Retool
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Efficient and Powerful Tool for Rapid Internal Development
What do you like best about the product?
Retool excels with its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, allowing rapid creation of internal tools without sacrificing functionality. Its seamless integration with a wide range of data sources, from SQL databases to APIs, makes it versatile for any business environment. The pre-built components and customization options ensure that you can tailor your tools exactly to your needs, saving both time and resources.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Retool is powerful, some advanced customizations do require a bit of coding, which might pose a challenge for users without technical backgrounds. Additionally, the learning curve for mastering all features can be steep, but it's worth the effort for the flexibility it provides.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool streamlines the creation of internal tools, saving time and reducing the need for extensive coding. It connects seamlessly with our data sources, boosting productivity and allowing us to focus on core business tasks.
I use retool for a backoffice app in my company, very fast to create new modules and use cases
What do you like best about the product?
It is very simple and fast to create modules, you can iterate really fast by deploying a new feature and seeing its usage and change it really fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
it is a little complex for doing code review or managing the versions like github.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we can create an app for our operations engineers really fast and create new use cases and features a lot faster than our Next.js webapp
Great tool for automation of tasks and enablement of staff
What do you like best about the product?
Retool has enabled staff to self serve, is easy to use, and has some good automation features.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside being the 2 minute query timeout when running larger queries, and the interface can be a little confusing to start off with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing delegation of reporting tasks to other teams, and the creation of dashboard, or automated data processes.
Excellent platform to develop quick prototypes, competitive pricing and features makes it preferable
What do you like best about the product?
I love the fact that they are continuously adding new features and solutions that allows us to implement not only the frontend but also the backend of custom web applications with so much ease. Additionally, it is quite well integrated with most of the industry's preferred platforms.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is still not ready to be used beyond prototyping stage or when there is a need to fully scale the infra for heavier loads. Additionally, the ability to add custom packages and import code in popular langauges such as python is missing, although there are ways around provided to get the job done at the least.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is allowing us to develop internal web applications and deploy with minimum time. Also, bug fixing is quite easy.
Senior Software Engineer
What do you like best about the product?
- Drag and drop interface, I don't need to deal much things with the UI. The default UI is good enough.
- Mobile supported.
- Version control, we can easy publish/rollback version.
- Mobile supported.
- Version control, we can easy publish/rollback version.
What do you dislike about the product?
- I think it is harder to customize when you want to have a complex UI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using retool for internal app for internal users.
Its a great app for quickly automatically tasks
What do you like best about the product?
Having the ability to have standalone apps that can be quicly setup and modified
What do you dislike about the product?
I cant think of anything. Maybe just the fact that theres a dependency on third party app
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its helping save time in setting up apps quickly
A powerful low-code platform
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Retool is its flexibility and ease of use for building internal tools quickly. It allows you to connect to different databases and APIs effortlessly, saving time and reducing the need for custom development. The drag-and-drop interface is user-friendly, making it easy to create powerful applications without requiring deep technical skillls.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside of Retool is its pricing, especially when it comes to adding new users to the account. In the past, I’ve faced challenges when trying to scale our team because the cost of adding users can be quite high. This makes it difficult for smaller teams or organizations with limited budgets to fully utilize the platform’s potential.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool is helping us by eliminating the need to develop new back-office front ends from scratch, which saves us a lot of time and resources. Additionally, we use Retool to automate some human workflows, which significantly reduces the chances of human error. This automation has improved our efficiency and allowed our team to focus on more strategic tasks rather than repetitive manual processes.
Very powerful tool!
What do you like best about the product?
Once you get a grasp of basic concepts it allows you to create pretty good software astonishingly quickly.
- The Embed feature allowed us to integrate Retool into our existing internal software. Replacing one screen at a time, we reached a state where 80% of our system is implemented in Retool and only the rest is proprietary and works nicely together.
- It reduced the time my team spent on internal tooling development dramatically, while improving the speed of delivery and response to change requests by an order of magnitude.
- Integration with our existing systems (Mongo DB, S3, ...) was a breeze.
- Responsive support, willing to help.
- The Embed feature allowed us to integrate Retool into our existing internal software. Replacing one screen at a time, we reached a state where 80% of our system is implemented in Retool and only the rest is proprietary and works nicely together.
- It reduced the time my team spent on internal tooling development dramatically, while improving the speed of delivery and response to change requests by an order of magnitude.
- Integration with our existing systems (Mongo DB, S3, ...) was a breeze.
- Responsive support, willing to help.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UX of code editing fields is sometimes a bit clunky, but nothing one can't get around.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Development of internal tools. It's dramatically faster to develop new features while flexible enough to meet our needs.
Retool has allowed us to build multiple apps for multiple different users with speed and ease.
What do you like best about the product?
It has allowed our development team to build quickly and with ease, for things which are not customer facing but impact the customer experience. Our whole team can use Retool as users, and our development team have been able to pick it up and build quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a bit laggy and glitchy on mobile, and when making updates to our records it doesn't always perfectly execute.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have one backend engineer whose time is precious therefore. Retool has allowed him to focus on features rather than infrastructure and design.
Great low code solution for internal tools
What do you like best about the product?
Retool has made it incredibly easy for our team to build tools that integrate seamlessly with our API. Even our product team members, who don't have a technical background, can create powerful tools with minimal effort. The platform is both powerful and highly customizable, allowing us to tailor solutions to our specific needs. It's a game-changer for internal operations. Highly recommended for teams looking to empower non-technical users to build and manage their own applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of support for branches complicates the release process. Managing different versions and deploying updates can be challenging without proper version control, which limits flexibility and adds risks to production changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building internal tools without needing extensive coding knowledge. It allows our non-technical teams, especially in product, to create custom tools that integrate directly with our API. This significantly reduces the dependency on developers for creating and maintaining internal tools. The benefit is a faster turnaround for internal tool development, enabling more autonomy for our teams and freeing up developer time for more complex tasks
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