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Show HN: FeatureFlare – Feature flags for SaaS teams tired of rolling their own
by jsonstcyr | 2026-02-20 20:41:51+00:00
## Show HN: FeatureFlare – Feature flags for small SaaS teams tired of rolling their own

Hi HN,

At several companies I worked at, feature flags followed the same pattern:

Someone suggests LaunchDarkly.
Everyone agrees it’s solid.
Then someone sees the pricing.
The team decides to “just build something simple.”

A few months later:

- Flags scattered across the codebase
- No consistent rollout logic
- No structured targeting
- Weak environment separation
- No proper kill switch
- Old flags never cleaned up

Rolling your own starts simple but slowly becomes infrastructure you didn’t intend to maintain.

After seeing this happen more than once, I built FeatureFlare:

https://featureflare.com/

The goal isn’t to compete with enterprise platforms. It’s to serve small SaaS teams (1–10 engineers) that want proper feature flagging without sales calls or enterprise overhead.

Core functionality:

- Per-environment flags
- Percentage rollouts
- Rule-based targeting
- Immediate kill switches
- Simple API and SDK usage

The focus is on keeping flag logic centralized and structured so it doesn’t turn into conditionals scattered across the codebase.

I’d really appreciate feedback on:

- Is this actually a meaningful gap?
- Do most small teams just roll their own?
- What would make you not build this internally?

Happy to answer any technical questions about architecture, scaling model, or tradeoffs.
by subvertio | 2026-02-20 20:43:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building GFC Coin as an experiment in decentralized social infrastructure.

The core idea is a “proof-of-data transfer” model where content ownership and feed interactions are recorded on-chain rather than controlled by a central platform.

Current alpha includes:

A social feed layer

Wallet-linked identity

Early mechanics for tracking data ownership

This is still early and very much experimental.

I’m especially interested in feedback on:

Scalability tradeoffs for on-chain feeds

Whether social interactions should ever live fully on-chain

Better models for creator ownership without breaking UX

Would appreciate technical critique. Contact me on the website for access to the alpha! Thanks!
by RussianCow | 2026-02-20 20:43:17+00:00
> By law they are required to do whatever they can to maximize profits.

I know it's a nit-pick, but I hate that this always gets brought up when it's not actually true. Public corporations face pressure from investors to maximize returns, sure, but there is no law stating that they have to maximize profits at all costs. Public companies can (and often do) act against the interest of immediate profits for some other gain. The only real leverage that investors have is the board's ability to fire executives, but that assumes that they have the necessary votes to do so. As a counter-example, Mark Zuckerberg still controls the majority of voting power at Meta, so he can effectively do whatever he wants with the company without major consequence (assuming you don't consider stock price fluctuations "major").

But I say this not to take away from your broader point, which I agree with: the short-term profit-maximizing culture is indeed the default when it comes to publicly traded corporations. It just isn't something inherent in being publicly traded, and in the inverse, private companies often have the same kind of culture, so that's not a silver bullet either.
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-20 20:43:32+00:00
Get a large phone vendor to get a flagship phone with Graphene or so on the market. Otherwise nothing will happen. Even starting with the smaller ones like Blackview would do something. But almost no one will do that because users are said to want android; like my parents care... But they will care of course when their banking app stops working... That is the real issue imho.
by Eiganval | 2026-02-20 20:43:39+00:00
Looking ahead a bit, how do you see the key ownership / trust model evolving as systems scale?

Right now it seems very reasonable for the human-in-the-loop to be the signing authority, which makes the cryptographic certificates more about binding human authorization to agent actions than proving agent correctness.

As agents become more autonomous or higher-throughput, do you imagine humans delegating scoped signing authority to sub-agents? time or capability-limited keys? multi-sig / quorum models where humans only intervene on boundary cases?

