LaunchDarkly
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LaunchDarkly was and actually is a big game changer in our company.
What do you like best about the product?
A lot of possibilities to manage your product. Now we are using it on a daily basis. It is really easy to use, and if you explore it more you will find more and more useful things. "Easy to learn, hard to master". It was really easy to implement it in our environment. Contact with support was always a pleasure (Aaron is the nicest person I ve ever met).
What do you dislike about the product?
Implementation process was a little tricky. Not from the technical side but organisational. We didn't know that we can create one project for all platforms etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to proceed to CI/CD. Now every team can work on its part of the product. Timelines and limits of regular upgrades do not stop them, they can do it alone. Fuckups on the production can be "fixed" quickly by switching off the flag, then the team has more time to investigate and fix the problem with no time pressure.
Powerful feature flag tool that we rely on
What do you like best about the product?
Very configurable - for instance, you can target any flag by any of multiple facts you send to the LaunchDarkly tool, and can use custom names for the contexts you use (such as "User" or "Enterprise").
Great modern JS SDK means you can do all your feature flagging on the frontend if you want, allowing neat tricks like React updating in real time when you toggle a flag on.
Thoughtfully designed and well-documented API means you can also fetch flags completely manually on the backend and handle them yourself.
The API also allows you to do admin things such as creating flags and setting targeting. In our case we had a senior engineer make tooling and scripts to use their API to synchronize it with our old in-house feature flag system, allowing us to shift to using LD seamlessly with no manual labor or risk of outdated targeting.
Product feels very well designed and is reliable and performant.
We have never had even a hint of a reliability problem, as far as I know they have had zero downtime problems.
They have a lot of features, many we don't even use such as scheduling flags, approvals, and especially, A/B testing.
Great modern JS SDK means you can do all your feature flagging on the frontend if you want, allowing neat tricks like React updating in real time when you toggle a flag on.
Thoughtfully designed and well-documented API means you can also fetch flags completely manually on the backend and handle them yourself.
The API also allows you to do admin things such as creating flags and setting targeting. In our case we had a senior engineer make tooling and scripts to use their API to synchronize it with our old in-house feature flag system, allowing us to shift to using LD seamlessly with no manual labor or risk of outdated targeting.
Product feels very well designed and is reliable and performant.
We have never had even a hint of a reliability problem, as far as I know they have had zero downtime problems.
They have a lot of features, many we don't even use such as scheduling flags, approvals, and especially, A/B testing.
What do you dislike about the product?
They find ways to inconvenience you by withholding features on the non-enterprise plans. There are parts of the UI where they tease you such as the flag compare tool, where it will show you what flags don't match across environments, but you can't have it copy the settings if you aren't on Enterprise. Overall there are too many of these, but I admit that most of them aren't vital to my usage.
The (MAU-based) pricing can get expensive if you have a lot of users/entities that you are targeting separately. Likewise, the seat-based pricing can get expensive if you need a lot of licenses.
Overall it is expensive. If software is your core competency, your needs are actually very simple (meaning you don't use a lot of their many advanced features and tools), and your usage level is high enough to hurt, you may be better off considering either a much simpler tool, or something simple that you support in-house.
The (MAU-based) pricing can get expensive if you have a lot of users/entities that you are targeting separately. Likewise, the seat-based pricing can get expensive if you need a lot of licenses.
Overall it is expensive. If software is your core competency, your needs are actually very simple (meaning you don't use a lot of their many advanced features and tools), and your usage level is high enough to hurt, you may be better off considering either a much simpler tool, or something simple that you support in-house.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use LaunchDarkly to allow us to protect all the code we push until it's passed QA and we're ready to launch a feature. We also use it to hold back a feature sometimes for a customer who isn't ready to migrate.
Successfully controlled multiple FFs in my app
What do you like best about the product?
easy to use - just create FF and swith targeting + possibility to use precise targeting with rules usage.
What do you dislike about the product?
Stale flag state after 90 days not always enough to rollout the feature.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can easily rollout new features without any fear of failure as I can killswitch any feature with just one button
Easy feature controls
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to control our feature list and extrapolate when someone is able to see a feature.
Easy to roll a feature back if a major issue appears and we're able to quickly implement new feature flags.
We integrated the library without issue.
Customer service was quick to respond on the rare occasion that we needed to reach out to them.
