LaunchDarkly
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Intuitive and User-Friendly with Effortless Flow Chart Design
What do you like best about the product?
Its very straightforward, easy to use, and formatted in a way that makes sense. The flow chart style is really easy to understand.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes I feel like the search functionality could be better. I sometimes find that I need to search exactly the write words to get the right flag to come up
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly makes it easy for us to control what users can use which features. It also helps us to keep things just for Dev before public release.
Effortless Feature Rollouts with Handy UI
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate the UI of LaunchDarkly, which is kind of easy to understand without having to read a manual, although some exploration and guides can be helpful. I like how LaunchDarkly allows us to roll out features to specific clients, using key attributes like ID or country, and even lets us filter hundreds of IDs in a segment. This makes it much easier compared to doing it manually in the codebase or with a database. Having a UI to manage features definitely makes things easier for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
If I'm not mistaken, once I set the key name for a feature, it cannot be changed. I shouldn't reuse the same key name as it will confuse future team members including me. I need to create a different feature to have a new key name.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to roll out new features without breaking production and to customize user experiences. It makes dividing user pools into different experiences easy, avoiding codebase and database manual work, and lets me target specific clients accurately.
Powerful Feature Management with Robust Controls
What do you like best about the product?
Great tool to safely manage the release of new features, with tons of functionality and controls for rollouts, A/B testing, content management, and much more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Other than potential improvement for the UI/UX in terms of placement of buttons and text boxes, I can't say I dislike anything about LaunchDarkly!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly has helped our business solve the problem of fast, continuous development and iteration without needing to withhold releases of features. It helps us easily turn features off when issues arise, as well as safely and progressively roll them out when we need to. It makes it simple to manage features for different environments, and set many variations for a wide range of functionality.
Unmatched Feature Release Control and Speed
What do you like best about the product?
Its the best tool we have found to implement Feature Releases. The ease of not having to deploy changes when we want to enable/disable features is unparalleled.
The speed at which we are able to release features has considerably increased because we know things are behind a flag and the flag cant be turned on/ off at will and easily in seconds.
We also features like A/B testing targeting segments and users and groups.
The speed at which we are able to release features has considerably increased because we know things are behind a flag and the flag cant be turned on/ off at will and easily in seconds.
We also features like A/B testing targeting segments and users and groups.
What do you dislike about the product?
Maintaining different environments and keying in different configurations for each environment is a little clumsy.
If there is something that would allow like a single screen to apply multiple configurations for different environments at the same time instead of doing it one at a time, it would be cool.
If there is something that would allow like a single screen to apply multiple configurations for different environments at the same time instead of doing it one at a time, it would be cool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mostly, the ease of turning on/off features is the biggest advantage.
Also, the ability to target users and groups and segments with minimal effort.
Also, the ability to target users and groups and segments with minimal effort.
Robust Feature Management with a Learning Curve
What do you like best about the product?
I really like LaunchDarkly's UI. It allows my team to control releases easily, make informative decisions, and be able to easily see what we are actually doing with releases.
What do you dislike about the product?
UI is great, but it can be too hard to use for new users. There are too much of things on a screen, I think some of those can be hidden into some dropdowns, or something like that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly to release new features with controlled processes. The great UI makes it easy for our team to control releases, make informed decisions, and understand our actions.
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.
Streamlined Feature Management, Minor Documentation Hurdles
What do you like best about the product?
I like how easy it is to manage feature flags with LaunchDarkly. It's great that we can see all experiments and flags in a unified place, which makes handling them much simpler. Given that our engineering department is large, having this unified view really helps us see what's deployed and in which environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the documentation confusing for deprecating and archiving flags. It wasn't clear from the UI/documentation exactly what the behavior is.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use LaunchDarkly as a killswitch for new features. It lets us manage feature flags easily, providing a unified place to see all experiments, which simplifies deployments for our large engineering team.
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.
Enabling Dynamic Feature Management at Scale
What do you like best about the product?
LaunchDarkly provides fine-grained control over features and configurations, allowing us to make changes without the need for redeployments or causing downtime. This flexibility lets us experiment safely, introduce updates gradually, and address issues as they arise in real time. Thanks to local flag evaluation and minimal impact on performance, we can innovate more quickly while still ensuring system stability and delivering a great user experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
While LaunchDarkly offers robust capabilities as a feature management platform, it can become challenging to handle as the number of flags and environments increases. Teams that are new to feature flagging may face a learning curve, and keeping flags well-organized demands consistent effort and discipline.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
LaunchDarkly helps us with feature management by enabling dynamic configuration updates. It allows us to enable or disable features and update configurations at runtime without requiring any pod restarts. All configuration rule evaluations happen locally, ensuring there is no additional latency overhead.
Effortless Flag Management with an Intuitive Interface
What do you like best about the product?
Creating and configuring a new flag is really easy ans straightforward, launchdarkly UI is very intuitive and easy to use. Sdk integration is also very easy and adding it in code is also very straightforward, we never faced any downtime
What do you dislike about the product?
Segments have a limit of 15000 which is low for one of our usecase
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Feature releasing is easier, its much easier to roll back any changes if we found any issue
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