Every feature carries a maintenance bill that comes due long after the launch post. The useful discipline is deciding, up front, who is going to pay it.
This piece walks through how we think about it at Paycux, what we have changed our minds about, and where the sharp edges are.
Why use feature flags for B2B SaaS?
That brings us to why use feature flags for b2b saas?. Naming is design work. If the team argues about what to call something, the disagreement is usually about what it is, and shipping before that is settled means shipping the confusion to customers.
Naming is design work. If the team argues about what to call something, the disagreement is usually about what it is, and shipping before that is settled means shipping the confusion to customers.
Common ways to manage feature access
Common ways to manage feature access deserves its own treatment. Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.
Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.
- Choose defaults as carefully as features
- Settle the name before you ship the thing
- Ship the smallest honest version
- Say plainly what the feature does not do
How Paycux Feature Flags work
Consider how paycux feature flags work. Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.
Naming is design work. If the team argues about what to call something, the disagreement is usually about what it is, and shipping before that is settled means shipping the confusion to customers.
Step 1: Create a feature flag
Consider step 1: create a feature flag. Defaults are the product. Most people will never open the settings screen, which means the behaviour you chose for them is the behaviour they will experience forever.
Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.
Naming is design work.
Step 2: Assign the flag to an organization
That brings us to step 2: assign the flag to an organization. Defaults are the product. Most people will never open the settings screen, which means the behaviour you chose for them is the behaviour they will experience forever.
Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.
Step 3: Enable the feature flag
Step 3: Enable the feature flag is where this gets concrete. Naming is design work. If the team argues about what to call something, the disagreement is usually about what it is, and shipping before that is settled means shipping the confusion to customers.
Ship the smallest version that is honest about its limits. A feature that does one thing completely beats one that does five things with an asterisk on each.
Step 4: Use the feature flag in your app
Step 4: Use the feature flag in your app deserves its own treatment. Naming is design work. If the team argues about what to call something, the disagreement is usually about what it is, and shipping before that is settled means shipping the confusion to customers.
Defaults are the product. Most people will never open the settings screen, which means the behaviour you chose for them is the behaviour they will experience forever.
Where this leaves us
None of this is exotic. It is the ordinary discipline of deciding what you own, writing down what you assume, and making the failures loud enough to notice.
If you are working through the same problem and want to compare notes, the docs cover the mechanics and the console shows the behaviour on your own data.
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