Easy to roll a feature back if a major issue appears and we're able to quickly implement new feature flags.
We integrated the library without issue.
Customer service was quick to respond on the rare occasion that we needed to reach out to them.
What do you dislike about the product?
N/A, we have had no issues with using LaunchDarkly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're able to enable non-developers to take control of features for customers. Other services include targeted user testing, rollback of features and stagger releases if required.
Feature Packed and Easy to Use
What do you like best about the product?
LaunchDarkly has always been easy to integrate into our code and comes with powerful features that makes it effortless for us to roll out new features. Their SDKs make implimentation a breeze and their customer support is always helfpul whenever we have an issue.
What do you dislike about the product?
As the product grows, the admin interface gets a bit more complex. LaunchDarkly has a lot fo features so the adnim interface needs a lot of options.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We replaced Google Optimize with LaunchDarkly for AB testing and it's been smooth. We also hide new features behind feature flags until they're ready to go live. This allow our code to be in production, even when it's incomplete. Once the feature is completed, we enable the feature flag and everything is live.
Awesome tool for software development and testing new features
What do you like best about the product?
We use this very frequently and love it, because of the:
- Ability to gradually roll out features to a large customer base
- A/B testing capabilities
- Ability to control paid features in a simple way
- Ease of use with super clear UI and excellent supporting documentation
- Ability to gradually roll out features to a large customer base
- A/B testing capabilities
- Ability to control paid features in a simple way
- Ease of use with super clear UI and excellent supporting documentation
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing at the moment. The tool is very fit for our purpose.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Predominantly:
- Giving us the ability to control paid features via a toggle
- Giving us the aility to roll new features out slowly and easily turn them off if something goes wrong
- Giving us the ability to control paid features via a toggle
- Giving us the aility to roll new features out slowly and easily turn them off if something goes wrong
Powerful API for releasing features!
What do you like best about the product?
The UI and SDK clients are great to use and very intuitive. I can target users in different groups with different values.
What do you dislike about the product?
- Rolling out feature to percent of users
- Database for targeting
- Database for targeting
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Targeting users with different functionality
Toggling made easy without redeployment
What do you like best about the product?
The best thing that I love about LaunchDarkly is that it empowers developers and stakeholders to apply changes to their application without moving it to maintainance phase.
Ex: You can have an application which runs trading of commodities, and if you want to disable it for certain users the you just go to your LaunchDarkly console page and just toggle the feature to off. As soon as you do it, it will be turned off for users. Now you can enhance the feature and then after enhancement you just need to enable the toggle. Thats it.
Ex: You can have an application which runs trading of commodities, and if you want to disable it for certain users the you just go to your LaunchDarkly console page and just toggle the feature to off. As soon as you do it, it will be turned off for users. Now you can enhance the feature and then after enhancement you just need to enable the toggle. Thats it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as of. The price was bit high. We used it for 5 months.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Toggling feature is feature that we utilised along with permit.io
Nice product, agile team, easy to integrate and get started with
What do you like best about the product?
-Easy to get started
-Very responsive and agile team
- Covers the universal use cases product analytics well
- Gives better control and transparency on costs including warehouse and compute costs
- Gives better control and be compliant on data since its warehouse native
-Very responsive and agile team
- Covers the universal use cases product analytics well
- Gives better control and transparency on costs including warehouse and compute costs
- Gives better control and be compliant on data since its warehouse native
What do you dislike about the product?
- Some features like flows, supporting event properties based filtering can evolve
- Support for other warehouses apart from Snowflake/Big query might help
- Support for other warehouses apart from Snowflake/Big query might help
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
-Remove skill dependancy for product analytics
-Uncover insights around products using funnels, retention heatmaps
-Bring in data democratisation within company
-Uncover insights around products using funnels, retention heatmaps
-Bring in data democratisation within company
More and more useful as PMs get past the learning curve
What do you like best about the product?
1. Well rounded functionality and features
2. Ease of Use
3. Ease of Implementation
4. Ease of Integration
2. Ease of Use
3. Ease of Implementation
4. Ease of Integration
What do you dislike about the product?
1. There is headroom for making the compute utlisation cost efficient
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. PMs are engaging with data w/o dependency on analysts
2. Funnel and Flows are visualised on the Houseware app; available for the Org to analyse freely
2. Funnel and Flows are visualised on the Houseware app; available for the Org to analyse freely
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