Open source · self-hosted · AGPL-3.0

Your users post ideas and vote.
You ship in the open.

Upvora is customer-feedback, feature-voting and product-roadmap software you run yourself. A dark-first, modern take on the battle-tested Fider engine — with private team ideas, multiple products, a prioritization scorecard, and an optional AI ideation agent. One Docker image, your database, your data.

Deploy it yourself ★ Star on GitHub
No hosted plans, no upsell, no lock-in — 100% open source for self-hosting.
The Upvora feedback board in dark mode
One Docker image + Postgres Multi-product from one portal Your data, your server One-click in-app updates 30+ languages
What you get

Everything a feedback portal should be — and nothing you have to pay a SaaS for.

🗳️

A board people actually use

Dense, fast, dark-first board with one-click voting, optimistic UI, powerful sort tabs, full-text search with similar-idea detection, and rich-text + markdown comments.

📦

Multi-product, one portal

Run every product from one place. Each gets a public board at /p/slug; every view filters to any combination of products with shareable URLs.

🗺️

A roadmap worth linking to

Status lanes with counts, filters, and inline voting — and your team can drag a card between lanes to restatus it. "What's planned?" becomes a URL, not a meeting.

🎯

Prioritization scorecard

A team-only scoring workspace: custom dimensions and form fields, weighted criteria, and a verdict read off an SVG progress ring with your thresholds.

Team only
🕶️

Private ideas

Mark any idea private — at creation or with a one-click toggle — and it's hidden from everyone but collaborators on every surface: board, search, roadmap, RSS, API, counts, and notifications.

New
🔒

Internal notes & comments

A deliberation layer visitors never see: collaborator-only comments excluded from public counts, plus one shared internal note per idea, live-synced with the scorecard.

✦

Vora — AI ideation agent

Optional. Vora interviews the submitter and drafts a title, summary, tags, and a full Idea Brief. Bring your own provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, or a local LLM — with optional web search.

Optional · BYO key
🎨

Theme studio

Your brand color and per-function accents as design tokens across light and dark mode. Per-product colors and raw custom CSS still available for everything else.

🔄

One-click updates

A System panel shows your version against the latest release and — with the bundled updater sidecar — updates your instance from the browser. No SSH, no runbook.

📧

Email your way

Send transactional mail through SMTP, Mailgun, Amazon SES, or Resend — pick one with a single environment variable.

🔐

Sign-in they already have

Passwordless email magic links out of the box, plus Google, GitHub, and any OAuth2/OIDC provider — Microsoft, Authentik, Keycloak, and more.

⚙️

The whole engine underneath

Webhooks, a REST API with per-user keys, CSV export, invitations, moderation, GDPR controls, 30+ languages, and migrations on boot. Kept current with upstream security releases.

The Upvora public roadmap in dark mode
Upvora vs Fider

Built on Fider's excellent core — with a lot more on top.

Upvora is a friendly fork of Fider (AGPL-3.0). The engine — data model, API, auth, operational simplicity — is superb, so Upvora stays close enough to keep merging upstream improvements and security fixes.

Capability Fider Upvora
Feedback board, voting, discussion✅✅ redesigned — dark-first, dense, inline voting
Statusesfixed set✅ fully custom (names, colors, home-page visibility)
Multiple products per portal—✅ chips, filters, /p/slug public boards
Public roadmap✅✅ lanes, filters, drag-to-restatus
Prioritization scorecard—✅ custom dimensions, fields, weighted ring
Internal notes & team-only comments—✅
Private (team-only) ideas—✅ hidden on every surface, one-click toggle
Themingcustom CSS✅ token-based color system + custom CSS
AI ideation agent (Vora)—✅ optional; BYO provider incl. local LLMs, web search, Idea Briefs
Email deliverySMTP · Mailgun · SES✅ + Resend
In-app updates—✅ System panel + updater sidecar
Engine, API, SSO, i18n, webhooks✅✅ inherited, kept current

Want the smallest tool with the largest community? Use Fider — it's great. Want everything above out of the box, self-hosted? Welcome to Upvora.

Self-hosted in minutes

One image. One Postgres. Your server.

Grab the compose file, set your URL and secrets, and bring it up. Migrations run on boot; put any TLS proxy in front (Traefik, Caddy, nginx, or a Cloudflare tunnel).

  • Public images at ghcr.io/hodyhq/upvora
  • Migrating from Fider? Keep your database — the migrations upgrade it on first boot
  • One-click updates from the admin panel, no SSH
  • No telemetry you didn't ask for; your data never leaves your box
Getting-started guide Source on GitHub ↗
# grab the compose file curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hodyhq/Upvora/main/docker-compose.example.yml mv docker-compose.example.yml docker-compose.yml # edit BASE_URL, secrets & email, then: docker compose up -d # open your BASE_URL — that's it.

About the fork. Upvora is an independent, open-source project built on getfider/fider and licensed under the same GNU AGPL-3.0. Original Fider copyright notices are retained. Upvora is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Fider team — "Fider" is the name of that project and is referenced here only for comparison and attribution.

Get in touch

Questions, ideas, or want to say hi?

Upvora is self-host-only and fully open source. For bugs and feature requests, the GitHub issues are best — otherwise drop a note here.