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Open Source Feature Flagging and Remote Config Service. Host on-prem or use our hosted version at https://flagsmith.com/

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Show HN: We built an open-source LaunchDarkly alternative for B2Bs | Feb 2023
Looks good. My friend launched Flagsmith a few years back too -https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith. I have used it on a few of my own projects and it’s been great/easy to integrate
OpenFeature – open standard for feature flags | May 2022
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I believe the idea is that you run feature flag management as a separate service. It's not meant for desktop software but rather as a component of a microservices architecture. This is not uncommon - I know at least one of the FAANGs has something like this internally.

Flagsmith [1] (formerly Bullet Train) is another open source feature-flags-as-a-service software, and they have their own SaaS offering now.

1. https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith
Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags? | Jan 2022
Also 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 you start using and relying on flags, it's hard to go back, and helps with a bunch of 'good' engineering processes and patterns.

Another interesting aspect is that once you have gated a feature based on a flag, you can then AB test that feature, almost for free, as you have a way of bucketing users and showing or hiding the feature using most feature flag platforms.

[0] https://flagsmith.com/ & https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith

Flags vs. Gates | Nov 2021
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Shameless plug (it's my project!), but there's also Flagsmith - https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith

For completeness, the other OS projects I know of are:

- https://github.com/markphelps/flipt

- https://github.com/featurehub-io/featurehub

- https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper