Log Harvestor

Nice! This looks really cool. So what makes this different than Optimizely or Launch Darkly?

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3yr ago

Solomon Bush

Log Harvestor

Also, I like your incentive for beta testers! Great idea!

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3yr ago

Sam Jones

Astrel

Maker

@solomon_bush thanks for the kind words Solomon! In terms of the difference between us and Optimizely or LaunchDarkly, well we are doing more by doing less. Both of those platforms focus fairly heavily on the roll out side of things, with complex audience/cohort management. Astrel aims to be simpler and focus on providing some in-depth management to each aspect of your configuration - not just feature flags. Firebase's remote config features are more closely what we are aiming for - except we are not Google ;) It's super early days for us and we have lots of ideas to improve but we are trying to focus on gathering feedback and build the features that matter the most to users. Thanks again! :)

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3yr ago

Solomon Bush

Log Harvestor

@slashequip Awesome! Thanks for the clarification. I have definitely needed something like this for Log Harvestor.

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3yr ago

Solomon Bush

Log Harvestor

@slashequip Just tried it out. Works great. Just one issue with the documentation. You need to change the POST to a GET request. That's the only way I was able to retrieve my 'Aspects' :)

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3yr ago

Sam Jones

Astrel

Maker

@solomon_bush Log Harvestor looks really interesting! Great spot on the HTTP method, thank you, I will get that changed!

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3yr ago

Tinkerwell

This is a great idea! :) I just signed up and will give it a try in one of my side projects soon. Just noticed two things: I think it would be great to have a little onboarding for non-tech folks, maybe even just with a hint to the docs or what the developer has to do to integrate it (calling the API, installing the package, etc.). I created an aspect for testing and it would be great if the slug is kind of pre-filled for convenience. But that's just a little one. Otherwise: Nicely done! 🙏

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4yr ago

Loris Leiva

Astrel

Maker

@dianawebdev Hey Diana! Thank you so much for your support and your feedback! You're absolutely right about both things. I'm going to start working on the first point today to make the onboarding easier for other hunters. Thanks again! 🥰

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4yr ago

Loris Leiva

Astrel

Maker

Fellow humans and hunters 👋 Astrel is a web app, and API, that allows you and your team to better manage remote config orchestration. And by that, I mean the ability to manage your own application’s configuration, remotely, as well as synchronize that configuration across multiple distributed versions of that application to keep everything aligned. It helps shift the power and responsibility of developers and engineers from having to manage and maintain certain aspects of your application over to any member of your team. So the happy folks over in marketing can edit copy, those serious characters in sales can update prices, whilst that cheeky CEO no longer needs to commit code to give that special customer some increased limits. This can all be done from Astrel whilst having affects in multiple places across your application. When you build your application with an Astrel-centered approach you build configurable features, allowing you to focus on ‘the next thing’ whilst giving the power to tweak back to your team. Building features this way also empowers engineers. Having a nice UI for managing the number of queue workers or balancing the number of jobs a command might queue, for example. Now you no longer need to create a merge request, run it through CI and wait for a deployment, just a couple of clicks and your configuration is updated across all your applications. Embracing remote config orchestration is going to make building and maintaining applications a hell of a lot easier. Astrel has just been released in beta, we have so many more features lined up but we are getting so much day one value from it that we couldn’t keep it to ourselves any longer! You can get started with Astrel today for free whilst in Beta! This helps us build the features that matter the most to our users before we find a pricing we're comfortable with. And to celebrate our Product Hunt launch, if you register today and give us some valuable feedback, we will grant you a lifetime access to our future paid plan no matter its price!

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4yr ago