Launch HN: GrowthBook (YC W22) – Open-source feature flagging and A/B testing

Re:Launch HN: GrowthBook (YC W22) – Open-source feature flag... by sbuccini on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:44PM (#30517267)

Looks great. I think every hypergrowth startup I've worked at has gone through the use commercial tool => tool gets crazy expensive as you scale => "let's just roll our own, how hard can it be?" => "oh crap, this actually is more complex than we thought" cycle.

There are _so many_ types of services that were similarly disrupted by solid open-source implementations due to their price: business intelligence (Metabase), live chat widgets (Chatwoot), monitoring/observability (Grafana). This feature set is even more crucial than the ones above so I'm surprised a default open-source implementation hasn't emerged.

Excited to see how this progresses!

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Re:Launch HN: GrowthBook (YC W22) – Open-source feature flag... by jrdorn on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:00PM (#30517507)

Yeah, that's our exact experience as well. I was super surprised to find out how much of a graveyard open source A/B testing was. Intuit (Wasabi), Facebook (PlanOut), and SeatGuru (Sixpack) open sourced their internal platforms years ago, but they are all abandoned now.

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Re:Launch HN: GrowthBook (YC W22) – Open-source feature flag... by byrnehollander on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:47PM (#30522630)

Sixpack was from SeatGeek, not SeatGuru :)

It was upgraded internally to Sevenpack but something like GrowthBook looks much nicer!

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Re:Launch HN: GrowthBook (YC W22) – Open-source feature flag... by sbuccini on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:15PM (#30518660)

Ah, I forgot about Sixpack. Brings me back to my very first feature launches ever :')

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