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Show HN: Use Google Sheets to do realtime feature flagging (github.com/stillmatic)
2 points by huac on June 30, 2023 | hide | past | favorite
Feature flags are useful tools to manage rollouts, perform experimentation, and much more. There's lots of companies doing serious stuff in this space, eg LaunchDarkly, Split, Optimizely, etc; two of my previous employers rolled their own experimentation platforms with tons of staffing.

However, I needed something way simpler and ideally free. So -- why not use Google Sheets as the backend? You can control who has access to read/edit flag values, there's audit history, it's incredibly simple to use. I intend to use this in production for a while, there's almost certainly a scale at which it won't make sense, but that'll be a problem for a different time.



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