Hi, Where are the docs for production?
I have a droplet with DO, and running a basic laravel SaaS project.
I want to give this a go, but don't want to spin up another droplet.
Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
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Re: Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most companies are not in the business of building UIs for rule engines, A/B-testing, user segmentation, etc. The value of giving non-engineers the power to roll out features without code changes is worth quite a lot. (Where I work we recently went from a home-rolled feature flag system similar to what you described to using LaunchDarkly)
Agreed, dynamically serving features based on a database flag is just one part. There's A/B analytics, rolling out to specific user segments, recognizing stale flags etc... You could always build it all your self, but I guess you could build a lot of things your self...
Beyond that, who's maintaining it? Are you going to be able to deploy these things across every single one of your systems? Your website? Your apps? In conjunction?
I absolutely understand that you could just read somejson from a cdn and call it a day, but at some point someone is going to have to maintain it and become the defacto feature flag person lol
Re: Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
#43Welcome to the party!
We launched https://devcycle.com about a year ago. We're not trying to compete in the self-hosted / on-prem space. Moreso a super simple setup and high flexibility.
Your use case is interesting though, it would definitely fix a lot of headache for people trying to do this via Auth0 directly. Also this just fits in a perfect slot for people starting up a new SaaS platform for sure. Super cool.
Re: Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
#44I know this is a peak HN comment, but I really fail to see the appeal of using a third-party solution for something so basic. In my applications, feature flags are simply controlled via a "tags" field per user and per team. Additionally, each subscription plan has a "tags" field attached to it that is merged with the user and team tags. The logic of how the application behaves in each case is something you have to wr…
Most companies are not in the business of building UIs for rule engines, A/B-testing, user segmentation, etc. The value of giving non-engineers the power to roll out features without code changes is worth quite a lot. (Where I work we recently went from a home-rolled feature flag system similar to what you described to using LaunchDarkly)
How is using LaunchDarkly home-rolling a feature flag system?
Re: Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
#45Seems that no-one mentioned my favorite feature flagging + A/B testing open source tool: https://www.growthbook.io/
What's up with those pricing plans? it goes from $0 (3 users) to $80 ($20 per user for 4+ users) per month.
Re: Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
#46Since it's Node.js and 2023 out there, it would nice to publish performance testing results for a single EC2/VPS instance.
Re: Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
#47Hi, Where are the docs for production? I have a droplet with DO, and running a basic laravel SaaS project. I want to give this a go, but don't want to spin up another droplet.
I appreciate the willingness to try it! Thanks!
This one may help you: https://docs.enrolla.io/contributing/overview
If it doesn't, feel free to reach out at the community slack: https://join.slack.com/t/enrollacommunity/shared_invite/zt-1...
We can even jump on a call to assist you.
Re: Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most companies are not in the business of building UIs for rule engines, A/B-testing, user segmentation, etc. The value of giving non-engineers the power to roll out features without code changes is worth quite a lot. (Where I work we recently went from a home-rolled feature flag system similar to what you described to using LaunchDarkly)
How is using LaunchDarkly home-rolling a feature flag system?
They are saying they started home-rolled and switched to LD
Re: Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
#49Seems that no-one mentioned my favorite feature flagging + A/B testing open source tool: https://www.growthbook.io/
I'll second GrowthBook. I was able to drop out of a LaunchDarkly subscription that was costing thousands of dollars per month and into a nice, cozy $29 Growthbook plan with zero loss in fidelity, while also increasing capabilities. Growthbook has a Chrome dev plugin that allows you to simulate feature flags and value changes without having to modify the actual flags and watch the page update in response to the flag c…
This sounds fantastic - I never understood why LD is so crazily expensive. Thanks for the rec.
Re: Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs
#50quick feedback: the HTML title of your home page is "home" so when I bookmark it my bookmark's title is "home" which isn't really useful. It also means you're search results title will probably be "home" which again... not great.