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Show HN: Feature Flags Backed by Git

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Post by bullcitydev »

Hey all,

I'm the founder of Flipt, an open-source (https://github.com/flipt-io/flipt) feature flag tool that I (and others) have been working on for the past few years.

About a year or two ago we added support for serving flag state from various non-relational declarative stores like Git, OCI, Object Store, etc.

Many of our users came to love the git-backed storage, as it allows them to keep their feature flags close to their code in there organization's repos. But they had one (rather large) ask, and that was the ability to use the UI to manage flag state changes and still use Git as the backend.

So today we're rolling out our hosted solution that does exactly that (and more soon).

I would love any feedback, questions, etc, or if anyone would give it a spin! Happy to extend the 14-day trial as well for anyone interested in providing product feedback.

Thanks!!

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Post by bullcitydev »

bullcitydev wrote: post #3
abluecloud wrote: post #2

the sound mix on the video demo is unbearable for me. the vocal is lower than the background music.

yeah sorry, I will fix that! It was bothering me too. I put the music to the lowest setting.. I used https://kite.video/

The voice volume seems to get quieter in certain spots, even when its set at a constant level.. I'll reach out to the Kite team

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Post by withinboredom »

I noticed that when trying to evaluate flags, the context only allows string values. Is that by design?

edit: it also seems silly to force users to choose an organization name with a big warning that they can't change it later. Why stop me from signing up? I almost didn't sign up because of this, but decided I would just try it out.

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Post by bullcitydev »

withinboredom wrote: post #6

I noticed that when trying to evaluate flags, the context only allows string values. Is that by design? edit: it also seems silly to force users to choose an organization name with a big warning that they can't change it later. Why stop me from signing up? I almost didn't sign up because of this, but decided I would just try it out.

Yeah the context only supports a map/JSON object of k/v string values for evaluation at the moment.

We could definitely look into supporting other types and making this simpler. The constraints that are matched can be of several types, which we try to parse at evaluation time https://docs.flipt.io/concepts#constraint-types.

Also thank you for the feedback about not being able to change the organization name. Currently we use the 'slug' of the organization (based on the name) when we setup the routes for your environment, so it was just simpler to make it a one time thing.

But I think we could support renaming your org, it would just make the previous URLs invalid, or we could maybe handle redirects on our end too.

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