Ask HN: What are the most popular product roadmap tools?

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Trello and Asana are pretty good.
Don't know if it is the most popular tool, but I can definitely recommend ProductBoard - https://www.productboard.com/

It is beautiful app with many integrations(Zendesk, Jira, Trelo, Slack, etc) and many features which helps you to conduct research, prioritize what to build next, communicate plans and progress.

Hubert, the CEO of PB, is also very active on Medium where he writes about product management - https://medium.com/@hpalan

Sounds stupid, but if you are talking big milestones and overall vision, Excel works just fine.
Yeah I've tried a lot of these and every time I find that I'm not actually doing anything productive, but just linking pieces of text together. They seem like the ultimate busywork tools.
Aha is such a tool - some PMs swear by it. It seems ok. It's super expensive.
Aha is an excellent way to visualize and bootstrap a complex product.

JIRA integration is effective and is bidirectional.

When it is necessary to provide timelines that allocate not only dates, but effort in terms of hours that be mapped to cost, it beats MSProject. More efficient, more flexible and the trial period is sufficient to make the leap into a proper Agile tool like Trello,JIRA, orAsana via Zapier.

Prodpad is great. Trello is also flexible enough to be used with many different workflows.
If it's not already on your radar, be sure to check out ProductPlan. It's intuitive and very visual: www.productplan.com