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What do you like best about the product?
We had a react web-app, served from an express-js server, pulling from a mongoDB (in the cloud). With ReTool, in less than two hours I rebuilt the core functionality of the web-app, allowing us to bin off the old one and the old server. I added features that have been on my "to-do" list for ages but have not had dev time for. It's a winner. I've already got my next 5 ReTool app ideas lined up!
What do you dislike about the product?
It's got limits on the number of users that can view/interact with your web-app, which for our use case means it's not well suited (we serve many low-value customers rather than a few high-value ones). But, as an internal tool for company use, it's great.
Oh, and if you need it to be super pretty, I don't think it's for you. I'm sure it could probably be done, but its focus seems to be on utility first (which suits me fine).
Oh, and if you need it to be super pretty, I don't think it's for you. I'm sure it could probably be done, but its focus seems to be on utility first (which suits me fine).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1) stopping paying to manage infra that I don't need or want.
Using ReTool has allowed us to replace an internal tool for managing user-access to our mobile-app. The big 'win' here is that on-going dev-time is now zero for this tool. ReTool handle it's upkeep. We built it, but don't have to worry about keeping the server up, or managing library updates, or other such things. My only future dev spend will be to add more features - which is exactly where I want my spend to be.
2) getting to *information* quicker
We have weekly KPIs that are drawn from multiple data sources (analytics, stripe, our mongoDB). Previously we had to spend time in each to fetch the data we needed for those KPIs. ReTool does the manual fetching for me now, so I can spend more time responding to those KPIs
Using ReTool has allowed us to replace an internal tool for managing user-access to our mobile-app. The big 'win' here is that on-going dev-time is now zero for this tool. ReTool handle it's upkeep. We built it, but don't have to worry about keeping the server up, or managing library updates, or other such things. My only future dev spend will be to add more features - which is exactly where I want my spend to be.
2) getting to *information* quicker
We have weekly KPIs that are drawn from multiple data sources (analytics, stripe, our mongoDB). Previously we had to spend time in each to fetch the data we needed for those KPIs. ReTool does the manual fetching for me now, so I can spend more time responding to those KPIs
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Developing internal tools has never been easier
What do you like best about the product?
The drag and drop UI components, easy to setup data connections, customizability just to name a few
What do you dislike about the product?
No real downsides. The product is excellent. We have not yet tested several aspects of the product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Developing internal tools is a painful process. Retool has made this so much easier. We have increased the productivity of our ops and engineering team significantly.
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What do you like best about the product?
The way data is organised in retool is great.. multiple queries, customisable queries etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its slow sometimes. I am not sure its due to internal or external dependency
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its a order management tool for us.. all backend activities are done here.
Best tool for getting an app out quickly
What do you like best about the product?
I wrote my API endpoints and I was able to quickly integrate with them and get a functional UI. This reduced development time by a lot and as a backend developer it made sure I could give something that was functional very quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documentation wasn't that great. Some examples in docs of how the raw javascript interacted with retool components would have been nice. The GCP integration is buggy, but I believe this is a known issue since there was a bug ticket.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps a developer get a product over the line without knowing much about front-end things and styling. I was about to complete my entire app in 3 days along with the tweaked javascripts.
It has speeded up the development of some internal webapps for the digitization of even procedures
What do you like best about the product?
It has speeded up the development of some internal webapps for the digitization of even complex procedures
Retool is a dashboard for the development of crud internal apps, it uses many sources including db, google sheet and more it is quite intuitive but it is equipped with a help done well and a good community
Retool is a dashboard for the development of crud internal apps, it uses many sources including db, google sheet and more it is quite intuitive but it is equipped with a help done well and a good community
What do you dislike about the product?
I didn't like the ability to have single page webapps not linked together in different screens
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves crud app development quickly and with a nice UIX
Incredible tool gives superpowers to anyone with a basic understanding of JS or SQL
What do you like best about the product?
Enables me, a relatively nontechnical person (who just knows some SQL and JS), to build prototypes and flows that I would have formerly needed eng support for
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing I dislike. It's amazing! Really great
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps me build internal tools without having to pull in eng resources
Tens of thousands of dollars for 5 users to limit production database access
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to deploy it inside of our own cluster has been great, and it's easy and quick to create apps that help internal business processes. We actually really, really like the core product offering.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have only 5 users that need to use the tool, but importantly we want 4 of them to just be able to view apps we've created, not edit them. This becomes really important because we are in a data-regulated industry and so we don't want them to be able to have edit/unrestricted read access to our production database, which is what allowing them to edit apps would essentially be. To accomplish this seemingly simple ask (we're not looking for advanced permission groups - literally just a way to prevent unrestricted database access) - we were quoted many, many tens of thousands of dollars on their enterprise plan. I found this insulting and really quite stunning that such an important product requirement is an "enterprise" usecase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
An internal dashboard to help manage customer accounts.
Retool is a great option for folks looking to build internal tools without relying on engineers.
What do you like best about the product?
I really like that retool's foundation is SQL + javascript, makes it complex enough to use but easy enough to google ways to make it work.
What do you dislike about the product?
I think some of the javascript portions of the tool could be 'block coded' / off the shelf vs. having to be coded by users (or let users submit their own blocks).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool is bridging the gap between something like Zapier and trying to build our own internal tool from scratch.
Perfect/Quick way to create any type of app
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility to create whatever application our team needs. We have created apps for our finance, tech, product, and marketing teams without the need to involve our Engineering teams. It has many popular connectors and easy to use components.
What do you dislike about the product?
As of right now, there is not much I dislike about Retool. I think they can have a slightly better experience in the drag and drop builder, but overall everything works great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can move way faster than before. This is extremely important for a start-up that needs to grow quickly. It was also allowed us to keep dedicated Engineering bandwidth on our product, while the rest of the team can focus on building apps and processes in Retool.
App and module features are excellent an super easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
App and module features. It allows me to create administrative templates in a matter of minutes. It is really useful to create the backoffice of my company
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to be able to organize the modules within subfolders, but at this moment it is not possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickly create interfaces to manage content
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