Looking for ideas: How can we add A/B testing to our stack?

[usirin]

We wanna have an a/b testing setup with our applications, and ideally wanna have it in our create-kampus-app boilerplate tool.

What are some ways we can do this?

• Self hosted?
• SaaS? (sponsorship deal opportunity)

[Ketcap]

Using edge via Vercel, https://vercel.com/blog/edge-config-and-launch-darkly

[Ketcap]

Another resource can be used https://devcycle.com/ , https://www.learnwithjason.dev/blog/feature-flags-react-devcycle

[usirin]

Just want to make sure we are all on the same page: Feature flags are not necessarily same with A/B testing.

I've checked both of those, even though they market themselves mainly as "feature flag" companies, they have A/B testing feature as well so we are good with these.

P.S this note is mainly for the future reader: if you confuse A/B testing with feature flags, they are pretty similar and they can be used to do the same things, but they actually have different purposes: feature flags are mainly booleans that controls a release, and can be configured to do a gradual rollout. whereas A/B testing is done to test different approaches to the same problem and run product experiments with at least 2 different variants.

[EmirBoyaci]

PostHog -> advantage: can be self-hosted | disadvantage: a/b testing is not included in free tier for cloud version

[EmirBoyaci]

FlagSmith -> advantage: free tier can be used for a while | disadvantage: free tier is only for one user

[EmirBoyaci]

GrowthBook -> advantage: free tier can be used up to 3 users | disadvantage: visual a/b test editor is not included in free tier

[EmirBoyaci]

Unleash -> advantage: self-hosted version includes almost everything we want | disadvantage: only one project