Can I vibecode Featurebase?

KINDA · weekend project

price $59/moyou'd save $708/yrbuild time multi-daycategory 🔬 user researchreplaced by 0 people

The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Featurebase, run a feedback portal, changelog, roadmap, and lightweight support widget. The hard boundary is integrated suite, ai, custom domains, sso, and hosted delivery, plus participant network, synthesis workflow, and collaboration.

the prompt

Build a personal replacement for Featurebase in an empty repository.
Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and Resend; do not offer alternative stacks.
The core loop is: collect structured feedback through a portal with a changelog, roadmap, and lightweight support widget, merge duplicates, connect evidence to themes, and publish a transparent status view.
Make the first run work locally with one documented command.
Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward.
Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials.
Create public and private feedback intake with consent text and optional contact details.
Support posts, votes, comments, tags, statuses, owners, and duplicate merging.
Add a research note type with evidence links, quotes, themes, and confidence.
Build search and filters across feedback, customers, segments, themes, and status.
Provide email notifications, moderation, export, deletion, and an audit log.
Publish a read-only roadmap or findings page using only explicitly public items.
Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states.
Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs.
Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path.
Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps.
Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane.
Deliberately leave out a paid research-participant marketplace.
Deliberately leave out unlimited video storage and automated transcription.
Deliberately leave out enterprise repositories, SSO, and governance.
Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used.

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why people still pay

People still pay for Featurebase because people pay either for access to participants or for a research repository that keeps evidence usable across an organization. The recurring cost buys recruitment, consent, scheduling, media storage, transcription, tagging consistency, notifications, search, and retention, not just the visible interface.

what you lose

xintegrated suite, AI, custom domains, SSO, and hosted delivery

xlarge participant panel

xrecording and transcription infrastructure

xadvanced research repository

xenterprise governance

prior art · use these instead of building, if you'd ratherFiderOpen-source customer-feedback portal with voting and status workflows.↗

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the numbers

Featurebase pricing

plan	monthly	annual (per mo)	what you get
free	$0/user	$0/user	1 seat; live chat; unlimited conversations; 0 included AI resolutions.
growth	—	$29/user	1+ paid seats; AI support charged per resolution.
professional	—	$59/user	1+ paid seats; 20 free Lite seats; AI support charged per resolution.
enterprise	—	$99/user	1+ paid seats; 50 free Lite seats; AI support charged per resolution.

free tier1 seat; live chat; unlimited conversations; 0 included AI resolutions.

billingAnnual public pricing per paid seat; exact month-to-month seat prices were not exposed in the checked page output.

hidden costsEvery paid support tier adds $0.49 per AI resolution on top of seat fees; the startup program advertises 86% off and 1 year of Fibi AI free only for qualifying companies founded under 2 years ago with fewer than 6 employees.