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Unleash
Company blog · getunleash.io/blogprogrammingstartups
Unleash is the company blog at getunleash.io, writing about programming and startups. Since 2021, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Unleash: Infrastructure 2.0”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Unleash's site as an open-source feature flag and feature management tool, often as an alternative to rolling their own or to LaunchDarkly. The comments are about the product, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Unleash is the FeatureOps control plane built for enterprises. Open source, private, and secure. Move fast, stay safe, and keep shipping.
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-11-19
- Unleash: Infrastructure 2.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-12
What Hacker News says?
Unleash is an amazing open source feature management tool: https://www.getunleash.io/ It would probably take some effort to hook it up to whatever billing platform you use, but it would make it easy to turn certain features on/off based on billing. Instead of checking if a customer has a specific plan, you instead have Unleash handle the features that are on/off and then check for those flags in the code.
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on “Separate Your Billing from Entitlements”Submitted Yggdrasil: The Evolution of OSS Unleash's SDKs as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI've been looking into using Unleash ( https://www.getunleash.io/ ) for this sort of thing. Seems like that would be a better option than rolling-your-own, particularly if you have the infrastructure for it. I haven't actually gotten too deep into it to know what limitations might come with using it. Does anyone have any experience with it?
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on “Flags vs. Gates”Submitted Unleash opens up Constraints for OSS Users as a story · 5 points
HN discussionWe just used https://www.getunleash.io/
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on “Ask HN: How did you build feature flags?”Submitted What does AI-assisted development look like in a big open-source project? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionUnleash - https://www.getunleash.io/ https://github.com/Unleash/unleash
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on “Ask HN: What feature flags platform do you use?”Submitted Released Unleash 4.13 with Advanced user segments as a story · 4 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 Growing a Sustainable Ecosystem Around an Open Source Project as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've been interested in trying Unleash. Looks like a very polished, cross language option that appears to directly integrate with Gitlab too. https://www.getunleash.io/
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on “FF4J – Feature Flags for Java”Submitted Life is what happens to you when you are building your own feature flag solution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHow would you describe your feature set or competitive advantage against Unleash? https://www.getunleash.io/ Agreed that LaunchDarkly is incredibly over priced.
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on “Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs”Submitted Unleash – Open-Source LaunchDarkly alternative as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWill continue building Unleash ( https://www.getunleash.io ), still a lot to do.
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year?”Submitted Show HN: Private instances are the secret sauce for Unleash as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unleash: Infrastructure 2.0 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The metric nobody measures: how long until the bleeding stops as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Single Tenancy in the Infra Layer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unleash v5: Dark mode, new project UI and segments, bulk updates, and more as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Unleash Edge – Fast, lightweight, resilient feature flagging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top DevOps Trends for 2023 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simply Wall St. use feature flags to deliver sleek and accessible analytics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s New in Unleash: Product Demo and Q&A [Feature Management] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s new in Unleash: Product Demo and Q&A as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Journey from Pets to Cattle as a story · 1 points
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