Hacker News Reader

A lightweight approach we've started at my company:

1. Create a GitHub Repo dedicated to user-facing issues (https://github.com/scoutapp/roadmap)

2. Customers can subscribe to issues they are interested.

3. When resolving an issue, we reference it in the git commit, which closes the issue and notifies the issue subscribers.

We're a developer tool, so it's a familar flow for our customers.

Neat approach. I've also seen public facing trello boards used to varying success (at the very least to give users a hopefully clear picture of what features/issues are prioritized)

There's a matrix-style screensaver for OSX that uses something similar (global events via API) to populate the 'matrix characters' with actual code. Useless, but conceptually rather fitting.

https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver

The Beeminder folks are doing this since 2011 http://uvi.glitch.me/

2633 User-Visible Improvements and counting! We've averaged exactly 1 per day for over 7 years. :) We also tweet them all to http://twitter.com/beemuvi

I've been using https://headwayapp.co/.