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Re:Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative... by GalKlm on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:07AM (#34706234)
Thanks again; glad to shed some light :)

I totally get you; we're struggling to find the correct wording. As an engineer, I also bump into the "gradual (temporal) rollout" as the first association of "Feature Flags".

What wording would make sense to you now that you understand the vision?

Re:Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative... by satyrnein on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:08AM (#34706596)
For me, it's that you described it as a LaunchDarkly competitor, which is mainly that "rollout" use case. It makes me expect the features they have, like alerts that a flag is serving the "launched" variation to everyone, and can be ripped out, or code search to see if any references to a flag remain.

I gather you're probably not doing that stuff?

That said, I have LaunchDarkly for feature rollout, an ACL layer for clients to control their own team's permissions, and then custom code to enable features based on a client's package plan. It feels like a lot of conceptual overlap, and a unified solution would be nice.

Re:Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative... by nirga on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:59AM (#34708070)
Yes that’s our long term goal. I don’t like having to adapt 4 different tools to do things which are quite similar.