Curious how you’re thinking about preserving accountability and auditability as the human loop inevitably gets thinner.
by rmac | 2026-02-20 20:44:00+00:00
When the norm on HF daily papes is a pdf, a website, & a git, corp. thinkpieces like this are going to have to work a lot harder to get any meaningful engagement and onward corp word-of-mouth. like i now think stripe has fallen a but, where before they were tier...

this is the risk you run putting out subpar content in a world where the norms and appetites shift daily. slightly unfair? yes, as stripe has never been one to shine in the "corp infra open source" category tho; Which is crazy because it doesn't reflect the ridiculous talent they have internally.
by skeledrew | 2026-02-20 20:44:30+00:00
Nope, there's no tie-in sale[0] as you do not pay for the apps. And particularly, there's no real competition angle[1] as the market is loaded with LLM service providers, not to mention downloadable options.

There's a reason in this particular case why the particular APIs aren't documented: they aren't intended for public use. And they've made it crystal clear, so all you have to do now is take your wallet somewhere that offers the access you desire. You have no case here.

[0] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tie-in

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
by omnimus | 2026-02-20 20:44:38+00:00
I got interested because i am looking to switch to european email service because of law requirements and i know MailerLite (their other product).

But after looking at their site: "MailerSend is a United States-registered company."

I understand they are based in EU but the main issue is that if they are registered in US then thanks to CLOUD Act afaik it doesn't really matter.
by jhogervorst | 2026-02-20 20:44:40+00:00
> There's also the matter that, ethically, openprovider seems to be heavily focusing on domain name speculators as clients

Do you have more info about that? I'm a customer of them and didn't know this.

I actually noticed that quite a lot of (smaller) hosting providers are also customers of Openprovider. (When transferring some domains from other providers to my account as Openprovider, they turned out to be internal transfers.) So I'm a bit surprised about it.
by cyberpunk | 2026-02-20 20:44:41+00:00
Doesn’t anyone use debuggers anymore?

When I have a codebase I dont know or didn’t touch in some time and there’s a bug, first step is reproduce it an then set a breakpoint early on somewhere, crab some coffee and spend some time to step through it looking at state until I know what’s happening and from there its usually kind of obvious.

Why would one need a graph view to learn a codebase when you can just slap a red dot next to the route and step a few times?
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-20 20:44:55+00:00
> AI companies will in the near future declare ownership of all software code developed using their software.

(X) Doubt

Copyright law is WEEEEEEIRRRDD and our in-house lawyer is very much into that, personally and professionally. An example they gave us during a presentation:

A monkey took a selfie of itself in 2011. We still don't know who has the copyright to that image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

IIRC the latest resolution is "it's not the monkey", but nobody has ruled the photographer has copyright either. =)

Copyright law has this thing called "human authorship" that's required to apply copyright to a work. Animals and machines can't have a copyright to anything.

A second example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarya_of_the_Dawn

A comic generated with Midjourney had its copyright revoked when it was discovered all of the art was done with Generative AI.

AI companies have absolutely mindboggling amounts of money, but removing the human authorship requirement from copyright is beyond even them in my non-lawyer opinion. It would bring the whole system crashing down and not in a fun way for anyone.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-02-20 20:45:27+00:00
> Build scripts should not run sudo or anything similar. If it does that anyway, it’s wrong. At best, it’s a packaging error, as sudo shouldn’t be expected to work in a non-interactive environment like a build chroot. Sometimes a packager mistakenly tries to move package files into place instead of adding them to the package.

Something I've noticed over time is that security and quality are connected, not inherently but in that there's a lot of overlap. Reviewing an AUR package should include making sure that it doesn't use sudo and doesn't move files into place directly because that's a possible flag for malicious behavior. But equally, sudo is unreliable in the build environment ("sudo shouldn’t be expected to work in a non-interactive environment like a build chroot"), and trying to directly place files instead of packaging them means the package won't upgrade, downgrade, or uninstall cleanly, and won't properly attribute files when you ask the system what owns them. I don't know how well it generalizes, but heuristically I've moved toward viewing security and quality as sufficiently overlapping that they can be treated as a single area.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-20 20:45:27+00:00
> Predictable result, unpredictable timing.

