Reviews from AWS Marketplace
0 AWS reviews
-
5 star0
-
4 star0
-
3 star0
-
2 star0
-
1 star0
External reviews
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
Overall excellent - a few minor warts
What do you like best about the product?
An excellent way to build internal tooling that's helped us get projects going very quickly. Semi-technical users can easily put together apps with data from multiple sources (e.g., PostgreSQL DBs and APIs).
What do you dislike about the product?
The tool's performance eventually becomes an issue with lots of users, and we've had the odd memory leak. It takes a minimal amount of ops time to look after it but infinitely worthwhile. You'll likely start in Retool, iterate, and then move into a fully formed application in the future (with scale).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've built a range of internal tooling that has eased concerns over data access thanks to Retool's auditing capabilities.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
* Set alarms on response times from your load balancer and the memory / CPU usage of the container.
* Upgrade regularly after testing in a staging environment.
* Upgrade regularly after testing in a staging environment.
- Leave a Comment |
- Mark review as helpful
Want to make something super quick ? Retool is for you.
What do you like best about the product?
1. I like the ability to quickly drop a few components and link my APIs to get the desired result. I was so excited when I made my first app and shared it with my team, and it got used extensively.
2. Utilizing data from one component to another is a delight.
3. How easy it is for someone with basic tech knowledge to integrate the Database and APIs and start building the apps.
2. Utilizing data from one component to another is a delight.
3. How easy it is for someone with basic tech knowledge to integrate the Database and APIs and start building the apps.
What do you dislike about the product?
I feel there's room to improve the UX of components interaction. The resizing and adjustment are not smooth sometimes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. It helps me make something that is not part of our product, but it's an ad-hoc requirement for my team, and we don't want to spend tech bandwidth in building that.
2. Retool helps quickly build the MVP, and then based on usage, we include it in our product roadmap.
3. A lot of scripts which were used by solution engineer has been put on retool for general team memeber to access and use, that automated a lot of things internally.
2. Retool helps quickly build the MVP, and then based on usage, we include it in our product roadmap.
3. A lot of scripts which were used by solution engineer has been put on retool for general team memeber to access and use, that automated a lot of things internally.
No-brainer tool for building operations and admin tooling
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to create interfaces and sync data. Simple to create robust applications that are easy to use by internal stakeholders.
What do you dislike about the product?
Data loading can take a long time if your app is not built correctly (with pagination, etc.). Definitely needs more guidance around how to optimize apps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used Retool to build out interfaces for our admin tooling. We have several components of our platform we need to manage, including users, brands, products, etc. and we manage the data and day-to-day work with Retool apps. It has saved us significant development time as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Retool is great for building your back-end admin tooling fast, however as you need more custom use cases, it can be more difficult to bend Retool to your will.
Fast and powerful
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy, to show data, and build small tools for customer team. I create a tooling for fix any problem fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI, I have a big disThe user interface, I have a large screen even so I have to be hiding panels or changing sizes. In edit mode, the panel to create the queries is very small and you have to be scrolling a lot.play
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Build tooling for support. And data visualitation or explore.
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.
Retool is helpful in quickly creating usable tools
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity, interface & integration with various services
What do you dislike about the product?
There seem to be some issues around the UI, like a sidebar opens up on clicking variables with details of all variables used, but there is no option to close it. Have to refresh the whole page. Also, some times placing the component works weirdly, like we can't resize after specific size, or can fit many components in a single view
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are generating reports, having some quick utils.
Beneficial in creating quick reports without a new project for reports. Can make quick tools without much efforts on the UI side
Beneficial in creating quick reports without a new project for reports. Can make quick tools without much efforts on the UI side
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Go to product
Fast and easy to kickstart, scale and automate your processes
What do you like best about the product?
Awesome and easy to configure, anyone with basic knowledge or foundations in CS can use it, but also it is a really useful framework for anyone at the company to create and design tools for processes. Also I like a lot the fast response Retool has in retool community, I find the community really helpful and I hope it continues to grow.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it can be slow, when uploading the retools.And also I think it would be helpful to have more tutorials on integrations with Stripe, etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Standardize all processes and make changes fast enough to make more efficient and autonomous processes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
To involve all the team at first in how retool works so anyone can understand the capabilities of the tools it can be built.
One of my favorite tools we're using
What do you like best about the product?
I love any platform that make our systems more visible & accessible to the non-coders on the team. Once you get the hang of Retool, it's extremely fast to create new dashboards or tweak existing ones. I spun up a simple feature flag dashboard in less than a day. Love how it's a very live-first editor experience- once you hook up a working query, you immediately see the live data show up in autocompletion.
Also it's definitely a plus that it works with our existing databases and services (in our case AWS), so our team stays in control of our data.
Also it's definitely a plus that it works with our existing databases and services (in our case AWS), so our team stays in control of our data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The editor is powerful but it's definitely a little tricky to learn at first, there's little things to remember like whether to use ".data" or ".value".
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're building a really lightweight CMS / PIM system for our ecommerce storefront.
Major gain in efficiency
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and the possibility to automate recurring manual tasks. Building retool apps went faster than expected and the feedback received by internal users has been overwhelmingly positive. I certainly recommend it for those looking for more speed in the process. Also, from the time we started exploring the retool possibility to actually building the apps and putting them to production... it all happened within a month. That's how dynamic retool is and that's what retool can do to speed up any query process you might be struggling with. I would say it's a 10 out of 10 for what it proposes itself to do.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall very happy. Maybe the interface could be friendlier to non-technical people, but I also understand it's complex type of work being done there :)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Recurring tasks that previously required extensive queries and reviews. Things are going faster now. Let's say that previously a given task would take 5 to 6 hours to complete. Now, with the help of Retool, it's possible to mostly complete that task within 5 or 6 minutes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For anyone else considering Retool, explore their documentation and clarify any question with their support team - they are ready to help in a timely manner!
The most useful and easy tool!
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of using the tool. It's easy and so useful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Requires a very basic coding background.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tools for teams to use internally.
showing 131 - 140