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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.
Good tool but very slow
What do you like best about the product?
It help me in every field that I have,Its very easy to use and I can easily acces everything, so easy to adapt the changes as well.overall it's agood experience
What do you dislike about the product?
It is very slow like takes so much time to load whenever I try to open a page it takes 2,3 seconds and then that page will open, it's very disappointed and takes a lot of time
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am in quality team and I check all the answers provided by the students and tutors in one page so it's very easy for me to analyse the performance of tutors by retool over its very nice experience
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend it as it is good
Easy and user friendly tool
What do you like best about the product?
Open source code helps in easy coding and integration as per our requirements. We used it to enhance the KYC module internally, and it gave us miracles. Small size, fast, and reliable
What do you dislike about the product?
The backend data storage is linked to Sheets which is a significant dependency. It grows slow when the backend is full, which slows down the entire process related to it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used the tool as a backend for the KYC database and the front end for KYC decision-making. Multiple dashboards run parallelly at the same time helped the business grow, and we have moved to the latest version of the same
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.
Perfect platform for startups rapidly building internal tools
What do you like best about the product?
Retool is an insanely fast tool for rapidly prototyping new applications and deploying into production environments. 95+% of the components required are available and immediately work out of the box with minimal onboarding. The development interface is very intuitive. As a developer I found myself rarely needing to refer to docs.
Any startup quickly building applications or large organization re-thinking back-office utilities should consider Retool. I rarely write reviews; this is one of those cases where I have been so impressed by a product that I am going out my way to share.
Any startup quickly building applications or large organization re-thinking back-office utilities should consider Retool. I rarely write reviews; this is one of those cases where I have been so impressed by a product that I am going out my way to share.
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance could be improved. It's not a blocker, but there is additional query overhead that requires tuning.
Applications are not as snappy as a fully custom solution, especially for repetitive tasks that require data loading, e.g. quickly flagging results in a table with a checkbox. For our usage, this is an easy trade-off for the speed of application development and low maintenance requirements.
Applications are not as snappy as a fully custom solution, especially for repetitive tasks that require data loading, e.g. quickly flagging results in a table with a checkbox. For our usage, this is an easy trade-off for the speed of application development and low maintenance requirements.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to replace custom administrative tooling (React + Blueprint and Spring Boot) in a matter of days and quickly augment with new features. Development speed is easily 10x vs custom build.
Easy custom dashboarding
What do you like best about the product?
We replaced an internal custom admin dashboard with Retool and it was able to fully replace the functionality and made it much easier to add new functionality.
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that changes to a dashboard immediately apply instead of going into a preview that you can then save is a little unexpected.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Replacing a custom internal admin website.
Retool: A tool to build tools
What do you like best about the product?
Integrating databases is quick and straightforward. Additionally, the UI builder is intuitive and contains tons of custom settings for each component, reducing the amount of work the Retool developer must put in to achieve a working product.
What do you dislike about the product?
Debugging issues in Retool scripts is not straightforward and requires more steps than typical front-end debugging via browser tools. Also, the developer needs to put in work to get asynchronous request handling working.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company is using Retool to quickly and efficiently build out internal tools. The speed at which tools are implemented with Retool versus creating tools using Django's internal framework gives back time to developers to work on other initiatives.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Better debugging platform
An easy and fast backoffice builder tool
What do you like best about the product?
The number of integrations ready to be used to create a back-office panel. Salesofrce, AWS S3 and DynamodDb were the most useful for our use case.
We have tried a few of other services and they were not so easy to use.
We have tried a few of other services and they were not so easy to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
We would like some more flexibility in the elements personalization, but it's hopeful something that will come soon
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We managed to fastly and easily create a complete back-office for our platform.
Great tool for small businesses
What do you like best about the product?
Retool is excellent for making quick apps to manage the internals of a small business better. The best part about Retool is how it can connect to existing data sources, keeping a single source of truth for essential data. We connected directly to our website's already existing product database to give our sales team a clearer view of all of our products.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's hard to find things to dislike about Retool, most problems are just minor annoyances. For example the Table component can't be displayed as an infinite scrolling table (such as AirTable or Google Sheets) and must be paginated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool gives our team better tools to view our products, add internal notes, and display sales. Our sales team can easily filter products, for example, to find products released after a specific date. We also have a Retool app for displaying the sales that we have made, which includes beautiful graphs and charts to see how our business is doing. Retool has been able to save the precious time of our staff and give us a better sense of our company's status without having to chart sales figures manually.
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