5 engineers on Hacker News describe using LaunchDarkly first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“LaunchDarkly promised the moon, but their product worked worse than our in-house system and we spent nearly a year with a couple of dedicated headcount engineering workarounds.”
regret · production · echelon · 2026-02-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use your tool every day - it's incredible how easy you've made it to drag a slider and get automated progressive rollout of features”
endorse · production · mryall · 2017-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use LD, because (1) we don't have time to make a pretty UI with user management and audit logs... They are a little more pricey than we'd prefer, but we're happy.”
mixed · production · fizx · 2016-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We then sent a signal to all instances of our app to cut over using Launch Darkly, which maintains a low-latency connection to all instances of our app.”
neutral · production · brentjanderson · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my last job we relied heavily on feature flags via Launch Darkly.”
neutral · production · JohnBooty · 2023-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?