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Build the feature that matters to your audience

Brace yourselves for what is new in Progressively 😎...

👉 Back to the roots 👈

Some months ago, I wanted to launch Progressively as a SaaS and to be honest, I totally failed. The product was buggy, I didn't have time to communicate around the tool nor to invest on marketing and my working capacity was very low.

It's been some time now, and I've finally decided to go back to my roots and focus on building the community around the tool. As such, Progressively is not a SaaS product anymore: it's an open source software that you can self-host and use on your own machine. Take it, run it and own the data. Get a good grasp of what it is, what it lacks, help us understand what you like and dislike about the tool so that we can make it even better :).

👉 Anonymous analytics 👈

At the beginning, I've built Progressively to fix the issues of other feature flags products having huge JavaScript libraries that killed the browser performances. My intention was to provide a simple tool, flexible enough that is very lightweight and that developpers can embed in their page easily. I was obviously targetting a technical audience.

Regarding the product folks, nothing was so much interesting for them: I was providing the basic features of a feature flag software. So why would they use Progressively instead of a way more mainstream solution that has shown scalability over years?

Let's me hype you folks: as of today, Progressively comes with a built-in anonymous analytics tool baked-in.

Why? Because I'm very confident that product people should take decisions based on data. And what could be better than a product that is built specifically for the purpose of understanding the audience behaviour on a given app?

In Progressively, you will soon be able to cross the analytics data and the feature flag evaluations to understand what actions are your users making under which constraints (from the moment they evaluate a flag to the moment you define as "converted").

👉 A CLI tool to drive the feature flag from the terminal 👈

As a developper, I love to use CLI tools. For instance, I love how fly.io has made possible the deployment of apps directly from my terminal. We wanted to create something similar but for driving the feature flags of a project.

And guess what?

Maxime Blanc has joined the team and created that CLI! It's open source, and is ready to be used. You should definitely give it a try!

Not hyped yet? You can generate the type definition of your features flags in TypeScript using this CLI 😎.

👉 Deploying with official docker images 👈

It's raining new things for Christmas this year 🎄. Until now, when you wanted to deploy Progressively, you only had 2 solutions: you run it with docker-compose or you get the repo locally, install the dependencies, build the tool and run the services

As of today, Progressively comes with 2 official images for running the frontend and the backend! Deploy it wherever you want. We have created a few guides to help you get started! (Except even more to come)

👉 A new website 👈

We needed a good one ! And it's now live ! The homepage of Progressively has been re-done and it uses the privacy friendly analytics feature of my own instance of Progressively to get insights on how users are interacting with the homepage.

Excited? Come, join the community and visit https://progressively.app !