Backlogs

Customer feedback board with a public roadmap and product changelog.

FeedbackRoadmapSaaS

Status unknown^{Source [1]}^{Source [4]}Last verified Oct 2, 2026

About Backlogs

Backlogs pitched itself as a single place to manage customer feedback, show commitments in a public roadmap and engage users with a product changelog, according to a 2020 archived copy of its site.^{Source [4]}

Damon Chen listed it among the five apps he shipped in 2020; it generated $1.99, the only revenue among his four pre-Testimonial projects.^{Source [1]}^{Source [5]}

What happened

Backlogs was one of five apps Damon Chen shipped in 2020, a tool to collect customer feedback, publish a roadmap and post a changelog. He reported it earned $1.99. The backlogs.co domain did not respond on 2026-10-02.^{Source [1]}^{Source [4]}

Timeline

2020-12Listed by Chen with $1.99 in revenue among his 2020 apps.^{Source [1]}
2020-08Site live at backlogs.co (earliest Internet Archive capture).^{Source [4]}

Products and brands

Backlogs: Single place to manage customer feedback, a public roadmap and a product changelog.^{Source [4]}

How it makes money: Side project with no meaningful revenue: the founder reported it generated $1.99 in 2020.^{Source [1]}

Leadership

Damon Chen

Founder^{Source [1]}

Since 2020

People on Founded, and where they went next

1 person on record, connected to 5 other companies.

Person	Here	Also built
Damon Chen	Founder2020	PDF.ai2023 to nowActiveTestimonial2020 to nowActiveInfluenswer2020Status unknownHowdy2020Status unknownIndieLog2020Status unknown

Sources

I shipped all these apps in 2020 (post by Damon Chen), X, 2020-12-31. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
One year of indie hacking, I've learned a lot!, Testimonial blog (Damon Chen), 2021-05-02. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
Damon Chen: From Engineer to Indie Hacker Making $1,300,000 ARR, Creator Economy (Peter Yang), 2023-11-29. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
Backlogs: Make customers part of your journey (archived 2020-09-20), Internet Archive Wayback Machine, 2020-09-20. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
How to turn a failed product into a successful SaaS: Testimonial, The Successful Projects, 2024-03-01. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.

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