Retool
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A little intimidating at first but impressed with development speed
What do you like best about the product?
Was able to create an admin interface very fast. Developer friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Didn't find a clear documentation on how to achieve certain things (filtering some data before sending it to server, the possibility to use lodash in js expressions) - resorted to google search to find that out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Build internal company tools without code.
Get more value from your data in less time. Simples.
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
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
Ease of use
What do you like best about the product?
We are able to build tools for our internal teams quickly. We save numerous amount of engineering hours because of retool as we save the work to build out the UX.
What do you dislike about the product?
Retool is not cheap if users are not using the tool for their day-to-day work. Retool app that uses REST endpoint does not allow anonymous users to use the app. That is inconvenient and not cost effective for some of our apps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Save engineering hours in building internal tools
Best tool for simplifying dashboards
What do you like best about the product?
The tool is sued to create UI dashboards which can be linked to your website through API. The best part is that we can always customize it based on our needs. We used it for KYC dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is linked to Google Sheets as a backend support sheet which is good for cloud options but is not well for large databases. This makes the tool very slow at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool has solved real-time issues related to KYC flows for us. There have been cases where retool has been far better compared to the Native CRM that we possess.
It's very good app
What do you like best about the product?
Retool made building ui & internal tools easy, lot of time saving.
What do you dislike about the product?
Recently i faced some issue with sending form data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I build some quick ui connecting with apis & build internal tools
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nothing it's doing good
Good RAD environment
What do you like best about the product?
No server to manage.
Easy to use with external APIs so no need to give a 3rd party website direct DB access.
Great support.
Easy to use with external APIs so no need to give a 3rd party website direct DB access.
Great support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Javascript is finicky and difficult to debug.
Retool would benefit greatly from an integrated debug suite of tools so we don't have to debug from the browser like we're still in 1999.
Retool would benefit greatly from an integrated debug suite of tools so we don't have to debug from the browser like we're still in 1999.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to develop internal tools like customer support.
We can easily setup 3rd party partners with a secure Retool instance so we don't have to deal with our company firewalls, auth, etc.
We can easily setup 3rd party partners with a secure Retool instance so we don't have to deal with our company firewalls, auth, etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
N/A
Easy and useful
What do you like best about the product?
It is very intuitive, you don't need too much programming knowledge to build dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it is hard to find what you are looking for. The screen gets too crowded, I believe there should be a better way to organize things.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for ticket management and to analyze ticket submissions. Also, we use different dashboards to see who is available in our app.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think it is an easy and intuitive way to build your custom business tool adapted to your needs.
Simple and fast way to create UIs
What do you like best about the product?
It has all the components needed to create a UI, both basic and advanced stuff. Also lots of customization options for each of these components.
What do you dislike about the product?
Exporting apps as static files and directly hosting them on our own
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can develop UIs much faster. We spend less time on developing UIs and more time on more features or more projects.
Super handy tool to quickly design any web app
What do you like best about the product?
There are a variety of data sources that can be used to integrate with the app. There are lots of visuals available that can be configured easily. Moreover, you can install this tool on your choice of Cloud.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be good if we can ad some programming components as well. Like a Python script.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are reading data from one data source, editing it on the UI & then saving it into target DB.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It can be used to quickly create a web app.
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