Retool
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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
Nice tool to build internal tools with or without interface
What do you like best about the product?
Workflows
Easy drag-and-drop experience to build interfaces
Easy drag-and-drop experience to build interfaces
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much integrations
Missing resources modification permission
Missing resources modification permission
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Less effort development prototypes and tooling for internal teams
Streamlining API Integrations with Retool: A Developer's Perspective
What do you like best about the product?
My favorite part about using Retool is how seamlessly it allows us to consume services from different APIs and tools. The built-in integrations significantly speed up the development process, making it incredibly efficient to build and deploy applications. Additionally, I really enjoy the GitHub integration, which simplifies version control and collaboration, and the fact that I don’t have to worry about hosting the application on my own servers is a huge plus.
What do you dislike about the product?
While I generally have a positive experience with Retool, one area for improvement could be the customization options for the UI components. Although the built-in components are robust, having more flexibility in styling and layout customization would enhance the user experience and allow for a more tailored interface to meet specific project needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool is solving the challenge of building and maintaining a complex back-office application that needs to interface with multiple APIs and databases. By providing a platform with pre-built components and seamless API integrations, Retool allows us to quickly develop and iterate on our back-office tools. This application is used daily by tens of employees, and the speed at which we can roll out updates and new features is crucial to maintaining our operational efficiency. Retool’s flexibility and ease of use have significantly reduced the development time and effort required, allowing us to focus more on refining the functionality and improving the user experience for our team.
Retool makes you a 10x develeoper
What do you like best about the product?
The iteration speed when building an app is what I like most with retool.
I build a first draft instead of writing a product specification, then the users test it and I can instantly modify or rebuild it the way the user prefers.
I build a first draft instead of writing a product specification, then the users test it and I can instantly modify or rebuild it the way the user prefers.
What do you dislike about the product?
That there is no way of separating creators and end users in a good way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool is solving a lot of lower priority feature requests which are cruital for the organization but that the tech team cannot work on right now.
Intuitive and easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive, easy to pick up, good UI for beginners
What do you dislike about the product?
Need to Code is JavaScript which is a downside for users with no programming knowledge to learn
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CRMs and authorization and other reports.
A very convenient tool
What do you like best about the product?
It makes the process of building internal data management tools incredibly easy, and lets us offload tasks to our customer support and account management teams with very little friction.
What do you dislike about the product?
Viewing the internal functionality of an app isn't the most intuitive process, especially if it's an app somebody else has built so you have no familiarity with it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The need to create small and simple tools and dashboards that non-technical people in the organization can use to access data and account management functionality.
Great tool for iteratively creating back-office tooling with high velocity.
What do you like best about the product?
It's quite intuitive to use and has great in integreation with Postgres (and other DBs and APIs). The speed of development and iteration is also great - it helps out team to build the right sollution for our stakeholders.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be nice if there was a batch download for all apps to keep a searchable backup but to do so all apps would need to opt into the GibHub flow which is not an option for us.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- quickly creating applications for our internal teams
- helping BE devs to create nice looking, well usable interfaces
- helping BE devs to create nice looking, well usable interfaces
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