I built a feature flag platform because existing ones felt overkill
Hey everyone 👋
I built a feature flag platform called Supaship (supaship.com). Here's the honest reason why.
Every tool I tried, LaunchDarkly, DevCycle, and even self-hosted options, felt like standing up an entire platform just to toggle a boolean. The setup overhead, the complex dashboards, the enterprise pricing. It was too much for what I actually needed.
So I asked myself: what does a feature flag actually need?
- Define it
- Control who sees it
- Roll it out gradually
Nothing more, nothing less. That's Supaship.
All with a clean and self-explanatory UI, where you can figure out everything in five minutes.
And the one thing I didn't want to compromise on was speed. Flags are evaluated on an edge network, so no matter where your users are, evaluation happens in under 50ms. Fast flags, simple setup, no bloat.
I'm curious if others have felt this friction. Are you using feature flags in your projects? What's your current setup, rolling your own, using a service, or just skipping them altogether?
Happy to share more about the technical decisions behind it if anyone's interested.
