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July 17, 2024 - Better than feature flags
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👋 Hey there and welcome back to Product Hunt Dev (formerly WeirdWideWeb). Today’s highlighted products are not only useful, they have great names (Lekko and Kusho) that are worth a Google. Let’s get into it.
TOP LAUNCH
Dynamic configuration that's easier to debug
Ever wonder what tools FAANG companies have access to that you don’t? I didn’t think much of it (except the free food and laundry service) until Lekko launched.
Lekko is a tool that aims to improve the shortfalls of feature flagging, like debugging, exposing applications to misconfigs, and wasted engineering time in total. Lekko wraps functions in your code, making them runtime configurable by any users in the company, from PMs to marketing teams.
“Instead of defining feature flags in an external store, Lekko allows engineers to decorate functions written in their native language,” explains founder Konrad Niemiec. “Lekko wraps these functions to make them changeable at runtime through our web-based UI for software engineers and teammates who don’t write code.” SinceLekko sits in your code, it’s easy to test locally and doesn’t bypass CI/CD.
Lekko also lets you group configurable functions. So let’s say you have ten binary flags — there are 1,204 configurations those could take. Defining legitimate configurations allows for daily changes to be handed off to product, customer success, or sales without creating risks or interrupting engineers.
Konrad Niemiec started Lekko after working at Uber and moving on to a new company. He realized that the dynamic configuration system that he used at Uber could be useful at his new company. One thing’s for sure: Lekko is definitely more helpful than those “day in the life” FAANG influencer videos.
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You want those enterprise customers, but are you ready for them?
The building blocks to become Enterprise Ready are already here, through WorkOS. It's a modern identity platform built for B2B SaaS companies, with flexible and easy-to-use APIs to meet the needs of enterprise customers faster.
WorkOS brings a modular approach to B2B auth, with enterprise features like SSO, SCIM, and User Management. The APIs are designed to provide an effortless experience from your first user through to your largest customer.
It's free for up to 1 million MAUs and hundreds of high-growth scale-ups like Vercel, Webflow, and Loom are already using WorkOS.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT
Test and debug your APIs faster
After years of building, testing, and releasing products to massive audiences, cofounders Abhishek Saikia and Sourabh Gawande decided to collaborate and explore ways to make the testing process more intuitive. The result is KushoAI.
Kusho is an AI agent explicitly designed for API testing. It helps developers automatically find bugs in their APIs before they deploy them. Drop in an API spec, and Kusho will generate an exhaustive set of tests based on real-world scenarios to identify any issues that could break your code in production.
From there, you can run each test individually if you want to go through everything with a fine-tooth comb or bundle them up and run them simultaneously. Kusho will then use AI to generate detailed assertions for each scenario so you can test the accuracy and reliability of your APIs.
WOAH
💊 A new TED talk is getting attention on social as a clip spreads of a man swallowing a pill camera on-stage. The man is, of course, the cofounder and an engineer of the company behind the pill — Pillbot by Endiatx. Pillbot was made to give physicians a live feed of the inside of the human body as an alternative to endoscopy. I’ll link to the clip right here if you want to see what the inside of my guy’s tummy looks like. Pillbot is going through clinical trials now and awaiting FDA clearance.
CAT NIPS
DevOps and Productivity
Archie can take a single prompt or document and build complete requirements/PRDs, designs, architecture, plans, and SOWs, transforming the pre-development process.*
PullNotifier is a Slack app to view pull request statuses within your workspace without getting spammed with notifications.
Archfy lets you build a component roadmap to easily understand your product’s architecture before building.
Front-end
AiEditoris an open-source, out-of-the-box, AI-powered rich text editor. It supports any front-end framework and is markdown-friendly.
Binary Translator is a tool for students that translates binary to text and text to binary, then lets you copy or share the results.
npmpackage.info is a platform that provides detailed insights into npm packages.
Back-end and Server-side
Skyport is an open-source panel for managing and operating game servers and applications built using Node.js with Express and Dockerode.
CommandAI is a set of command line tools to make your life easier, whether querying databases, running shell scripts, or chatting with an AI.
Monitoring and Security
Think of HackGATE like Cloudfare, but designed specifically for penetration testing and ethical hacking work.
KubeNodeUsage is a terminal-based app designed to help you visualize the Kubernetes node usage of your apps.
WebGazer’s free monitoring suite monitors your websites, APIs, cron jobs, with real-time alerts for downtime, performance issues, and SSL problems.
AI
Korvus consolidates the entire RAG workflow into a single SQL query, reducing architectural complexity and latency.
Scade.pro is a no-code platform for integrating audio, image, text, and video AI models into your product.
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Until next week
Written by Aaron O’Leary and Sarah Wright.
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