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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.
Good experience all along
What do you like best about the product?
The agility to create new solutions via a varierty of tools to different problems.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that it only allows me to save one password, when for safety pourpuses our programs use different ones.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The agility to have an almost inmediate response to give to our customers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take in consideration that you will need a fix asset to make the tool work as one inttends to.
Great for creating internal tools, getting data from many APIs combined in one place.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of setting up Resources. Automatic table creation and being able to configure columns. Automatic refresh when variables change. Option to add a mobile layout.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing model for pro is too expensive to allow all devs, customer support, and a few other departments access that I would like.
Couldn't see a way to locally cache data between page reloads.
Some APIs like Stripe don't seem to be maintained and are out of date.
I'd like a nicer way to handle referencing elements of undefined objects. Kind of a problem with javascript in general and I like that the whole app doesn't crash.
I'd also like a way to add logging. In our public app, I've seen a few weird things from the data but it's hard to tell exactly what went wrong.
Couldn't see a way to locally cache data between page reloads.
Some APIs like Stripe don't seem to be maintained and are out of date.
I'd like a nicer way to handle referencing elements of undefined objects. Kind of a problem with javascript in general and I like that the whole app doesn't crash.
I'd also like a way to add logging. In our public app, I've seen a few weird things from the data but it's hard to tell exactly what went wrong.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
quickly developing internal tools for customer service and a CMS to maintain app content.
I wrote a refer a friend public app that allows existing users to send a coupon to up to 3 friends. We were able to build and launch this really quickly compared to the time it would have taken to get it built into all of our client apps.
I wrote a refer a friend public app that allows existing users to send a coupon to up to 3 friends. We were able to build and launch this really quickly compared to the time it would have taken to get it built into all of our client apps.
Great product - Simplifies my job
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy retool being the "one stop shop" for seeing our NPS scores, CSAT responses, and a lot of other important things. It has been a huge time saver for me and honestly, I don't think I even use it up to its full capability. It is also very easy to read.
What do you dislike about the product?
I feel like the search functionality could be improved. It works, but sometimes when I search by an email address and not by organization it won't clear out the organization even though I've clicked on the "x" several times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I stated this some above but instead of having to go to three or four different software to find the information I need (for a customer email following an NPS, for instance) it is all in one place and takes a fraction of the time.
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