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Show HN: I created a remote config tool for Developers and small Startups
Hello everyone,
I created Nedoto: a tool that in my experience is useful for developers and small businesses.
Actually, we are using it in one of our projects in production.
This tool allows you to configure your projects in one place (using my tool) and retrieve the configuration via API.
The simplest use case is enabling or disabling feature flags on-demand in your smartphone app or website or IoT.
To make it easier to use and implement I wrote a Laravel plugin that is useful for interacting with the API programmatically and a Typescript library with real-time functionality.
The tool I created also offers a CDN where to store your assets (images, documents, whatever) and deliver them.
I know there are other tools like this outside, first of all, Firebase, but for me is too complex to use when you only need to store your config as a JSON, your assets, and retrieve/push them - nothing more.
What do you think, it could be useful and a valid alternative compared to other tools outside?
- MisterKent 2y agoWe just use LaunchDarkly for config and S3 behind a CDN for assets. S3s Ux is serviceable. LD (and the other feature flag services), allow flighting, population management etc. as well. It's unclear to me, where the value is here as a "config" solution vs the feature flag solution they offer.
- nedoto 2y agoHey, thanks for your feedback! LaunchDarkly for sure is a complete solution with a lot of options. It depends on the use case and the experience. As you said, you are using S3 as object storage and Cloudfront as a CDN to deliver the assets, but not everyone has your knowledge and I feel there is a need for a simple solution where: - store the config as a JSON (or feature flags if you will) - store the assets (without having to manually or programmatically invalidate the cache) - retrieve the config via API - or - push the config in real-time and let your code react to this event I hope I was clear enough, if not, just let me know.