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"Coming Soon" Means Coming Soon: Why Our Roadmap Is Public

The DataQloo Team··1 min read

An easy thing to get wrong

Early-stage product marketing has an obvious failure mode: describe the vision as if it's already built. It reads better in the moment, and almost nobody checks until they've already signed up and hit the gap.

What we did instead

Every connector, every workflow node, every admin feature on this site carries an honest status: live if it works today, Coming Soon if it doesn't. The integrations page shows this plainly — PostgreSQL is live; the other fifteen connectors are marked and linked to a page explaining exactly what's missing and what to use instead. The feature roadmap lists every planned workflow node that isn't built yet, by name.

Why this is worth the honesty cost

It would be easy to write copy implying broader database support, or a finished audit log, or SSO — all common enterprise checkboxes. We don't, because a prospective user who discovers the gap after relying on false copy loses more trust than one who found an honest "Coming Soon" label up front and could plan around it.

What "live" actually means here

When this site says a feature is live, it means it's built and working in the product today — not scheduled, not "in beta with a friendly customer," built. PostgreSQL, the Import Wizard, Filter/Summarize/Sort/Browse/Output nodes, and role-based access control are the honest current core of the product. Everything else on this site is labeled accordingly.

If you find a gap

If any page on this site claims something that isn't actually true of the product, that's a bug in our copy, not an exception to this policy.

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