LaunchDarkly

"My experience with LaunchDarkly has been fantastic."

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? I like how easy integration of the SDK into our software has been. They have several different SDKs depending on the client type. The documentation for integrating the different SDKs has been easy to consume and apply in practice. What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? I would like to see some improvements to the management platform. There are areas, such as targeting, where I believe the user experience could be improved quite a ...

"Great development tool that simplifies feature flags"

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? Launch darkly lets me easily turn feature flags on and off to control experimental code or beta code. What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? There is a need for better documentation around the implementation of the feature flags in the codebase What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you? Launch Darkly lets me hide any experimental/beta code from the end user, it also allows us to use feature flags to isolate any downtime.

"My experience on LD has been pretty good!"

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? I love that it's easy to use, organized, and very intuitive. I use it to toggle our features on and off on a daily basis What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? N/A - I like everything about it so far. Any issues I have would be a limitation of our own system What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you? We're solving the problem of ensuring our platform stays smooth and users get the best customized experience possible.

"Great and best tool for feature flagging management"

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? - Easy to use - Integrated with essential tools - Workflow automation What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? nothing so far, but maybe enhancing more the pricing plans What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you? Manage the product features via flags according to its subscription plans, locations, custom condition...etc

"Does exactly what it promises to!"

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? It's pretty straightforward! As a PM, we use LaunchDarkly to add clients to a beta, to turn on features for demo accounts for testing purposes, etc. It's a straightforward tool that does exactly what it promises. What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? To be honest, I've never run into a scenario where I needed LaunchDarkly to do something that it didn't. No complaints. What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you? Ability ...

"It's a different wat to work with, but it's been incredible. Customer support is excellent."

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? Customer support is incredible. The FAQ section as well What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? Haven't got any problems so far. I think what bugs me most is pushing code that is not ready, but protected by a feature flag. What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you? For new releases on production, we can disable if something goes bad. Also early access to some clients

"Getting features out of the dark"

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? Fast setup, easy to learn interface, fast toggle of features What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? Limited seats for developers/PMs/designers. Cost of each addition tool/addon, forces us into the enterprise tier. Recommendations to others considering LaunchDarkly: Consider the seat limitation before purchasing. Be prepared to teach your company new practices about the best way to set up feature flags. What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how ...

"Intuitive Feature Flagging Software"

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? I like the ability to add complex configurations that allow for very granular feature flagging. What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? Sometimes feature flag changes are slow and take several minutes or more to be committed. Additionally, a LaunchDarkly outage took several hours to resolve with no backup or workaround for users. What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you? LaunchDarkly allows engineers and customer service ...

"Very good tool for feature flags! highly recommended!"

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? The complex conditions you can target in order to turn on/off feature flags in your system What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? if you target a lot of specific users manually, it's hard to track on who you is targeted and who not, and it's hard to make an operation on multiple users What problems is LaunchDarkly solving and how is that benefiting you? I can deploy critical changes in my system to production and still to be on the safe side that ...

"Great for launching beta features"

What do you like best about LaunchDarkly? Great for rolling out features slowly for beta testing in production. I would say it is less well suited for toggling features permanently for users as this requires more integration with our backend and billing systems that would be a lot of work to set up. What do you dislike about LaunchDarkly? The pricing model means that to get adequate users to enable sensible auditing is very expensive. We have ended up sharing users between engineers just to ...