7 actionable tips for product managers
- How to master productivity with a lazy product manager approach: 12 ideas
- Introducing automatic Feedback Discovery for leading review sites
- 7 fresh product management tactics from 18 product experts
- Ten tips for promoting your Canny board to gather valuable feedback
- How to use the voice of the customer methodology to build products customers love
- How to organize customer feedback easily and effectively
- La dolce vita con Canny: team retreat in Italy
- Bridging the gap between success and support: who handles what?
- 17 key product manager skills to help you get ahead
- Put feedback management on Autopilot—introducing our new AI features
- Ten essential skills for Agile product management in a changing landscape
- How product prioritization software elevates PM workflows (+ the best 5 product prioritization tools)
- 6 valuable ways to drive customer engagement in 2025
- How to succeed with product feature planning (with examples)
- A product manager’s role in the protection of data privacy
- Year in review: 7 years of running our profitable bootstrapped SaaS
- 18 best product management certifications in 2026
- 100,000 reasons to track client feedback
- What is a sunk cost and how you can effectively manage it
- Feedback management tips from 15 leading female product leaders
- The top 24 product management blogs in 2026
- The SaaS revenue roadmap: understanding and leveraging ARR
- How to conduct user interviews to uncover the best insights
- What is the software development life cycle?
- Why feedback is your ultimate growth hack for 2026
- What is a product? How to successfully build products users love
- Starting a startup with your significant other: what it’s really like
- How to use customer feedback in product development
- Canny’s guide to growing your team at your bootstrapped startup
- How to build a culture of continuous feedback in the workplace
- Mastering the new product development process
- Top SaaS trends for product managers in 2024
2023 53
- What is planning poker and how can it boost your team’s game?
- Product management dashboard: how to track your product’s performance
- Best product management software for 2026: pros and cons of each tool
- What is Agile sprint planning?
- 6 customer onboarding strategies to make a good impression
- Canny cottage near Toronto: post-retreat reflections
- What is product marketing and how do you successfully manage it?
- What is product management?
- How design can help your startup stand out: tips from a designer founder
- What is the KANO model?
- SMART goals: what the acronym means and how to use it
- Master product planning with these free roadmap templates + examples
- Eight tips for scaling a product team without sacrificing quality
- Understanding user stories and how they help in product management
- What is an innovation roadmap? How does it support your innovation strategy?
- What is a marketing roadmap? How to plan for marketing success
- What is a technology roadmap + how do you build one that works?
- The complete guide to building effective roadmaps (with examples and templates)
- Defining value propositions + how to write them effectively
- Agile story mapping: bridging ideas and execution
- What is a business roadmap? Complete guide with examples
- What is SAFe Agile and how does it help with business agility?
- Agile essentials: what is acceptance criteria and why it matters
- 8 ways SaaS companies can use AI to get ahead
- Bug vs feature: what’s the difference? (guide + examples)
- 24 best AI tools for product managers (2026)
- Top 18 product management podcasts every PM should listen to
- Why do you need release notes? (featuring great examples and templates)
- What is technical debt and how do you best manage it?
- Why customer feedback is essential: the ultimate guide to effective feedback programs
- What is an epic in Agile + how to build them effectively!
- The 2026 guide to product prioritization + the best frameworks
- What is a minimum viable product (MVP)? A complete guide with examples
- Canny in Japan: post-retreat reflections + videos & tips for team retreats
- What is scrum and how can your team use it effectively?
- Canny for B2B companies
- Webinar recap: how to sell more and delight customers through feedback management
- Canny year 7: welcoming 4 new cannisters!
- How to write engaging customer feedback emails (+ examples for inspiration)
- Introducing Canny + Asana
- The best product management memes
- Canny for support
- What is idea management? A complete guide + best practices
- 7 product managers used ChatGPT. Here’s what happened
- Why sales need to be involved in product prioritization
- How to report your customer experience ROI
- 10 women in product who inspire us
- Why resource optimization is critical for product teams in 2025
- How to handle productivity guilt as a SaaS founder
- 5 SEO metrics that really matter for a SaaS business
- 3 easy ways to break down silos between product and sales orgs
- 5 steps to learning from churning customers [+churn rate formulas!]
- How feedback management can boost SEO
2022 12
- Canny 2022 Wrapped
- Product management predictions for 2023
- How feedback management leads to improved customer satisfaction and retention
- Meet Canny’s Class of 2022!
- Canny in Mexico City: Post-retreat reflections [+video!]
