Retool
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Flawless and stable over long periods of time for internal apps
What do you like best about the product?
There are quite a few things that stand out in retool, but for building internal applications, the amount of documentation and examples available are of really high quality.
We are a financing company, and raise debt from external retail investors from time to time, we have been using retool since Mid 2021 and once made, it has worked flawlessly. We use it to do interest calculations, send statement of accounts and handling customer queries. Customer Support is fast and agile, and using it is a breeze for operations managers.
We are a financing company, and raise debt from external retail investors from time to time, we have been using retool since Mid 2021 and once made, it has worked flawlessly. We use it to do interest calculations, send statement of accounts and handling customer queries. Customer Support is fast and agile, and using it is a breeze for operations managers.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think the resources and connections to complicated data sources could be made a little better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are a Non banking financial services company and Retool helos us to
- Manage entire customer lifecucle of our debt raised ( Keep in mind that the debt is for a period of 3-5 years, so we need extremely stable systems )
- Reduced the time to launch to 1 week from 8-10 weeks if we had built it from scratch
- No libraries to maintain, no conflicting errors and operations can do small edits of their own
- Manage entire customer lifecucle of our debt raised ( Keep in mind that the debt is for a period of 3-5 years, so we need extremely stable systems )
- Reduced the time to launch to 1 week from 8-10 weeks if we had built it from scratch
- No libraries to maintain, no conflicting errors and operations can do small edits of their own
Account Manager
What do you like best about the product?
It's very user-friendly. It is easy to learn as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
Haven't experienced neagitve yet. It can take some time though to refresh the page etc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's easy for me to find and separate my project.
Its like a custom CMS but better
What do you like best about the product?
We use it to manage all the internal data and even analysis of our app. The fact that we can connect it directly to our AWS DB is just amazing, its somethign that we use daily.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not really a thing that I dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are allowing not-technical people to work and analise data that exists in our database in real time.
Retool is easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Retool is very easy to use across our company
What do you dislike about the product?
Would like to customize my screen for easier ease of use
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Scheduling
Alternative to building desktop software or custom web apps
What do you like best about the product?
With as little code as possible, I'm able to implemenent commonly used functionalities in a matter of minutes, with a drag and drop interface. I have been using using Retool for more than 3 years, and I am able to quickly provide software services to businesses and move on to the next project. This saves me (as a developer) and the business, time and money. The ability to integrate with popular platforms and the adaptability with unpopular platforms, is very powerful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Retool can be slow or buggy sometimes, and reaching their support team for bugs has become a longer process than before, which wastes time while using an alternative approach.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool allows building user interfaces as fast as possible with a drap and drop interface and a nice and easy way to customize UI components. I no longer need to make custom ReactJS applications or spend time building a user interface from scratch using HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Another powerful feature is the ability to write SQL directly within Retool's app editor, which allows me to skip the part of building a custom backend server and connecting it to a database server.
Excellent tool for moving fast
What do you like best about the product?
I like best about Retool the ability to rapidly develop internal tools with minimal coding. A simple and intuitive drag-and-drop interface makes it very accessible. Its seamless integration with various databases and APIs enables us to pull in data effortlessly, creating customized solutions that fit our needs. Overall, Retool has significantly streamlined our development process and boosted our productivity.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although Retool allows for some customization, users may find the design options for UI elements somewhat restrictive compared to fully custom development.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool is great in helping us move forward quickly and deliver solutions to our customers. By simplifying the development of internal tools, we can rapidly prototype and implement features that directly address customer needs.
The platform’s intuitive interface allows our team to make adjustments on the fly, ensuring we remain responsive to feedback and market demands. Backend devs can rapidly create UI for processes.
The platform’s intuitive interface allows our team to make adjustments on the fly, ensuring we remain responsive to feedback and market demands. Backend devs can rapidly create UI for processes.
AMAZING
What do you like best about the product?
We spent 3 hours building an epic internal app with retool which an agency quoted us £20k and 1 month to make! To give you an idea of how intuitive it is, before opening Retool yesterday, I had never used API calls before and we now have a working app which we've rolled out across the team in <2 days. Amazing!!
What do you dislike about the product?
Can feel daunting at the start as someone non-technical but the tempaltes etc are amazing and help
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We needed an internal app to consume API data for energy consumption in a safe, secure, logged and access control way
Best tool to test, ship and evolve new ideas (especially with AI)
What do you like best about the product?
I often use Retool to develop working prototypes or new stand-alone features to easily integrate in our product. This approach accelerated testing of new functionalities, improved the feedback loop, and allowed for rapid iteration on prototypes. I think is the best tool to test and release new ideas (especially with AI).
What do you dislike about the product?
UI customization often requires to write custom CSS
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can ship much faster because we can use developers' time on core features while saving time on stand-alone features
Simple to use, fast to iterate
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of building out internal applications for the team or external prototypes to prove a solution without the need to scaffold a react or svelte application.
The time it takes to build applications are 1/10th of how I used to build applications.
The time it takes to build applications are 1/10th of how I used to build applications.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some limitations around the UX/UI that you wont have in your application in React and there are somewhat limited integrations against GCP.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most of the time its very easy to build out business process layers in retool using workflows to enable the business to build out the services and the data layers they need, then integrate it to retool to build out the business process layers.
The simplicity of managing these layers for non engineers are stunning and can create both frontends to manage it or manage it through simple changes in code and workflows.
The simplicity of managing these layers for non engineers are stunning and can create both frontends to manage it or manage it through simple changes in code and workflows.
I don't think the value of Retool can be overstated
What do you like best about the product?
We can VERY quickly prototype product ideas, prove concepts, deploy tailored internal tools, and build custom integrations between disparate systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the documentation for self-hosted implementation was a little lackluster and disjointed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're now able to marry our operational systems (sales, support, account management, etc.) and myriad data sources from every corner of our ecosystem. AND build bespoke automations that save countless hours of clerical work, and let our folks focus on far more important things.
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