That wouldn't explain the prediction markets thinking the administration had a double digit chance of winning. The sure things go 99:1.

> Hindsight is, as always, 20/20.

It's not a matter of knowing which docket would be used. Why stay the injunction at all if you think the Supreme Court is going to immediately reverse you?
by curious_af | 2026-02-20 20:45:38+00:00
International flight attendant.
So the algorithms for people that travel internationally a lot are drastically different from the people who remain stationary.
If Facebook wanted to prevent themselves from negative publicity, they might have a different experience for the people who have political power (international travel might be the best proxy for that)

What you're referring to may also be part of their XCheck program which came to light back in 2021
by overgard | 2026-02-20 20:45:48+00:00
Remember when Visual Basic was making everyone a programmer too?

(btw, warm fuzzies for VB since that's what I learned on! But ultimately, those VB tools business people were making were:

1) Useful, actually!

2) Didn't replace professional software. Usually it'd hit a point where if it needed to evolve past its initial functionality it probably required an actual software developer. (IE, not using Access as a database and all the other eccentricities of VB apps at that time)
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-20 20:46:03+00:00
Desktop OSes and their derivatives are woefully behind in this regard, and unfortunately the will to bring them up to par is incredibly weak. Of those in mass use (Qubes OS is neat but its user base isn’t even a rounding error), macOS probably does the most, but it’s still lagging behind iOS and what’s been implemented has come with much consternation from the technically inclined peanut gallery.

I understand some amount of reticence with commercial OSes, but there’s no justification for being against it on open Linux based desktops and mobile OSes. We really need to get past the 90s-minded paradigm of everything having access to everything else all the time with the only (scantly) meaningful safeguards coming in the form of *nix user permissions.
by Klonoar | 2026-02-20 20:46:20+00:00
> Getting macOS code signing and notarization working in CI was honestly the hardest part of this project. If anyone is distributing a macOS app outside the App Store via GitHub Actions, I'm happy to answer questions — the workflow is fully open source.

If anyone wants to see another repo with this, we have it set up for Slippi (and various subprojects, like the Launcher): https://github.com/project-slippi/Ishiiruka

I'm thankful that it's largely a "once it's working, it rarely breaks". If it does break, it's usually because I have to sign in to the developer portal and accept some contract somewhere. Error messages in CI rarely indicate this is the case sadly.
by RASBR89 | 2026-02-20 20:46:24+00:00
Anecdotal but the three times I’ve been in the states recently I come away feeling like trash. When I’m there I crave salads and green food pretty fast.

It feels like, as a tourist, unless you’re making food yourself from scratch the ingredients used in most food are not good for you.

I don’t feel that way holidaying in other countries..
by pyreko | 2026-02-20 20:46:57+00:00
I have this with Twitter surprisingly.

I only use it for animal pictures, art, and to follow artists. I usually just use the Following page, but my FYP is always just... animal pictures and art, exactly what I want. No weird right wing shit, no weird crypto shit, no drama or ragebait shit, etc... somehow.

I know some day it'll break though.
by deadbabe | 2026-02-20 20:47:04+00:00
Imagine a space ship, hurtling through space, to some destination unknown to passengers. The systems that maintain the ship were all masterfully designed eons ago and the generations of passengers have no idea how they work, but the creators made sure to make them to be self maintaining in perpetuity. The passengers don’t even think about the systems or even have awareness of them, the knowledge of their construction has long been lost. This is the future of technology, the space ship is Earth.
by bubblewand | 2026-02-20 20:47:21+00:00
I've seen into some moderately high levels of "prestigious" business and government circles and I've yet to find any level at which everyone suddenly becomes as competent and sharp as I'd have expected them to be, as a child and young adult (before I saw what I've seen and learned that the norm is morons and liars running everything and operating terrifically dysfunctional organizations... everywhere, apparently, regardless how high up the hierarchy you go). And actually, not only is there no step at which they suddenly become so, people don't even seem to gradually tend to brighter or generally better, on average, as you move "upward"... at all! Or perhaps only weakly so.

