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Flagsmith
Company blog · flagsmith.com/blog · on HN as dabeeeensterprogrammingbusiness
Flagsmith is the company blog at flagsmith.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson: Founder and CTO, Ruby on Rails”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Flagsmith's site as an example of an open-source feature flag service, and also point to its podcast on self-hosting. The comments do not assess the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Flagsmith makes it easy to create and manage feature flags. Roll out, segment, and optimise. Stay secure with on-premise and private cloud hosting.
Most-linked posts?
- Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson: Founder and CTO, Ruby on Rails3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-30
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-17
- Interview with Sebastian Ramirez: FastAPI Creator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-24
- How to use JavaScript feature flags to deploy a feature safely[React.js example]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-06
What Hacker News says?
Shameless plug but I interviewed Pablo for my podcast https://flagsmith.com/podcast/pablo-muzquiz-penpot/ He's a mega interesting guy; it was a super fascinating 50 minutes of my life!
Comment linking /podcast/pablo-muzquiz-penpot/
on “Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform”Submitted Delete Your Staging Environment as a story · 14 points
HN discussionI interviewed Liyas recently for our podcast - their Github growth rate has been really incredible. Shameless plug! https://flagsmith.com/podcast/hoppscotch-liyas-thomas/
Comment linking /podcast/hoppscotch-liyas-thomas/
on “Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman”Submitted Our POV: When bootstrapping works (and when it doesn't) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of Sentry. This podcast interview had an interesting discussion of self-hosting: https://www.flagsmith.com/podcast/sentry > In terms of how much thought and design you put into the self-hosted story, this is one of the things that we've been slowly realizing that every time the product gets more complex and the infrastructure required that run it gets more complex. As soon as you include a time serie…
Comment linking /podcast/sentry
on “Huly – Open-source project management platform”Submitted We Improved Our Docker Image Security Using Chainguard's Wolfi as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFlagsmith. We are a remote-first team, looking to scale our Open Source Feature Flagging, Remote Config and A/B Testing product. With both SaaS and on-premise customers, we are investing into our globally distributed, low latency API and making it simple for customers to deploy on their own infrastructure via Kubernetes and OpenShift. We are looking for a server-side engineer, who also enjoys working on dev-ops, inf…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted The Enshittification of Digital Design. Specifically, the Slack Redesign as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI've been recording a podcast with Commercial Open Source company founders (Plug! https://www.flagsmith.com/podcast ) and have been surprised how often Clickhouse has come up. It is always referred to with glowing praise/couldn't have built our business without it etc etc etc.
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on “ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis”Submitted Don't let a flawed release take your company down as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI interviewed Pablo, the founder of this project, for my podcast - he's a super interesting guy and I'm going to plug the link! https://flagsmith.com/podcast/pablo-muzquiz-penpot/
Comment linking /podcast/pablo-muzquiz-penpot/
on “Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform”Submitted We've Added Multivariate Flags to Flagsmith as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThanks for the reply. Feedback would definitely be to include this sort of technical detail on the site! Would love to dive into the details of how you guys are doing DNS resolution (latency based routing?) how many regions you have, if we have control over how many regions we replicate to etc. We are building a global edge API for https://flagsmith.com/ and this is a great candidate for a data platform for us.
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on “Xata – Database service for serverless apps”Submitted Build vs. buy for feature flags – my experience as a CTO as a story · 3 points
HN discussionQuite a few new players with this model. Off the top of my head: https://papercups.io/ https://www.getoutline.com/ https://write.as/ https://www.flagsmith.com/ https://posthog.com/
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on “Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS”Submitted We bootstrap: Hitting $1.5M ARR with a super lean team as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlso biased! [0], we use them a lot, mainly on the front end. Most of the new features we are working on are gate-able via front end UI elements, and so we push out pretty much all our new features using our own platform. We are also doing interesting stuff like controlling what features are in our Open Source Docker container via flags in the platform that are baked into our Docker images when they are built. Once…
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on “Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags?”Submitted Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto: Founder and CTO, HashiCorp as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFlagsmith | Lead Engineer or Lead DevOps Engineer | REMOTE Flagsmith is an open source company for feature flag and remote config service that's head quartered in the UK with a largely remote team. We're bootstrapped and have been a regular presence here on Hacker News. We're looking for a lead engineer with experience working on large scale web platforms who can help to develop our API and dashboard. We're also loo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)”Submitted Show HN: I started a podcast about COSS companies and interviewed Heather Meeker as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are a few case studies listed in most of the feature flag solutions, of course, each organization is completely different and the maturity of each organization varies. But feature flags are a 2-way-door decision, meaning that you can adopt them at smaller scale, try it out and see if it works for you before making a decision. Here's a list of case studies from some of the solutions referred in the comments, so…
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on “11 Principles for building and scaling feature flag systems”Submitted Employees on Bootstrapping as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis depends entirely on volume IMO. We [1] use Discord for this, and its great, but we don't have a large message volume. Discord seems way better than Slack for this use case as there's a single login which is built around connecting to multiple servers, unlike Slack. [1]. https://www.flagsmith.com/
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on “Don't Use Discord as a Forum”Submitted Our First Remote Off-Site: What Worked, What Didn’t, What We’ll Do Differently as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with Sebastian Ramirez: FastAPI Creator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with Sebastian Ramirez: FastAPI Creator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tutorial: How to use JavaScript feature toggles to deploy safely as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is canary deployment? When and how to use it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to use JavaScript feature flags to deploy a feature safely[React.js example] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson: Founder and CTO, Ruby on Rails as a story · 2 points
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