Bubble SaaS Product Roadmap
Three-horizon roadmap (Now / Next / Later), RICE prioritisation framework with worked example, and the three criteria that determine whether a feature belongs in the Now column. A roadmap is a hypothesis, not a promise — this guide shows you how to build one that stays useful.
A Roadmap Is a Hypothesis, Not a Promise
Most SaaS founders create product roadmaps by listing everything they want to build in priority order. This produces a document that grows longer every week, never shrinks, and bears no relationship to what customers actually need. A useful product roadmap is the opposite: short, opinionated, data-driven, and constantly revised based on customer signal. In a Bubble SaaS, where iteration speed is your competitive advantage, the roadmap should enable fast decisions, not paralyse them.
The Three-Horizon Roadmap for Bubble SaaS
Now (This Month)
Specific, committed work items with owners and completion criteria. Maximum 3 features or improvements. These are the things you would bet your retention rate on. They address the most critical customer pain point identified in the last month of research. Ruthlessly small, ruthlessly important.
Next (This Quarter)
Directional priorities — what problem we are solving next, not specifically how. 4–6 items. These may change as we learn more. They are based on current signal: churn reasons, support tickets, interview themes, feature requests from top customers. Not ideas from the founder’s imagination.
Later (Future)
Themes and bets, not specific features. “Better team collaboration,” “Analytics improvements,” “API access.” These are areas we believe matter based on where we see customers going. Deliberately vague. Specific features emerge from customer research when the time comes. Do not spec features 6 months in advance.
The RICE Framework for Bubble SaaS Prioritisation
RICE: Reach × Impact × Confidence ÷ Effort. Score each candidate feature on four dimensions and let the math rank your backlog.
| Dimension | Definition | Scale | Example |
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| Reach | How many customers will use this feature per month? | Number of customers | 300 (out of 500 customers) |
| Impact | How much does this move the metric we care about? | 0.25 / 0.5 / 1 / 2 / 3 | 2 (strong impact on retention) |
| Confidence | How confident are we in our Reach and Impact estimates? | Percentage | 80% (have 5 customer interviews confirming this) |
| Effort | How many person-weeks of Bubble build time? | Person-weeks | 2 weeks |
| RICE Score | (300 × 2 × 0.8) ÷ 2 | Higher is better | 240 |
What Belongs in the Now Column — The Three Criteria
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Retention impact: This feature, if absent, causes customers to cancel. Or its presence, if added, causes customers to stay who would otherwise leave. Every “Now” item should be traceable to a churn reason or a retention driver in your customer data.
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Activation impact: This feature, if absent, prevents new users from reaching their aha moment during trial. It is blocking trial-to-paid conversion in a measurable, documented way.
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Expansion impact: This feature, if added, will cause existing customers to upgrade to a higher plan tier. It is the reason the Growth plan feels meaningfully better than Starter, or Scale feels meaningfully better than Growth.
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A feature someone thought of in the shower, a feature a single customer requested once, or a “nice to have” that nobody has complained about its absence belong in Later, not Now.
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