What people previously said about Retool

“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.”

“Can I import my JSON config export from Retool?”

“Fwiw BigQuery support is what kept me from testing budibase and using retool for a project just 2 weeks ago.”

“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!”

“My pet peeve for retool is not integrating easily with Office365, thus making it not a first choice for us”

“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!”

“I think retool could be great, and I really wanted to use it for our internal tooling, but we operated in Australia and the lag was just nuts.”

“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.”

“Retool is now in my list of "must have" for any thing I build.The build process took a bit of time and I had to hire an expert on Upwork.”

“Retool is a fantastic product. I commend the vision of the founding team to keep the focus on internal tooling and "devs" as the core of its market. I wish more people realized that "no-code" is a delusion.”

“Congrats on the round! Love the product.I think retool is a great framework to build internal apps. Customers always wonder of what they can build with a framework.”

“Founder of DronaHQ here - a semi bootstrapped retool alternative with hundreds of customers. As someone playing along side in this huge market - this is awesome news to hear and congrats to the retool team.”

“I sometimes say (half-jokingly) that Budibase is what would happen if Retool and Stacker had an open-source baby.”

“How this compares with Retool?”

“Uh man let the guys at Retool relish their moment of glory for a second.”

“What Retool does is commoditizing front end for building internal enterprise tools and letting you spend the resources and time on the data. The real value add of internal tools is data, UIs can change but the data doesn't.”

“In terms of feature parity, how close are you to matching Retool?”

“Honestly I have seen Retool being used, and see developers love it. But the one thing I hate about Retool is that anything that a developer does on Retool is tech debt.You want to do a quick form to manage an app ?”

“@yogi - will retool work for non-multi-tenant environments to aggregrate & create tools for the same data from XXX+ databases?or more simply - can you connect a single "tool" to multiple databases?”

“This is super cool. Retool has come a long way in the short span of time. I would love to connect it with my db and build more integrations/alerts/notifications on top of it.”

“Can we incorporate Retool into our HIPAA compliant stack?”

“David this looks fantastic. I can’t wait to play with it.Just on the GDPR front, our DB also has customer data.”

“As somebody who wrote many internal tools for a small startup many moons ago (customer manager, shipping manager, inventory manager) Retool solves that pain.A few questions.1.) How does authentication to retool apps work?”

“All you need to use retool is basic working knowledge of sql and javascript, so there's no dependence on the original author.”

“We use you @ Rappi <3 Retool”

“We currently use ChartIO to build dashboards, but some of these have become almost like mini read-only apps that teams use, it would be great to make some of these into something a bit more useful and Retool sounds like it has the potential to be a good fit.Some questions I would have as an engineer...1.”