Whatever the selection process is for gestures broadly at everything, it's not selecting for being both (hell, often not for either) able and willing to do a good job, so far as what the job is apparently supposed to be. This appears to hold for just about everything, reputation and power be damned. Exceptions of high-functioning small groups or individuals in positions of power or prestige exist, as they do at "lower" levels, but aren't the norm anywhere as far as I've been able to discern.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-20 20:47:28+00:00
I have a very sweet elderly friend of the family who only uses Facebook for church-related stuff, and since I'm "the tech guy" she asked me to look at her facebook and help her understand why she sees so much Trump, right-wing, hateful, violent, "Nazi-adjacent" (interestingly never -overtly- Nazi) stuff in her feed. I didn't have the heart to try to explain to her demographic bias, revealed preferences, and overlapping group interests, so I just said it's probably a software glitch in Facebook.
by tiew9Vii | 2026-02-20 20:47:54+00:00
> Most lay opinions I can find online claim the fast growing birds to have inferior meat quality. I wonder if I could distinguish in a blind taste test.

It’s easy to distinguish.

The fast growing birds are much larger, breasts at least 2x the size of normal chickens.

The larger breasts you notice when cutting them when raw, they often have a tough texture and meat inside like strands. When cooked and chewing it’ll have a hard chewy texture, sometimes feeling raw/uncooked. This is called woody breast.

If you have a standard small chicken breast, the texture feels much more pleasant when eating, like chicken.

I always try to avoid large chicken breasts and get the smallest possible but it’s virtually impossible now unless you live near high end low volume butcher with their own independent supplier.
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-20 20:48:29+00:00
>whether this is something that should be reported to Apple, if Apple will do anything

Lmao Apple will not do anything for actual malware when reported with receipts, besides sending you a form letter assuring you "experts will look into it, now fuck off" then never contact you again. Ask me how I know. To their credit, I suspected they ran it through useless rudimentary automated checks which passed and they were back in business like a day later.

If your expectation is they will do something about shitty coding practices half the App Store would be banned.
by nickff | 2026-02-20 20:48:33+00:00
> "It would help explain why a lot of "poorer" countries reportedly don't feel poorer to live in, for a normal family, than the US."

There are many sources for purchasing power parity (PPP) corrected GDP if you're looking for a source on this. PPP-correction does indeed reduce the disparities, but does not eliminate them. It's also tough to judge relative living standards as a tourist or during a short-term stay in a poorer country, as one is generally exposed to 'nice' subset of locales and people.
by joshfraser | 2026-02-20 20:48:37+00:00
For every story like this, there are 10 stories of people who died the old fashioned way behind the wheel.

Accidents like this are obviously tragic, but let's remember that self driving software is already ~10x safer than a human. Unfortunately, lawsuits like this will slow down the rollout of this life-saving technology, resulting in a greater loss of life.
by xg15 | 2026-02-20 20:48:48+00:00
> Roy was still up. He didn’t seem particularly surprised to see me. He and most of the Cluely staff were flopped on a single sofa. All these people had become incredibly rich; previous generations of Silicon Valley founders would have been hosting exorbitant parties. In the Cluely office, they were playing Super Smash Bros. Did they spend every night there? “We’re all feminists here,” Roy said. “We’re usually up at four in the morning. We’re debating the struggles of women in today’s society.”

Noticed this during the crypto hype as well and the articles about SBF-and-friends' Bahamas lifestyle. Are there more "startups" that feel more like VC-funded frat houses than actual businesses?
by randycupertino | 2026-02-20 20:48:49+00:00
> I’m standing outside an Oakland apartment I’m trying to tour, punching the same code into the keypad over and over again. The door won’t budge. My fiancé and I repeatedly call the number provided for “immediate help,” but for 10 minutes, we get nothing but the flat, looping responses of an automated voice.

