Reward the people who shape your roadmap.

Feedback works best when it feels like a shared activity, not a one-way submission form. Leaderboards in Upvoty are the small ritual that makes that happen. They rank the users who vote most, comment most, and contribute the most useful posts, and they surface the feature requests that the broader community loves. The result is a feedback portal that feels like a community space, not a black hole.

The leaderboard layer is intentionally light. We are not building a points-and-loot ecosystem, we are building a quiet acknowledgement system that respects users' time and privacy. Each leaderboard can be enabled or disabled per board, scoped to a time window (weekly, monthly, all-time), made public or kept internal, and configured so individual users can opt out of being ranked.

The two leaderboards that matter most

Top contributors and top features. Top contributors is a ranking of the users who participate most in your feedback ecosystem, the ones casting votes, leaving thoughtful comments, and filing well-formed posts. Many teams quietly use this list as a recruitment pool for beta programs, customer advisory boards, and user research panels. The people who show up week after week on your feedback board are some of the most engaged customers you will ever find.

Top features is a ranking of the most-voted feature requests, often surfaced directly on the homepage of the public portal. It serves as instant social proof for new visitors ("look how engaged this community is") and as a quick prioritization snapshot for your team. Pair it with the public roadmap and the connection between community votes and product direction becomes visible to everyone.

Badges and milestones without the spam

Light gamification works when it is genuinely earned and visible only where it adds value. Upvoty's badge system awards users automatically when they hit meaningful milestones, 100 votes cast, 10 posts created, first helpful comment marked, longest streak. Badges show up on a user's profile and on the leaderboard, but they never trigger spammy emails or push notifications. The goal is recognition, not engagement loops.

Tying leaderboards to your customer base

Because Upvoty leaderboards are built on top of User SSO, the top contributors list automatically deduplicates by your real user accounts, no spammers, no anonymous users gaming the system. Combine it with segments and you can see top contributors per plan, per region, or per any custom attribute you track. This is how product teams identify enterprise champions, beta-ready free users, and the customers most worth investing in for advocacy programs.

For teams that want full brand control, every leaderboard inherits your visual customization, colors, fonts, badge designs, copy. The result is a feedback portal that feels like an extension of your product, with a built-in community layer that requires almost no ongoing maintenance to keep alive.