LaunchDarkly

What do you like best about the product?

I like that LaunchDarkly is very easy to use. You just inject it into your code, create a flag, and use it for controlled access to features. It's super fast, enabling or disabling features instantly when I toggle them. I also like subscribing to the flag change feature, which is a nice touch. Although there's a minor learning curve initially, once you get familiar with it, working with LaunchDarkly becomes super easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

There's honestly nothing that i dislike about it.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use LaunchDarkly for incremental feature releases and controlling features. It allows me to show new features to specific organizations and ensure they aren't breaking changes. It's easy to inject, enables or disables features instantly with toggles, and supports subscribing to flag changes.

What do you like best about the product?

It's incredibly easy and straight-forward to use, even from a no/low-code perspective. I like how quickly it enables us to make changes in our platform.

What do you dislike about the product?

When working within specific Flags in LaunchDarkly, I wish there was a way to bulk add or bulk remove targets. I've spent quite a bit of time adding a Flag for about 20 targets, which I feel like could be sped up.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

For me specifically, leading our support team, I'm able to use it to activate a variety of banners across our platform, especially for notices and updates that need to go out in a timely manner. This allows us to get broader reach than spending out a mass email and tracking the emails down. We've been able to integrate with Claude projects as well, and are hoping to add additional automates to make it even faster and easier to use.

What do you like best about the product?

We used to reinvent the wheel at my previous company by building our own system to handle feature flags. There was really no reason to do that—just use LD instead. What I especially like is how detailed you can get when defining the rules that the flags are evaluated against.
It is also wonderful to have different environment where you can define your flags (prod VS non-prod environemnt), and the easy-to-understand UX allows you to easily accomplish your task

What do you dislike about the product?

in my perosnal opinion, the biggest drawback is about the complexity that comes when we need to manage a large number of feature flags. Without good processes, we can have a growing number of stale flags that can accumulate, with increased maintenance overhead

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our main use case is to define new flags so we can control a feature that’s still under development, and make sure customers only see it once it’s fully completed. Another use case is for features that should be available only to a subset of customers; with LD, we can easily control which customers the feature is available to.

What do you like best about the product?

I find LaunchDarkly incredibly valuable for shadow launching features in our web application, especially because it allows feature flags to be set at different hierarchies. Also, it enables to quickly turn off a feature during any release if any issues are encountered at the last minute without a need to rever back any code Or any additional work. The ability to enable a feature for certain users while it's disabled for others is a great way to conduct load testing and infra-level testing, helping us identify and resolve bugs early, thus improving customer satisfaction. I really like the ease of setup and how even a layman can understand and set it up easily. The customizability of the payload structure is a standout feature, as it lets us tailor the naming and organization to our needs. Integration with any tech stack is seamless, making it maintainable and valuable during releases and integration tests. I also appreciate the comprehensive documentation, which makes setup straightforward.

What do you dislike about the product?

I really like everything about it, but one thing that I can say it can improve is the introduction of AI of some kind to help in writing the given scripts (payload in this case) when given a requirement.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use LaunchDarkly for shadow launching features, enabling early bug detection and load testing, boosting customer satisfaction and ensuring smooth releases without sharing features with end users prematurely.

What do you like best about the product?

I like the flexibility of being able to configure a feature flag with different rules.

What do you dislike about the product?

For now, nothing to complain about. I really like the way Launch Darky works, and how easily you can use it on both the backend and the frontend.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

With it, I can easily configure new features for internal users, and I can also release special features only for premium users or for specific customers.

What do you like best about the product?

Really easy to manage feature flags across environments

What do you dislike about the product?

Very powerful tool but it's not always immediately obvious how to use it

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing rollouts and features across different environments and users

What do you like best about the product?

I like using LaunchDarkly for gradual rollouts of features, as it eliminates the need for feature flags in the code and redeploying for changes. The web app is easy to use, and I find the SDK easy to implement inside my code.

What do you dislike about the product?

It’s fine, no issues with it.
No ai or good documentation really

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

LaunchDarkly lets me do gradual rollouts of features without needing feature flags in the code or new deployments for changes.

What do you like best about the product?

I think the UI is pretty intuitive and navigatable

What do you dislike about the product?

I think its sometimes a bit hard to know what are the right permissions that I should request for my team. This means we may request more permissions than needed and get pinged for more requests than necessary. Also the launchdarkly outage recently was frustrating since it required cluster restarts in order to refresh cached flag values

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Launchdarkly offers us feature flags so that we can quickly turn off or on features in environments without a re-deploy

What do you like best about the product?

I love the ease of use and the API of LaunchDarkly. The easy usability within our code base for using feature flags is fantastic, and we have a model that helps us within a framework. The initial setup of LaunchDarkly has been great with no problems.

What do you dislike about the product?

Certain things about the API when it comes to permissions aren't as smooth as I'd like. It's a bit tricky when locking down our users to do certain things. Aside from that, there's not much to scoff at.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use LaunchDarkly to roll out features for any number of customers across all our products. Its ease of use and API make it easy for us to implement feature flags within our code base.

What do you like best about the product?

I find LaunchDarkly gets the work done as a simple but very focused product. No one inside the company ever gets confused about how to operate LaunchDarkly. It’s very simple to operate since it does one thing.

What do you dislike about the product?

It's expensive for the stuff it does. Fixed pricing would help because right now it’s usage-based, which sometimes makes it very expensive. Also, over time, the ease of use makes the environment complicated because there are way too many feature flags, which leads to no team member fully understanding what each flag does. It requires deep exploration every time.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use LaunchDarkly for feature flag management, which helps gate features for different customers and environments. It's simple to operate, so no one gets confused, making it an efficient and focused product.