Pollenbyte
A launch site for an invented Guildford software start-up whose product gathers customer feedback into one shared roadmap, designed to show the product early and earn free-trial sign-ups.
A studio project: an in-house design for a fictional business, not a client site.
Feedback → themes → roadmap
Every piece of customer feedback, in one place your team can act on.
Pollenbyte pulls requests from email, support chat and sales calls, groups them by theme and links each theme to your roadmap. Your team sees why something is being built.
Inbox
Themes
Roadmap
Product teams using Pollenbyte
- Wrenfold
- Quaylight
- Tallowpath
- Brindlecroft
- Seamstack
- Orchard & Kite
How it works
01Connect your channelsForward an inbox, connect your support chat and add notes from calls.02Let themes formSimilar requests are grouped so you can see what keeps coming up and from whom.03Link to the roadmapAttach themes to roadmap items and tell customers when their request ships.
Why we built it
Retire the sticky-note wall.
Feedback sessions end with a wall of notes, a photo of the wall and a spreadsheet nobody opens again. Pollenbyte keeps every request, who asked for it and what happened to it, so the next planning session starts from the evidence, not from memory.
Take the product tour →Simple pricing
Prices exclude VAT. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial.
Starter
£0 free
For one product and up to 3 editors
- Email and chat inboxes
- Themes and tags
- Public roadmap page
Team
£49 /month
Up to 10 editors
- Everything in Starter
- Sales call notes
- Roadmap linking and updates
- CSV export
Scale
£149 /month
Unlimited editors
- Everything in Team
- Single sign-on
- Several products
- Priority support
Try it with your own feedback
14-day free trial, no card needed to start. Paid plans from £49 a month.
What the design solves
Early-stage software sites tend to describe the product in abstract terms and borrow credibility they have not earned yet. This design shows the interface in the first screen, explains the workflow in three steps and puts plan prices on the home page.
- The business
- Pollenbyte is an invented early-stage software company in Guildford. Its product collects customer feedback from email, support chat and sales calls, groups it by theme and links each theme to a product roadmap.
- The goal
- Target: free-trial sign-ups from product managers at small software teams, plus an early-access list for new features.
- Pages designed
- Home page (shown below)
- Planned next: product tour
- Planned next: pricing and integrations
- Planned next: changelog and sign-up
The thinking behind the page
Show the product in the first screen
The hero pairs a one-line promise with a drawn view of the feedback board, so a product manager can see what the tool does before reading a paragraph.
Quiet proof, no borrowed credibility
A single row of customer wordmarks, set in grey so it supports the product rather than shouting over it. There are no inflated user counts or star ratings, just the names of the teams on the product.
Bright, but built for reading
Pollen yellow and violet on near-black give the brand energy without hurting legibility. Schibsted Grotesk sets the headings; JetBrains Mono labels the product, which suits an audience that lives in software tools.
Pricing on the home page
Three plans with prices, what each includes and a free trial on every paid tier, all on the home page rather than behind a “contact sales” wall. A photograph of the sticky-note wall the product replaces gives the page one human, physical moment.
Palette and type
- Ink
#15131a - Pollen
#ffd23f - Violet
#5b3df5 - Lilac
#f4f2ff
Headings in Schibsted Grotesk, labels in JetBrains Mono.
Tell us what the website needs to do
Send a few lines about your business and what is not working today. We reply with questions, then a written proposal.
- Free, written quote
- Reply within one working day
- Meetings on Zoom or Google Meet