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- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
LaunchDarkly makes continuous delivery using flags a breeze
Reviewed on 07/04/2021
We use LaunchDarkly to decouple Deployment and Release. We can focus on testing with the flag off...
We use LaunchDarkly to decouple Deployment and Release. We can focus on testing with the flag off initially - this should prove that the new code is not being called and existing functionality has not regressed. We can then be confident that master can be deployed to production at any time with the flag off without causing any problems. Once we have tested flag off we can focus on testing flag on to ensure the functionality is working. Once we are happy, we can then release the flag at whatever time suits the team and the business, and it is a non issue as there are no code deployments at release time.
Pros
Being able to easily target individual or groups of users for internal or external testing is very powerful. Being able to quickly change these targeting rules, and the new feature of change requests to allow your change to be reviewed before being applied is great from a process point of view. The insights graph is fantastic at showing the variants that users are receiving and allows you to identify when a flag is ready to be removed.
Cons
Some functionality like User Segments is very powerful but only available in the enterprise licence. The change request functionality is only optional at this time and cannot be enforced - ideally we would want changes to rules in production to only be allowed once they have been reviewed.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Reach for the stars with LaunchDarkly
Reviewed on 10/03/2021
Pros
Feature flagging is such a game changer and LaunchDarkly make it so easy. The UI and logic is incredibly easy to navigate and follow. Giving us the ability to test in production is huge and made such a difference to our production development.
Cons
The API's are a little cumbersome to get our head around with the response properties not as clear as they could be. However once you have got your head around the terminology it is all good.
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Not my decision to drop.
Reviewed on 04/03/2021
Solid tools. Allowed us to deploy more safely.
Solid tools. Allowed us to deploy more safely.
Pros
Flags were a valuable tool to safely deploy with many teams working on the same stack.
Cons
No real issues with the software. I view the product as mature.
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Superior experience for engineers.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
LaunchDarkly is very helpful in test driven software developments.
Reviewed on 13/10/2023
Pros
The most I like about the launch darkly is feature flag management. We can implement the launch darkly in our code when we are working on a agile methodology, it is easy to use the feature flags as it keeps track of your codebase with each and every feature development.
Cons
Nothing I dislike about launch darkly as such. But when we are using a feature flag during production code deployment. More security features would be helpful.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A great feature flag tool!
Reviewed on 23/02/2024
Pros
Easy to use for developers and friendly, being used in backend front and mobile - SDK are nice to use
Cons
Flag depreciation could be much better if we had more details for the flags and calls. Also there could be a automation to help and encourage the FF depreciation
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Ease of Use
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
LaunchDarkly
Reviewed on 04/03/2021
We have been very pleased with LaunchDarkly and besides being able to turn off a feature in a split...
We have been very pleased with LaunchDarkly and besides being able to turn off a feature in a split second, the ease of use to roll out features in multiple ways has provided a lot of value for us.
Pros
* Being able to test in production using labels - before go live we can test in production
* Being able to turn off a feature in a split second if there are issues. In some cases, we can revert back to an older working version of the feature
* Being able to use percentage rollout.
* Being able to rollout to certain markets and not all.
Cons
* Certain ease of use features for large projects with lots of feature toggles - like bulk copy/delete etc...
* Pricing model
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A great way to manage the availability of your new features until they are ready for production
Reviewed on 25/07/2021
Overall LaunchDarkly has been great for our development process. We can now break down new features...
Overall LaunchDarkly has been great for our development process. We can now break down new features into smaller tickets and deploy them bit by bit, holding off on production release until the entire feature is ready. In the event of bugs, we can quickly hide a feature until those bugs are addressed.
