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Show HN: A LaunchDarkly competitor, focused on pricing and product (tggl.io)

32 points by nick-keller ↗ HN
Hey HN,

I have been working on tggl.io as my main “side” project for over a year now. I was frustrated with existing feature flagging tools (you’ve probably heard of LaunchDarkly’s reputation) and saw an opportunity to innovate on two fronts:

(i) Pricing: it gets very expensive very fast. I’ve made all technical decisions with the goal of limiting stupid expenses and ended up being 2x to 3x cheaper on larger deals.

(ii) Product: existing solutions are just painful to use. Tggl focuses on product-tech collaboration and aims to offer a much better experience.

As the customer base is growing and deals are getting bigger, I am actively seeking as much feedback as possible on both the tool itself and the landing pages.

I added a 30-day trial with no credit card if you want to play with it. All SDKs, the core, and the proxy are open-source: https://github.com/Tggl

19 comments

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Diwann
And the name is great too!
danolife
I have used LaunchDarkly in the past and yeah it's kind of a pain to use. I'm curious of what tggl offers that the others don't
nick-keller
Feature-wise you'll find everything you would expect from a feature flag tool. Where Tggl stands out is when you start to actually use it in a team, you get the job done much faster, and non-technical people actually enjoy using it.

The competition focuses on "a tool for devs" whereas Tggl's positioning is around product-tech collaboration.

gayota
Curious to see what this tool has to offer. Very attractive pricing also.
nick-keller
Tggl is priced just a tiny bit cheaper than the competition for small teams, and the gap gets really noticeable for medium to large teams.
bejonster
Thanks for sharing nick-keller! I will test this week using the 30-day trial.
krasun
Nick, so you don't open-source only UI?
nick-keller
Yes, everything is open-source except for the actual app that lets you manage flags
S4phyre
So cool. I look into this
KomoD
These are the most obvious fake comments I've ever seen, like are you serious?
mdrzn
Definitely astroturfed itself, these accounts are not even passing for real.
nick-keller
I obviously shared a link to this thread with friends asking for their support, I guess they just wanted to help
KomoD
They're all 1 or less karma, barely used, some inactive for years (e.g. one didn't make a single comment since 2014 until this post), some have had no previous comments
nick-keller
I would assume those are people who I know directly yes, I'm not sure I understand what your point is.