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Best no code platform ever used
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and using SQL to execute CRUD operation make it very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing for some useful option is not very cheap, but it deserve his price.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I create small application in a very fast time for my customers
Great for data collection without writing programs
What do you like best about the product?
Great tool for creating quick and easy applications without having particular knowledge of software development. Useful for integrating other applications via API.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you want to create complex applications with a sequence of operations, it becomes a bit less simple and requires a more in-depth project analysis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Use web tools through API calls. Bulk insertion of records by "basic" users and linking to tables from other databases. All with time and resource savings.
Retool is great to use and the documentation is pretty clear.
What do you like best about the product?
I get suggestions on what to type for code. This helped me overcome the learning curve and made it easier to build things quickly. I have not used a competitor so I don't know how Retool would compare, but just in general good documentation that covers as many situations as possible is always the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there were more Javascript query examples. Unless if that example is the real only way to be able to use Retool with JS. I felt pretty confused on how to manipulate different aspects of my table with Javascript and still don't really know how to do much more than the example given.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As mentioned above the only problem is not knowing how to fully use the JS Queries. I want to run an API call on about 9000 rows of data, and the API takes a while. The only way I have it set up is that I have to wait till the whole query is done before I can repopulate my table with the results- which just feels very hacky. I think there is a better way to do it, but trying to find it was hard. The benefits I realize are how powerful the UI is. I love the fact that I can easily build out these widgets and the biggest benefit of Retool is the ability to just manipulate the data easily in a safe read-only ara. I know that's one of the core product offerings, but it's just nice.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you know SQL- helped me get up and running quickly. (Simple SQL statements are easy enough to learn though.)
Hit the ground running
What do you like best about the product?
Sales and Ops Support has been the differentiator when compared to other competitor products.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing is a little confusing and I am a bit worried that I build something amazing but then it becomes to expensive to maintain with a big user base
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bringing all my data in one place and then representing it in a way that allows my staff to improve their delivery
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Retool as a company have been great. With so many low code applications out there it's so hard to decide on which one. But their pre and after sales service has been amazing
Nice tool for quick app building
What do you like best about the product?
easy interface and the different components offering high flexibility while building
What do you dislike about the product?
sometimes its complicated to understand how certain UX could be implemented through the available components
a guide with the most common approaches is nice to have
a guide with the most common approaches is nice to have
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
building in house tools to facilitate data services and products and honestly your software is a life saver when it comes to fast launch of a specific service.
Excellent app for quickly getting things done
What do you like best about the product?
Love the flexibility to create lots of different apps. The integrations with all the different third parties is really helpful. In other tools I had to map out the APIs for third parties. In Retool, the API already existed with hundreds of endpoints and the variables already mapped out so it made integration really easy and quick.
What do you dislike about the product?
Having a development background, it would be better to have more tools orientated to development of the javascript code
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickly made small apps to solve simple business problems where they don't need full database access, but do need to update a few rows with some data, so we can restrict a db user to that and give them a functional user interfere to make it really simple and quick for them
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a go and you'll see how powerful and easy it is
Awesome! Best tool quickly create panels for internal teams
What do you like best about the product?
Its usability, very easy to drag and drop some UI elements and integrate with APIs or databases. Very easy to use for new developers or for those with less coding experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only complaint I feel is the role management. No options to restrict access to panels based on roles within the internal team. Also, there is no way to group certain panels by functionality or team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Creating panels for internal teams. It's so easy to use that even people with no coding experience are able to spin up tools for their own with minimal inputs from devs. Also easy to maintain with its version management system
Perfect tool for rapid development of Internal Tools
What do you like best about the product?
The various integrations, how easy it is to build new tools. The development is straightforward, and integration into Databases and other tools becomes very simple and can be done without the significant support of Software Engineers.
What do you dislike about the product?
The number of modules and queries become pretty hard to handle very quickly. It's missing features to help organize different elements of an application. Sutruuringing of modules and questions could be done better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Spending Engineering Resources on building internal management and Admin tools is a complex trade-off. Everyone knows it benefits internal processes in the long run, but it is harder to justify compared to customer requests and customer-facing features. So having a tool that significantly reduces the time required to build internal management and admin tools is a must-have. Retool is filling that perfectly.
Director, Power Dispatch
What do you like best about the product?
It's very intuitive and simply works perfectly right out of the box.
What do you dislike about the product?
I like it all. It would be nice to see a summary of things that don't match up or don't exist (from misspellings).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Interacting with Snowflake database data without having the end users needing to know SQL.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are a software developer, stop using antiquated tools and sign up for Retool
Perfect Solution to creating internal apps quickly
What do you like best about the product?
Extremely Intuitive
Great UI
Good Range of data sources
Great UI
Good Range of data sources
What do you dislike about the product?
Access Controls are on the more expensive plan.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Automation of manual business processes.
Creation of internal tools for non-technical staff
Creation of internal tools for non-technical staff
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I'm a huge skeptic of "low code" solutions, retool has made me reconsider this.
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