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Easy to use | very flexible and versatile
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to prototype very fast makes the tool very valuable for our company. Our IT-resources are limited and if someone from operations or marketing can design their own tools, the IT only has to connect the tools between databases or frontends.
What do you dislike about the product?
The editing feature has not the best performance. Multiselection doesn't work or takes a long time.
Another point is that there are not many options to upload pictures. Currently only via URL, a storage for pictures would be very nice.
Another point is that there are not many options to upload pictures. Currently only via URL, a storage for pictures would be very nice.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We created a tool for our operations department. They can now edit customers much faster than in one of these "one-for-all" business softwares.
We are much faster end we can automate a lot of easy tasks. Its much moreclear for the user and very individually.
Another tool that we created is an access point for our databases. We have a well designed tool to edit everything, before that we used Excel.
There will be a lot more tools to come that will help us to improve our processes and save a lot of money.
We are much faster end we can automate a lot of easy tasks. Its much moreclear for the user and very individually.
Another tool that we created is an access point for our databases. We have a well designed tool to edit everything, before that we used Excel.
There will be a lot more tools to come that will help us to improve our processes and save a lot of money.
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.
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.
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:
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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.
Easy, Effective and Powerful
What do you like best about the product?
As a new user, I could quickly learn how to use it and successfully implement a dashboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation needs to present some more use cases
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Analytics Dashboard
Intuitive, polished, and powerful tooling
What do you like best about the product?
I had no issues getting connected to our RDS instance via SSH tunneling via a bastion server. I love how easy it is to change datasources from development to production once you're ready to publish. The editor is responsive and intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be useful to hide the Edit button altogether for users who have "view only" permissions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're building tools for our support staff to use for admin tasks that are quicker to build in Retool than incorporating into our own apps. Plus, my non-technical co-founder can build them with just a little SQL help from me.
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