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by bpicolo 3026 days ago
Yeah, the product looks super cool, congratulations on the launch. Definitely have work cut out for you to compete with launchdarkly, but it feels like the market penetration for such services is currently on the low end either way. Pricing plans allowing for more experimentation definitely give you an edge here (and definitely make me want to try out the project in my own side projects).

The pricing partially based on API calls feels somewhat vague though, it's tough to have any idea what an API call is in airship, especially given the abstraction level of the client where you explicitly remove the API from the sight of the developer. .1ms timings suggests it's not per flag, but then I see "Every time you check whether a User or an object should clear a particular gate". With that context 10,000 (or 75,000) seems very low - with 30 feature flags on a page you'd only be able to load 300 pages total across all users. It doesn't feel like I can judge how the API limits translate to real world usage, even though I do see the notes on the pricing page.

One thing I might recommend for the future as a killer feature is considering tooling around application performance between two cohorts. I've definitely seen cases where toggling a feature flag changes performance from 100ms to 800ms and nobody bats an eye because most small (and probably most large) organizations have crummy performance monitoring/tooling (PMs would probably love this too for projects with explicit performance goals).

What's the expected time in Airship for clients to pick up new configurations currently?