LaunchDarkly
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The industry standard for safe feature management
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite feature is the "Kill Switch" capability. It gives our team tremendous confidence to know that we can immediately disable a problematic feature in production without having to roll back code. The ability to separate deployment from release has truly transformed our workflow for the better.
What do you dislike about the product?
Dealing with "flag debt" can be quite challenging. Although there are tools available to help spot outdated flags, actually removing them from the codebase once a feature is fully released still demands significant manual effort and discipline from the engineering team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It decouples our code deployments from feature releases. We can merge code to the main branch daily without exposing incomplete features to customers. It acts as an immediate safety net. If a new feature causes performance issues, we can disable it in seconds without waiting for a new build or deployment pipeline to run. It allows us to safely test features with a small percentage of users to gather feedback and verify stability before rolling out to 100% of our audience.
Effortless Feature Management and Intuitive Dashboard
What do you like best about the product?
The experience, it's incredibly easy to use. The dashboard is super intuitive, easy to follow once you get familiar with it. The integration as well, is very easy and straightforward. Implementing flags in LD is about as easy as it gets. Just install the SDK, initialize with api key, and you're ready to use feature flags. Documentation is very detailed, just follow along when confused.
Favorite part about LD - how much better life is with testing. It very easy to manage flags based on environments. This is useful when testing and if ever in the event something is wrong in production, it's very easy to kill it with the flagging system. The targeting rules -- being able to segment users based on their attributes makes gradual rollouts very easy.
Favorite part about LD - how much better life is with testing. It very easy to manage flags based on environments. This is useful when testing and if ever in the event something is wrong in production, it's very easy to kill it with the flagging system. The targeting rules -- being able to segment users based on their attributes makes gradual rollouts very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's really not much to dislike about LD.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Feature flag management, shipping out features every quarter. It makes testing easier, managing the features in the event it goes wrong.
Effortless Beta Testing with LaunchDarkly
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate LaunchDarkly's ease of use, which makes it straightforward to work with. I also find targeting users for betas to be particularly effective, along with the customer support and the ability to flag beta features which enhance user testing, segmentation, and feature releases.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish it was easier to scroll down large lists of users to see submission buttons on large populations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly for user testing and segmentation, feature release, and beta programs, which simplifies targeting users for betas.
Wouldn't want to do without it!
What do you like best about the product?
It is really hard to manage new features without it! I like the option to do client side vs. server side implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The LaunchDarkly context could be expanded upon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being able to roll features out for a select few users only.
Intuitive UI, Effortless Feature Flagging
What do you like best about the product?
I think the UI of LaunchDarkly is very intuitive and powerful, especially for feature flags. It makes it very easy to feature gate and customize each flag not only with boolean values like true or false, but also with custom values. This flexibility in configuring for different environments, like testing and production, is very valuable to me. Additionally, the onboarding process was very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't think of anything significant, but maybe more documentation and training and also on best practices would be good. I might have missed this if this already existed somewhere out there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to easily feature gate changes not ready for production, customize flags beyond true/false, and configure different environments. The intuitive UI makes it powerful for managing feature flags, helping us seamlessly handle testing and production environments.
Transformative Feature Management with Dependable Flags
What do you like best about the product?
I use LaunchDarkly for feature rollout plans, controlling a particular feature, and rolling back changes while on-call. It gives me an assurance about which feature broke something or didn't, making me feel safe in the head. I love the dependent flags feature because it eliminates the need to communicate with the other team about going live, as I can just make it a dependent flag. Additionally, authoring history is a must-have for me as it allows me to see who turned a feature on or off and investigate the associated ticket. The initial setup of LaunchDarkly was straightforward.
What do you dislike about the product?
I believe long back when using dependent flag, there was a small inconsistency that the parent flag had to be rolled out before my flag but not sure it maybe mentioned in the docs now. Other than that I have no issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly makes me feel assured by identifying if a feature broke something. I love using dependent flags to streamline communication with teams and appreciate the authoring history for tracking changes.
Exceptional Uptime, Always Reliable
What do you like best about the product?
99.9% availability, fine ux, okta sso, ...
What do you dislike about the product?
recently there was downtime which affected our production.
also, missing features such as reminding of experiments that are not being conducted.
also, missing features such as reminding of experiments that are not being conducted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
mainly feature management, segmenting (big segments), and rollout
Transforms Feature Management with Precision Control
What do you like best about the product?
I like how LaunchDarkly gives me precise, real-time control over feature releases with strong targeting and instant rollbacks, making deployments safer and more scalable. It reduces release risk by letting us control, test, and roll back features instantly without redeployments. LaunchDarkly is also a powerful feature tool for managing feature flags without deploying new code and running controlled experiments. I really value its robust feature control and reliable release management.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main downside is the pricing at scale and the learning curve for non-technical teams, which could be improved with simpler plans and more intuitive onboarding.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly lets me manage feature flags without redeploying, reduce release risk with instant rollbacks, and control feature tests, making deployments safer and scalable.
Robust Feature Management for Customer Access
What do you like best about the product?
I like the robust flag logic controls of LaunchDarkly. The ability to create different groups and add notes is really helpful as it makes it easier for others to understand why things are set in certain ways. I use LaunchDarkly to manage feature access for customers, and it solves the issue of managing what different customers on different contracts have access to, as well as testing new features with smaller subsets of customers. I haven't run into any issues so far and would definitely recommend it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly solves the problem of managing feature access for customers on different contracts and testing new features with smaller customer subsets, simplifying our feature management.
Intuitive Feature Flagging with Easy Setup
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how LaunchDarkly is super easy to use, especially with the change log for each feature flag. It's like a git repo, allowing us to see who's edited it and when, which is super helpful and intuitive for our workflow. It was also super easy to set up; our front-end engineer did it in a day. LaunchDarkly makes managing feature flags for our different customers very convenient.
What do you dislike about the product?
When I'm editing a feature flag, I always have to type the word 'production' or 'development.' For production, I feel like that's necessary, but for a dev environment, it doesn't seem like we should have to do that all the time. That's the main complaint. I also find LaunchDarkly a little difficult to navigate. Our entire organization uses LaunchDarkly, and finding our specific team's feature flags is a bit of a puzzle if I start at the beginning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly allows us to segment features behind service agreements, so we can turn features on and off for different customer subsets easily. It's been super helpful for managing these features.
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