Retool
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Effective and Time Saving Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Its little tricky to learn in the begining but once learnt its easy and time saving , utilities are helpful and simplifies day to day job
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing as of now from QA/Tester perspective it's effective and very much useful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Seggregating and representing the data into different dashboards that we have configured and easy to check and use in our verification and validation of several test cases which would easily by pass the database access and query that in turn saves time especially people from remote and co-located areas who needs VPN etc. Excellent Utility.
Excellent tool to build backoffice systems quickly
What do you like best about the product?
Speed to develop a frontend and also the various integrations that Retool allows to do.
What do you dislike about the product?
When the front has a lot of integration calls it is quite confusing for users to understand that he/she has to wait for a bunch of Ajax calls. Imagine a form with 30 fields and each one coming from a different integration. This makes Retool slow and fragile.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide a back-office system quickly for the company.
Time Saving Tool with Big Benefits for a Startup
What do you like best about the product?
Retool has a very friendly user interface, and was very easy to learn for someone with little development experience. It is a very intuitive tool. It also has a lot of potential use cases, and the templates are helpful for setup and for ideas.
What do you dislike about the product?
Unique deployment seems difficult - i.e. deploying retool within an AWS VPC. We need to do this to ensure security guidelines are met, but reading through the instructions and figuring out how to do this seems difficult. I wish it was easier to deploy retool for custom setups where security guidelines were strict, or have the option of a retool consultant that could provide one on one support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are avoiding development time for internal tools that saves our company time. Previously, we would have to consume development resources to create internal tools, taking away from new feature development. Now we do not have to do that. We are also giving our operations team access to the database and tools to use with the database, whereas before they would have to submit a request to the IT team, which would take time and could easily be forgotten about.
Great tool for creating basic intra-company apps
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to start, you can build an app in hours. Familiar to React devs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Two people cannot work at the same app at the same time - this is understandable as there is no version control but it slows development a bit.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building a internal data management tool. It speeds up development as there are no release cycles.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend using Retool for simple apps. For bigger, more complex app, coding an app from scratch might make more sense.
Applicable to a variety of use-cases
What do you like best about the product?
In every company I worked for there has been a constant need for the following: internal tooling, admin panels, freelancer portals, ops panels, the list goes on... These tools are often built quick & dirty and little to less attention is given to reusability. Tech stack for those (non-sexy) tools is often a personal taste of the developer who is tasked to build them which makes it even harder to maintain them. Retool brings a law & order to this space, with its a great selection of data sources and reusable components, building sensible tools is a breeze.
What do you dislike about the product?
Features targeting power users can be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We build our internal tooling around DS workflows admin panels.
Great tool, something I have been looking for for my whole life...
What do you like best about the product?
- Quickly building frontends using existing data
- Supports JS almost everywhere
- Makes fun to build apps
- Quick iterations possible
- Supports JS almost everywhere
- Makes fun to build apps
- Quick iterations possible
What do you dislike about the product?
- sometimes still feels a bit buggy
- mobile layout not that good
- visual drag and drop a bit laggy
- editor frontend could be a bit more customisable, e.g. popout the left/bottom/right panels
- documentation could be a bit better
- mobile layout not that good
- visual drag and drop a bit laggy
- editor frontend could be a bit more customisable, e.g. popout the left/bottom/right panels
- documentation could be a bit better
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Frontends for internal tools, connecting to existing database or APIs
- Previously only tech savvy users could do that by either working directly with the database (tables) or with REST APIs
- Now every business user can use frontend tools to accomplish certain tasks, freeing up time of the techies
--> without making the math, I'm sure we are saving money using Retool!
- Previously only tech savvy users could do that by either working directly with the database (tables) or with REST APIs
- Now every business user can use frontend tools to accomplish certain tasks, freeing up time of the techies
--> without making the math, I'm sure we are saving money using Retool!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
go for it!
Amazing tool for building internal apps!
What do you like best about the product?
How quick it is to connect to a db and perform CRUD operations
What do you dislike about the product?
Loading times with more complex applications
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Replacing old web front ends, with a more modern feel
Fastest way to build internal apps... hands down!
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is role out simple apps with minimal work. I also love how quickly they make updates to the software.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limitations when building more complex applications, also documentation sometimes lags behind features that are released
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Created a simple custom CRM to managed customers and the maintenance of their equipment. Saves me many many house of development time
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it out... i dont think you will find a software solution more fully featured
easy tool to make internal dashboards
What do you like best about the product?
very little coding once the database is connected. Also the access to the DB can be restricted so that it's not tampered by folks not familiar with the DB
What do you dislike about the product?
it just fits our purpose. so not much to dislike there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are a small team and want our tech team to focus on critical stuff.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
if you need to build dashboards without using much of your tech team , use retool
Boost your team with internal tools
What do you like best about the product?
Almost no-code data integration and UI creation help quickly get to work rather than getting sucked into creating internal tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration with JSON format databases like MongoDB could be better to help provide easier nested lookup based on document id references. Other than that, it provides comprehensive integration capabilities and robust UI layouts to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing users on our platform, managing user's internal properties like free credits, access restrictions, and even publishing and managing content on CMS has become user friendly with Retool.
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