> Despite the fact that this Jack London Square complex has over 280 units, there is no on-site leasing office and no human agent to answer our questions — or, more importantly, to actually let us in. Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to artificial intelligence. We were trapped in a digital loop until, finally, a human had to intervene and remotely unlock the door for us.

> In my recent East Bay apartment hunt, I encountered AI everywhere I looked, from chipper leasing agents who turned out to be bots to Craigslist scams. While I was surprised to find the landscape so changed from the last time I moved, I quickly learned my experience was not unique.

Having managed 32 units I see why apartment managers want to outsource showings to AI agents if they can. It was easily the biggest time-sink.
by iLemming | 2026-02-20 20:48:51+00:00
hon, this has been "happening" at the time when I grew out of my jquery pants, and still was happening when I was going to my backbone.js induced ptsd therapy sessions; Angular has shipped 20 major versions and React made six rewrites, Next.js switched to rust-based compiler and added the app router, making 15 major revisions - and "web components" still yet "happening". It feels when I finally have grandchildren, it is still be only "happening"... Where's the darn promise? Where the heck is the fame and riches? I've been hearing about this shit for almost two decades now. And have not witnessed it. I hope, it is truly around the corner, but I just fail to see it coming.
by gchamonlive | 2026-02-20 20:49:00+00:00
> This is an LLM-generated article, for anyone who might wish to save the "15 min read" labelled at the top. Recounts an entirely plausible but possibly completely made up narrative of incompetent IT, and contains no real substance.

Nothing in the original message refers to it being clickbait, the core complaint is the LLM-like tone and the lack of substance, which you also just threw it there without references ironically.

> What, exactly, is the problem with disclosing the nature of the article for people who wish to avoid spending their time in that way?

It's alright as long as it's not based on faith or guesswork.
by ben_w | 2026-02-20 20:49:02+00:00
> Your links give examples of campaigns that happened, but didn't quite work. You think the problem is their very happening?

They clearly did work, though.

Problem? No, the problem isn't their very happening, it's more that they are effective strategies. Some also used by advertising agencies.

> And the very fact that you know about child-eating devil-worshiping lizards from Alpha Ceti 5 shows that an opinion is available no matter what propaganda you use against it as long as it's not censored.

I don't know anything about child-eating devil-worshiping lizards from Alpha Ceti 5, that doesn't mean I can't talk about them. It's called "making stuff up".

Not sure where you're going with that sentence though. You do realise, I hope, that this was supposed to be a string of nonsense? That the point was that no matter which half you take from a string of nonsense, you can't combine it with a half-truth to get a full truth, you just get a half truth with a different false part.

Which in this example might be something like "the Alpha Party* caused the 9/11 attacks to cover up how the mind-control chemtrail fluid they were making in the WTC burned hot enough to melt steel beams, and wants to reduce the tax burden on families where the parents earn more than double the national average income between them".

The half-truth remains, at best, a half-truth. But that's the best case, and you only get that if you already knew what part was less than honest before you considered what to dismiss, at which point you didn't need anything from other statements in the first place.

> You can suppress it only by censorship, not by propaganda.

That's the point of disagreement: you, as a human, can only pay attention to so much. For example, if I buy all the ad space around you and fill it with only my own message, that is propaganda that denies the same space to anyone who wants to tell the truth.

> In any case using shitposting sites as a source of information is tricky, journalism isn't that bad yet.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/25/1-in-5-am...

* A made-up party, any similarities to actual persons is coincidence and all the usual disclaimer etc etc.
by aero142 | 2026-02-20 20:49:40+00:00
Instagram is gone as well. Everything is fake in different ways. If the video isn't ai generated, then it's influencers acting out a scenario they think will get engagement. I realized that when it's a real video, there is a caption that says some scenario is happening, but there is nothing in the video that shows that is real. I think people are just reposting videos with different captions and testing out whatever invented scenario make the video have the most views.