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Anyone using LaunchDarkly, and willing to comment on the experience? Code-wise, this seems like a pretty straightforward problem. I'm surprised there aren't more competitors.
They are a little more pricey than we'd prefer, but we're happy.
Anyone using LaunchDarkly, and willing to comment on the experience? Code-wise, this seems like a pretty straightforward problem. I'm surprised there aren't more competitors.
Not to take away from the fact that this is a very useful tool, but every time I have wanted this, I have built it myself. My general strategy is to store flags in the user's data and for A/B testing, randomly assign A% of users to have a certain flag set. Then somewhere in the admin dashboard I'll drop a set of switches/buttons for activating flags and running A/B testing scripts. Collecting test results is simply m…
Disclaimer: I don't work at the company anymore, but I worked on a previous incarnation of the tool.
Not to take away from the fact that this is a very useful tool, but every time I have wanted this, I have built it myself. My general strategy is to store flags in the user's data and for A/B testing, randomly assign A% of users to have a certain flag set. Then somewhere in the admin dashboard I'll drop a set of switches/buttons for activating flags and running A/B testing scripts. Collecting test results is simply m…
I saw this exact same sentiment when Optimizely was announced. Now, I cringe when people say they implemented their own A/B system (similar to what you wrote above). If you're running a business you probably need to spend your development efforts elsewhere.
However, I acknowledge that I may be vastly oversimplifying, and am not knowledgeable enough about LaunchDarkly to speak so brazenly about how I could do it myself. My main point is that as a small web development company, we have this feature in our builds already, and it only cost us a couple hours of development time to implement it.
This is just aimed at SaaS web offerings right?
We have gotten some requests for desktop SDK support, which would work more like the mobile or JS clients work, since there is a single user at a time, and the key used to get flag values must not leak any proprietary business info or details about other users. This is on our roadmap, so the funding will help here :)
But then after a few minutes... I kinda got it. I think this is a great tool for marketing, biz, and product management in organizations where the overall organization structure is kinda messed up and they cannot convince development to do things right. Which is 90% of companies. Very similar to hiring external management consulting services: since nobody in the company is capable to organize this.
So in short - LaunchDarkly will do well.