alt Hacker NewsYour second startup dedicated to feature flags? Aren't these just some booleans with optional support to toggle them at runtime? Maybe I've just not been in the right domain, but I would have thought that if someone's use of feature flags is so complicated that they need a whole company to support it then they've massively overengineered their code.
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ambicapter • today at 1:31 PM
Launchdarkly and Statsig are both well-established companies that basically do feature flags+add-ons.
aleksiy123 • today at 1:26 PM
You can do much more with feature flags like ab testing/experiments, integrations with analytics.
There can be whole UIs and tooling and infrastructure to manage around them and that’s what the sass offer
horizonwingtech • today at 1:24 PM
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The author literally spells out why this isn't always the case:
> Yes to start out it’s 95% booleans. But then you want a rollout. And then you want some targeting rules. And then you want non booleans… maybe some json. Oo wouldn’t it be nice if the json could conform to a schema… and then eventually you are like damn I really want to change these without deploying. Or you want to read the same flag from multiple services.