“Super stoked for Portals, and to see Retool move outside of the internal tooling niche. Looking perfect for small, customer-facing licensing portals.”
“I could see it working well with Retool and other low code tools effectively giving the operations and customer support teams better tooling to work with.”
“Given OPs request for a friendly UI to sit on top of cube I thought retool could fit well that use case. And thanks for sharing the guide, I use and love Cube but I didn't want to pass as a shill :)”
“At the end of the day, Retool is really primarily providing the front-end components to make all of this happen. If you have the data currently in a way that is accessible via API or direct DB connection - the rest just becomes plugging and playing (quickly) to build the tools.”
“Yes you can create simple stuff just like on retool, but want it to look polished like or be extremely light weight and performant? Still going to have to go in and know enough to fine tune or create custom new components, backends, data models etc.”
“Ive used retool for 5 years now and the new addition of Retool Mobile has been extremely useful for us in the past few months. The scanner and the camera components are especially useful and I think can have many potential uses in the near future for us.”
“The majority of people using Airplane aren’t comparing it to Retool or any other products, but rather to building internal tools in-house. Since Airplane takes a code-based approach there are lots of eng teams that try it out who would never otherwise consider the low-code/no-code platforms.”
“Can you write well structured and reusuable code on retool? Can I write it in vscode, maybe even in typescript and deploy it up?Most implementations of the "escape hatch" I've come across require scattering fragmented snippets across the project with no support for building out well structured and reusuable code.”
“When will retool be able to do this for native desktop apps? Especially for Windows. Otherwise, you are leaving 2+ billion active devices off the table”
“I legit think with your new workflows you are gonna kill the non open-source competition (Airplane, Superblocks) and now the question remains if being an open-source alternative is strong enough of a differentiation for the rest of us.”
“I don't know how big your team is, but this sounds way too basic to be paying a monthly Retool subscription. A very simple admin app that does all of this shouldn't take more than two days.”
“I am going to opt Retool as it is more enterprise ready from perception wise. Even superblocks that cloned and copied appsmith, I am willing to pay for them as there is trust of some sorts as they have certain upfront pricing.”
“One thing I find missing in every such platform (except Retool) is a user editable code library. It's one thing to be able run code in query transformation and widgets, another thing to be able to organise common code patterns into functions and use them in multiple query transforms and widgets.”
“Tooljet IMO is the most promising of the open-source Retool competitors. It has a great UI, is easy to use, plugs into everything, and is super flexible.”
“I have no interest in SaaS, indeed it’s what’s stopped me from using things like Retool despite missing RAD tools ever since Delphi stopped being a viable solution for me.”
“Love retool! This new 5-seat plan will mean we can get started with Retool internally properly now on a trial basis, and hopefully upgrade in the future when we decide to roll it out!”
“We are also having the same issue, even in Europe the round trips add up. Our sales team uses retool as their crm system and for them the slowness is quite painful. We will be self hosting soon, but it is some work so this is unfortunate.Another topic of interest is managing queries.”
“I'm the cofounder and I'd like to add one or two points.On top of Retools functionality, Budibase also comes with an automation platform, internal db and a lot more flexibility when it comes to design and deployment.Here's our GitHub repo for anyone interested:”
“The primitives of Retool (autoupdating queries, transformers, direct integration to the database, staging and production environments) makes feature development super fast. You guys are on to something great, keep going strong.”
“Hey David, late last year my cofounder convinced me to try out Retool so we can rapidly spin up a prototype for a potential customer.We spun up the prototype in a couple of weeks without much hassle. It was a huge success.”
“Retool is awesome tool, because of the introduction of some workflow in retool my team as able of 200% more perfomance in 3 months, i managed the team and shifted the tools in last months so quickly an re adapted, is fucking insane the amount of possibilites”
“A combination of building back-end services and retool admin apps to interact with them has been super successful for us. Congrats on the great product!”
“Love retool and using it a lot for interfaces we want to whip up quickly, but the performance is terrible. We're just copping it at the moment since we don't have the time to invest in any other options!”
“10% of the code we write produces 90% of the value: retool etc. allow us to spend much less time on the 90% of code that isn’t valuable to the businesses we work for.”