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Marvin Frachet

Progressively - Build the feature that matters to your audience

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Progressively makes it possible to build your features iteratively and to understand how your audience behaves when being exposed to them. Take decision based on data and not guts feelings. We do that anonymously, with open source, and it's self-hosted.

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Marvin Frachet
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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 !
Frank Denbow
@mfrachet cool to see a project like this open source. Thought there were some copy things that could have made the page better:
Marvin Frachet
Maker
@frank_denbow thanks a lot for taking the time to provide this kind of feedback :). To answer your question, not a gun person XD, just not a native speaker and I don't always get the underlying meaning of some words :). Regarding the personas, it's still hard for me to have a clear opinion since it can be used both sides. Feature flags + analytics basically equals A/B testing. I saw an opportunity to mix these concepts but yeah, who's the targeted persona? Not sure myself yet :D. Maybe the persona is indie hackers that have to deal with everything to launch something? After watching you browsing the homepage with zero context, man, I need to put more focused information to clearly show what it is and what it does. Reading the page for the first time and you only get a few infos, you're totally right! Concerning the business model: there's none for now. I want to provide a meaningful product (it improves my skills in very different ways), to build a community around the tool (thus the open source stuff) and eventually create a SaaS/PaaS based solution if the community needs one :). My goal is simple: have an impact and help people move faster when building stuff, helping them make thoughtful decisions.
Patrycja Roszczyk
@mfrachet Hi, we create Web Operating System with own app store, where users get software from. Your app is amazing and we decided to enable you to share it to our users 🙂 Can we talk?
Germán Merlo
Hey @mfrachet, great work on the product launch! You've really nailed the feature that matters to your audience - fantastic job! I'm sure they'll love it. Keep up the good work!
Marvin Frachet
Maker
@german_merlo1 thanks for the motivation! Very much appreciated :pray:
Yash
Wow, Marvin, it's great to see the new direction you're taking with Progressively! I love that it's now an open source software, giving developers more control. The built-in anonymous analytics tool sounds interesting - how do you plan on utilizing the data to improve the app? Also, kudos to Maxime for creating the CLI tool, I can't wait to give it a try. And congratulations on the new website, it looks fantastic! Can't wait to see what else you have in store for us. 👏🎉
Marvin Frachet
Maker
@goyashy Thanks a lot for the kind words, very much appreciated :D. Brace yourself, the next round of features and adustments will be massiiiiive :D
Aman Wen
Is it better than Smartlook? How does it compare?
Marvin Frachet
Maker
@aman_wen Smartlook is a way more complete solution focused on analytics :). Progressively is primarily a feature flag solution coupled to a simple analytic service that allows for A/B testing. So basically if you want something simple to: - ship faster (feature flags) - get simple charts about your audience actions on your site (analytics) - an understanding of your audience behaviour sregarding a given version of a UI (A/B tests) Progressively might be a good fit for you. However, if you are looking for a very exhaustive and complete solution regarding analytics and tracking, Smartlook is definitely a great choice
Davor Kolenc
This looks great. Excited to see how you guys do as time progresses. Congratz on the launch.
Marvin Frachet
Maker
@davor_kolenc thanks for the message, very much appreciated! Hope things will go fiiiinnne xD
Prakhar Tandon
Kudos, @mfrachet for going open-source! The anonymous analytics feature is a game-changer for product decisions. Excited to try the CLI tool. Quick question: Any plans for extending analytics integration with third-party tools in the future?
Marvin Frachet
Maker
@prakhar_tandon_1 . Nothing is set in stones :D. If the community has the needs, then we'll do!
SHIVAM SINGH
Just explored Progressively, and wow, the switch to open-source is a game-changer! Loving the anonymous analytics and CLI tool for feature flags. The Docker images make deployment a breeze. The new website is sleek! Excited to see the community grow. Any plans for more integrations in the future? Keep up the fantastic work @mfrachet!
Marvin Frachet
Maker
@shivam_singh63 Thank you for the motivation my friend! As mentioned in another comment, if the community needs more integration, we'll do! Nothing is set in stone as long as it makes sense for the tool :D
Shahmir Faisal
Congrats on the launch Marvin!
Ghost Kitty
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Congrats team Progressively on the launch!
Alex Shapoval
Congrats on the launch! Always makes me happy to see more founders deciding to go open source.
Mathis Grosjean
nice congrats on the Launch Marvin! :)
Dmytro Semyrian
Wow, Progressively sounds like an amazing tool for product development! I love the idea of being able to build features iteratively and make data-driven decisions instead of relying on gut feelings. The fact that it's self-hosted and open source is also a huge plus. I'm curious to know how Progressively ensures anonymity while collecting user behavior data. Great job on creating this product!
Marvin Frachet
Maker
@dmytrosem thanks for your message and happy to hear from your feedbacks! The idea is that we register events in database to provide data to the folks using the product. However, the data going through the network and the data stored in the database does not contain any information that makes it possible to know who the user is :). To understand the user journey, we stick a cookie that is not based on user info. It's basically a random identifier generated from Progressively that is sent on subsequent requests. The code is open source, if you are a developper, you can get a glimpse on how we that here https://github.com/progressively...