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I saw this exact same sentiment when Optimizely was announced. Now, I cringe when people say they implemented their own A/B system (similar to what you wrote ab
by slap_shot 10y ago
I saw this exact same sentiment when Optimizely was announced. Now, I cringe when people say they implemented their own A/B system (similar to what you wrote above). If you're running a business you probably need to spend your development efforts elsewhere.
- primitivesuave 10y agoIn general, I'd say most tech businesses are aware of Optimizely and the value proposition is quite compelling. I certainly wouldn't try to save money on our Optimizely spend by building any part of their system myself. But if I could save the company $700/month (the price for 50k MAU, which doesn't even cover our requirements) by implementing something as simple as feature flags, I'd add it to our development roadmap. For smaller companies, ~$10k a year is not trivial. However, I acknowledge that I may be vastly oversimplifying, and am not knowledgeable enough about LaunchDarkly to speak so brazenly about how I could do it myself. My main point is that as a small web development company, we have this feature in our builds already, and it only cost us a couple hours of development time to implement it.
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- daveguy 10y agoPersonally I think the most cringe worthy thing about optimizely is that they no longer have up front pricing. With frameworks that go far beyond AB testing for most backends why would you lock into something like optimizely: https://github.com/github/scientist https://github.com/github/scientist