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Great for iterating on internal tools quickly
What do you like best about the product?
Superblocks is easy to use to build something from scratch really quickly. I was able to spin up a rich user interface pulling in data from multiple sources within a few hours. Making changes based on user feedback can happen in a matter of minutes rather than afters hours of coding and testing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Superblocks can be a bit inflexible and opaque. Complex variable and API function dependencies are difficult to encode. There's a set of components you can use and it's not easy to spin up a custom component.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks allows me to build flexible user interface applications quickly.
Great for building apps quickly
What do you like best about the product?
Superblocks abstracts away a lot of development overhead so that a fully-functional web app can be built with only a bit of Python or Javascript.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Superblocks works great for typical use cases, I do sometimes run into bugs or unsupported features when I am working on something niche.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks allows me to save huge amounts of time because I only have to write code to do the actual logical functions of the app I want to create, all of the overhead of displaying things to the user and calling APIs is handled in low-code/no-code.
Amazing low-code tool
What do you like best about the product?
It is very easy to connect data source and make some data visualization. The tool is simple to use. If you want to go further, custom components could be created in React, very good point.
What do you dislike about the product?
Always working with VSCode, the IDE provided for the code is not that UX friendly. The fact that when we press a component, the editing tool appears directly. Maybe an option like "Studio" or "Editing" will solve this issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data visualization
Built for building practical things quickly
What do you like best about the product?
- Library of integrations makes it simple to "plug and play" with many APIs and easy to migrate server endpoints
- Draggable components in applications make building web apps quick and easy for non-FE developers
- The scheduled jobs feature provides a nice interface for non-technical people to build cron jobs
- The ability to string together SQL queries, python scripts, and REST requests into a linear series of steps where you can pass data around makes building dashboards and workflows feel very intuitive
- The engineering support team is responsive, helpful, and cares: at one point in our onboarding process, we hit a roadblock and several people on their engineering team hopped on a video call with me to provide assistance. Much appreciated!
- Draggable components in applications make building web apps quick and easy for non-FE developers
- The scheduled jobs feature provides a nice interface for non-technical people to build cron jobs
- The ability to string together SQL queries, python scripts, and REST requests into a linear series of steps where you can pass data around makes building dashboards and workflows feel very intuitive
- The engineering support team is responsive, helpful, and cares: at one point in our onboarding process, we hit a roadblock and several people on their engineering team hopped on a video call with me to provide assistance. Much appreciated!
What do you dislike about the product?
The only thing that I disliked was that the on-prem deployment process took a while, which was the result of having a tech stack not entirely in AWS. I think that having more out-of-the-box guides for different tech stacks would be very helpful. That said, the Superblocks team was supportive throughout the process.
Some things that I don't dislike but could be improved:
- I've found myself writing many scheduled jobs with bounds checking for time (e.g. don't run a job before 9AM or after 5PM) in python, which I think would be more nicely placed in the scheduling interface than the code implementation
- More out-of-the-box graph support: I imagine that data visualization is not the end-goal, but more native graph support would be fantastic
- Would be great to have the FE hosted on customer-provided domains
Some things that I don't dislike but could be improved:
- I've found myself writing many scheduled jobs with bounds checking for time (e.g. don't run a job before 9AM or after 5PM) in python, which I think would be more nicely placed in the scheduling interface than the code implementation
- More out-of-the-box graph support: I imagine that data visualization is not the end-goal, but more native graph support would be fantastic
- Would be great to have the FE hosted on customer-provided domains
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks solves the problem of setting up quick dashboards and regularly-occurring jobs. It reduces the need to deploy full web-apps, provide API support, etc.
Game Changing Product
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of use and getting onboarded with the product is something that Superblocks provides in a pretty great way. Even the documentation that is provided is very helpful to understand the components and the workflows.
Even the Superblocks implementation team is very helpful and highly efficient in bridging any kind of learning gaps and workflow implementations
Even the Superblocks implementation team is very helpful and highly efficient in bridging any kind of learning gaps and workflow implementations
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently the only downside seems to be a concrete way for peer review or a feasible way to incorporate multiple reviewers and then have a deployment pipeline.
Maintenance of deployed apps can be a challenge sometimes.
Maintenance of deployed apps can be a challenge sometimes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks is helping in building low code solutions within hours , which would otherwise would have taken multiple days.
The workflows and Scheduled builders and their integration with the applications is a great benefit.
The workflows and Scheduled builders and their integration with the applications is a great benefit.
The Go-To Solution for Real-Time Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Superblocks is its user-friendly interface that allows for easy automation of workflows without sacrificing customization options. The platform seamlessly integrates with various tools, enabling us to create and manage complex tasks efficiently. Its drag-and-drop functionality, combined with the ability to add custom logic, makes it a powerful tool for both technical and non-technical users.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Superblocks is generally user-friendly, I find that some advanced features could be more robust. There are occasional performance lags, especially when handling larger or more complex workflows. Additionally, the customization options, while strong, sometimes require more technical know-how than anticipated, which might be challenging for users who are less technically inclined.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using it for case audit, for internal adhoc report and modification to database.
