Retool
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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:
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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.
So much power yet still so accessible
What do you like best about the product?
I love that I can spend a few minutes in Retool as a non-engineer and still generate so much value for my team. It's easy to create entire dashboards and workflows, and you can make such impactful changes very easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Retool UX isn't perfect, and the application is still missing some functionality that would be super helpful. Thankfully, it provides so much easy to use, useful functionality that it's not a real problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've built an entire internal dashboard for our operations team to use. It plugs in with our database, so they can easily make changes to the underlying values, view certain cuts of data they want, or trigger events like API calls to other applications from within the dashboard. Retool saves a lot of time for our engineering team because now there's a whole application in Retool that does not have to be maintained by the engineering team.
Excellent tool to build backoffice systems quickly
What do you like best about the product?
Speed to develop a frontend and also the various integrations that Retool allows to do.
What do you dislike about the product?
When the front has a lot of integration calls it is quite confusing for users to understand that he/she has to wait for a bunch of Ajax calls. Imagine a form with 30 fields and each one coming from a different integration. This makes Retool slow and fragile.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provide a back-office system quickly for the company.
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