Pros
LaunchDarkly makes it very easy to develop and deploy new features in small steps without worrying about its impact on your production environment. By being able to hide new features behind feature flags, you can employ a Work In Progress development model, allowing you to develop features with a continuous delivery method in mind
Cons
It can be a bit tricky to implement the provider into your React application but once its established, using the LaunchDarkly hook couldn't be simpler
- Industry: Human Resources
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Awesome customer support and great features
Reviewed on 07/04/2021
Pros
The customer support team is very hands on.
Useful and customizable features
Cons
I do not have any complaints, the team does a great job helping me with any gaps
- Industry: Outsourcing/Offshoring
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best feature flag app I’ve found
Reviewed on 23/11/2023
Pros
Easy to use, it has % roll outs, very easy to target whatever you want. Best in class “boolean as a service”.
Cons
Nothing that comes to my mind that would be a con to LD
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Ease of Use
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
"LaunchDarkly is Lighting the business"
Reviewed on 01/07/2021
Deployment volumes are significantly increased in our organization and easy to manage.
Deployment volumes are significantly increased in our organization and easy to manage.
Pros
Reporting , analyzing and integration is much easy and end user efficacy is high while working with LD API.
Cons
Overall nothing ti point out dark side of LD software
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Awesome tool to get started with experimentation
Reviewed on 30/06/2023
We're using LaunchDarkly for experiments and continuous deployments, and it's working great for...
We're using LaunchDarkly for experiments and continuous deployments, and it's working great for that.
Pros
Launchdarkly is so easy to learn, and really easy to setup, at least with react and nodeJs. It has helped our development speed by a lot.
Cons
Nothing to dislike really. Haven't found anything that I'm missing so far. Better integration to Segment would be nice to have.
- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great product. does what it's supposed to do.
Reviewed on 11/03/2021
Pros
- integration was very simple
- very reliable, never went down on us
Cons
- the flags can be confusing from time to time but it seems to be a use case issue.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
LaunchDarkly Overall Usage review
Reviewed on 04/03/2021
Overall, has been a great experience working with LaunchDarkly and making use of Feature flags was...
Overall, has been a great experience working with LaunchDarkly and making use of Feature flags was never this easy.
Pros
Ease of Use, excellent documentation, toggle of feature flags and API calls are way simplified than other tools can offer. And the support team was exceptionally helpful when needed.
Cons
Roles assignments could have been a little more fine grained.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great for launching beta features
Reviewed on 07/04/2021
Pros
Great for rolling out features slowly for beta testing in production.
Cons
The pricing is expensive to get enough users to make auditing sensible. Thats fine while we are developing but once we fully go to production we will need to pay a lot more money to get value from it.
- Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Simple feature-flag management
Reviewed on 19/12/2021
Pros
Its’s easy to manage feature flags across multiple application environments, from development to production.
Cons
If you want simple Boolean flags per environment, the available configuration options are a bit confusing or overwhelming at first.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used for 6-12 months
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Robust platform
Reviewed on 23/03/2021
Pros
Great software overall! Speeds up the development process and increases code quality at the same time.
Cons
Works perfectly for us, no issues were experienced.
- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Usable feature toggle service
Reviewed on 27/01/2022
Pros
We adopted this last year and its been working well so far.
Cons
Cost is probably a consideration for this.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
great for feature flags
Reviewed on 26/08/2021
Pros
Very easy for product managers and non technical people to easily deploy feature flags for some customers.
Cons
Still requires a network call when first loaded which can increase response times on APIs
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used for 1-5 months
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- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simplified Delivery
Reviewed on 07/04/2021
Pros
Straight forward platform and easy to use Dashboard broken down by sections make the overall scalability manageable for any size organization.
Cons
Would like to see button on the flag in the tree view that provides overview similar to dashboard - across the environments.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Getting features out of the dark
Reviewed on 07/04/2021
Gave us a long trial to get started (extended multiple times), then once it was live it worked well.
Gave us a long trial to get started (extended multiple times), then once it was live it worked well.
Pros
Fast setup, easy to learn interface, fast toggle of features
Cons
Limited seats for developers/PMs/designers