Great tool for quick app building!
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ability to create bite sized blocks, connect to APIs, and build working apps quickly. I mostly use for connecting to AI gateway to help me improve my efficiency. Deploying feels pretty straightforward.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can sometimes get a bit lost when setting up my connections to my buttons and text fields to what I want them to do. I feel like I could benefit from a cheat sheet or instructions for what I want to build.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I want to quickly build AI apps for my work and helping me improve efficiencies so getting ideas and implementing quickly for an MVP is ideal.
Great for standing up new internal tools very fast
What do you like best about the product?
Superblocks allows us to stand up new internal tools extremely fast - often just a day or two from idea to delivery. And it enables a much wider set of people in the org to work on those tools - often folks who would lack the background to approach a traditional web-application.
What do you dislike about the product?
You can get a new application running astonishingly fast, but then maintenance of those applications can be a challenge. I would not recommend having multiple developers try to work on the same app at the same time, even though this is technically supported via the git support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing us to prototype and deliver internal applications extremely fast.
This Tool Works
What do you like best about the product?
I'll preface by saying I'm a product manager first, with strong SQL chops but otherwise relatively low directly technical capabilities. I've had great success before building in Bubble, but when it came time for my company to replace our internal tools, the engineers wanted to use Superblocks, and I was chosen to lead the project.
I was able to work with a few of our senior BE engineers, and our DevOps engineer, to successfully design, build out, and release a new Admin Application for our Axial's marketplace, which serves thousands of professionals in the private capital markets.
The bottom line of this success story is that Superblocks allowed this PM to deliver an interface that would have taken engineers many months to build from scratch. There were no show-stopping features missing: pretty much requirement that mattered had support or a workaround. And now that my app is out, it's stable, has been met with rave reviews from my teammates, all the way up to the CEO, I'm able to ship really rapid iterations.
I was able to work with a few of our senior BE engineers, and our DevOps engineer, to successfully design, build out, and release a new Admin Application for our Axial's marketplace, which serves thousands of professionals in the private capital markets.
The bottom line of this success story is that Superblocks allowed this PM to deliver an interface that would have taken engineers many months to build from scratch. There were no show-stopping features missing: pretty much requirement that mattered had support or a workaround. And now that my app is out, it's stable, has been met with rave reviews from my teammates, all the way up to the CEO, I'm able to ship really rapid iterations.
What do you dislike about the product?
The biggest issue on my end was the learning curve, given I'm from a no-code background. So, thank goodness for ChatGPT. There was no shortage of puzzles to work out in order to get the app to behave the way I wanted, so creativity and patience were very important. This app does not come close to Bubble's ease of use and intuitiveness, for a user like me (where it wins against Bubble is the simplicity of pricing).
There are definitely LOTS of features and nice-to-haves we would like to see supported, but since what we built is an internal tool, and most of the basic capabilities are "good enough", we can now afford to shrug and move on.
The Superblocks team is relatively responsive in our shared Slack channel. Occasionally a day or so might go by without a response, but a simple bump with a mention is usually effective in getting their attention. And when we've had something truly critical (e.g., app is down, or for some reason folks on our team can't do their job), they have been most supportive in resolving ASAP.
There are definitely LOTS of features and nice-to-haves we would like to see supported, but since what we built is an internal tool, and most of the basic capabilities are "good enough", we can now afford to shrug and move on.
The Superblocks team is relatively responsive in our shared Slack channel. Occasionally a day or so might go by without a response, but a simple bump with a mention is usually effective in getting their attention. And when we've had something truly critical (e.g., app is down, or for some reason folks on our team can't do their job), they have been most supportive in resolving ASAP.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks provides an effective solution to enable a moderately technical person deliver a production-ready, enterprise internal application. Their capabilities gave me, a non-engineer, the superpower of being able to create a significant new experience for our internal tools, dramatically improving on the status quo and allowing us to sever off a massive slice of tech debt.
Helpful platform for creating internal tools quickly
What do you like best about the product?
Superblocks is great because it lets us construct frontend applications without needing to code, but also allows for using code where necessary. It's a sweet spot between no-code and full internal tooling. Support has also been very quick and responsive whenever I've engaged with them.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sharing blocks across different applications is suboptimal, and the libraries available in the Javascript environment are pretty minimal. More flexible environment creation would definitely help us with some of our apps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks helps us build robust internal tooling without needing to hire additional frontend engineers or UI engineers. We've been able to build a wide range of tools using just the low-code builder that Superblocks offers.
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