You might have found your way here because of Peter's popular feature flagging Laravel package, or perhaps you follow Caroline's sporatic and sometimes clever tweets, or maybe you've read some of our open build articles. Whichever way you've found us, we are happy you are here. DON'T LEAVE! Oh, sorry, that was a bit full-on. I'm just keen.
Ok, straight to the point. I like your style.
We are an engineer and a designer who work together daily and have a collaborative rhythm that would even make Jedward jealous.
We've gone through all the little awkward and painful moments that can crop up naturally in a product development cycle. You know, the ones:
- Charlie, the engineer, has smashed it. All their code is complete, perfect and ready for merging.
- But Charlie has to wait until Jonathan, the marketer, is ready to release the feature to users.
- While waiting, other pull requests cause merge conflicts, triggering new code reviews and testing, which bursts Charlie's bubble.
- But Jonathan is now ready to go and has to wait on Charlie to finish up, so Jonathan delays the launch and creates a new plan.
- Now Charlie is ready, but Jonathan's timing doesn't match, so we are back with Charlie waiting and accumulating merge knock-ons.
Booooo.. hisssssss.... This sucks!
We are fully embracing the power of feature flagging as a potential red pill to help solve the headache of multi-feature-branch development. We are building off the learnings gained from Peter's open-source feature flag package and wrapping it in a powerful dashboard which you can install into Laravel your projects.
And we love Laravel. It's easy to use, well documented and empowers you to just get on with building cool stuff. The community around Laravel is wonderfully welcoming, supportive and down-to-earth. So you better believe we are chucking loads of effort to keep in line with that vision that brings you instant value.
We wrote up something much more comprehensive about the features we are going to offer on our website, so clicky click over there. Spoiler alert: Customer segmentation, scheduling and gradual launch rollout, intuitive user experience and more.
Check out our website, which goes into a little more detail about the benefits and theory. Then join our waitlist to keep up to date with all our progress. We are attempting to build in the open, so give us a follow on the Twitters, @SlyFireFox and @Carolinepixels to read about the daily grind.