- 5 effective and unconventional product testing ideas
- Best product management advice from over 20 top product managers
- Your complete guide to SaaS SEO
- Canny is now SOC 2 type II compliant
- How product managers can leverage these 3 customer satisfaction metrics: NPS, CES, CSAT
- Introducing Product Chats, a new podcast from Canny
- Announcing our new pricing plans (including our Free plan!)
2021 14
- How we’re moving our SaaS upmarket to enterprise sales
- Introducing Canny + ClickUp
- Why SaaS businesses should use product roadmapping software
- A step-by-step guide to experimenting with product pricing strategies
- Why work at Canny
- How to manage feature prioritization + how we do it at Canny!
- Using Canny to integrate user feedback into your roadmapping and planning meetings
- A step-by-step guide to finding your first 100 SaaS beta testers
- Year four in review: overcoming the unexpected
- How growth teams use customer feedback
- Project management across time zones: 7 lessons
- Introducing Canny 2.0: What’s new (and how we slow-released our product update)
- How uSERP built an $80k+ MRR agency in 1 year
- 4 ways to make your user feedback tool more accessible to customers
2020 38
- Best of 2020: Our top articles on customer feedback, roadmapping, and SaaS
- Moderating user comments diplomatically
- 5 roadmap tips for remote product management
- Supercharging customer feedback: when to ask for referrals
- How to use customer feedback to win back lost customers
- Canny for customer success: using Canny on customer support teams
- How we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup
- How to conduct a remote SaaS demo that converts
- Canny for sales: Using Canny as a feedback tool for sales teams
- Should you use your own product?
- Canny best practices: How to organize customer feedback
- What happens if you ignore user feedback?
- Canny for product managers: using Canny as a product management tool
- Too much tech? How to decide if you need a new tool
- 3 public roadmap benefits you probably haven’t thought of
- Increasing customer loyalty by collecting feedback
- Product roadmap best practices: Informative and transparent
- Encouraging dissent: Why negative feedback is valuable
- The best way to collect user feedback
- Understanding customer feedback: why it matters who is saying what
- Using the Canny Changelog to close the customer feedback loop
- 6 ways for SaaS businesses to use visual social proof
- How to announce product updates and features
- How to ask the right customer feedback questions
- How to say no to product feature requests
- Product adoption: How to get your team to use new tools
- Why SaaS product managers need feature voting software
- Should you use a changelog tool?
- Product roadmap prioritization: how to effectively plan your roadmap
- Should you have a public roadmap?
- How to ask for customer feedback for your SaaS product (+ useful infographic and a free guide)
- Why you should be collecting customer feedback
- Different types of customer feedback (and what to do with them)
- How to get customer feedback for your SaaS product
- Year three in review: Lessons from growing our bootstrapped startup
- Lessons from a year of team retreats
- How to choose the right support channels for your software product
- How to write effective case studies for your software product
2019 34
- Evaluating the best public product roadmap examples (with screenshots!)
- How to know if you need a customer feedback tool
- Improving communication between product and support
- How to communicate product value to potential customers
- How to successfully deliver your product roadmap presentation to stakeholders
- How to give good feedback to a SaaS product
- Canny best practices: feedback board use cases
- The end of our digital nomad journey
- Canny best practices: your customer feedback strategy
- Canny best practices: using Canny internally
- Conquering the “my baby” fear in product management
- Canny best practices: user segmentation
- Making a product video with no time and no budget
- Beta testing: how to choose testers from your user base
- Debunking the “faster horse” concern in customer feedback
- 3 situations where not listening to customers is fine
- Top free SaaS tools for startups (with a budgeting worksheet)
- 5 reasons why customer feedback is vital for product management success
- How to tackle real-life social media customer service obstacles
- Canny best practices: Using Canny privately
- Canny best practices: status changes
- Managing customer expectations for new feature requests
- How internal product roadmaps improve productivity and transparency
- How to reduce SaaS churn with perfectly timed customer success
- Are all feature voting tools equally bad?
- Canny best practices: responding to feedback
- How to start making your business customer focused
- Canny best practices: How to position feature voting to customers
- How to deal with negative customer feedback
- What is NPS and how to use it to gauge customer satisfaction
- Saying no to big customers
- Year in review: Lessons from our second year of bootstrapping Canny
- How we’ve managed to attract top talent to our early-stage startup
- A year of writing
2018 7
- Reflections from the last 2 years as a founder
- Building your brand by telling your story
- First hire to first fire
- Defending your early-stage SaaS startup against email spam
- How to be productive without an office
- Year in review: Lessons learned from bootstrapping our SaaS startup
- SaaS Pricing: Lessons from 4 pricing changes