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Awesome tool
What do you like best about the product?
There are many great things about Superblocks, more specifically:
1- As a non technical user, I'm still able to create reports and work well
2- The UI is quite simple
3- Support is always ready to help and offer great solutions
1- As a non technical user, I'm still able to create reports and work well
2- The UI is quite simple
3- Support is always ready to help and offer great solutions
What do you dislike about the product?
While I'm enjoying using Superblocks, some things that I don't enjoy:
1- I feel limited with what I can achieve due to my non-technical background
2- I couldn't find a way to reference code across apps, which would make it so much easier to use
1- I feel limited with what I can achieve due to my non-technical background
2- I couldn't find a way to reference code across apps, which would make it so much easier to use
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks has made it very easy to create multiple applications and reports that help us find information we need easily, and visualize data without the need to query DBs nor use other more complicated tools.
Great enabling tool for rapid internal app iteration
What do you like best about the product?
Superblocks has enabled me to rapidly build internal tools for my team, seamlessly integrating with AWS databases. I am mainly familiar with python and sql so it's great to be able to build apps using the superblocks component library, letting me focus on the data manipulation, workflow and design aspects instead. Superblocks support is also very responsive, which has been a huge help as I've navigated their new git features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some aspects of switching between coding in python and sql feel clunky to me - each sql query needs to be its own code block and adding new code blocks has some friction, especially when I need to edit them; I am more used to navigating code in vs code which has nicer formatting and other tools for quickly editing and adding code compared to superblocks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's great to have a tool that has built-in component library with fairly high customizability. I'm currently using superblocks to build out internal apps for data and process tracking, enabling me to spend more time on the design and data processing workflows rather than building out a front end on my own (an area where I don't have much knowledge).
Excellent solution for developer-first internal tool building. Great support.
What do you like best about the product?
Being developer-first, Superblocks doesn't try to do too much hand holding. It allows for flexible building of the back end while making the front end easy. The support team has been great to work with.
What do you dislike about the product?
At the moment there are a few areas where minor functionality we need is missing, but they are actively adding new features so I trust that it's only a matter of time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Internal business app development
Great for quickly building internal tooling
What do you like best about the product?
Superblocks makes frontend development super quick and easy. It abstracts away the details of React to make web development accessible to teammates in a wide range of functions, from design to product management to backend development, while offering a good amount of customization and the ability to add custom React components if you need UI or behavior they don't already support. The drag-and-drop experience suits developing from a wireframe design, and the theming tools are easy to use.
It's super easy to integrate with existing GraphQL and REST APIs, and there's good support for a variety of backend authentication schemes.
The recent addition of version control and continuous integration have vastly improved the experience of collaborating with teammates on an app. Going through QA of a feature branch on a Superblocks app is worlds easier because Superblocks deploys a preview instance with a shareable URL for each commit you make, abstracting away the containerization work normally involved in standing up a QA instance.
Permissions and access controls are simple to use and sufficient for our needs.
Customer service is unparalleled, better than any enterprise software vendor I've worked with. Superblocks achieves a relatively fast turnaround time between feature request and delivery, and the support engineers are super competent.
It's super easy to integrate with existing GraphQL and REST APIs, and there's good support for a variety of backend authentication schemes.
The recent addition of version control and continuous integration have vastly improved the experience of collaborating with teammates on an app. Going through QA of a feature branch on a Superblocks app is worlds easier because Superblocks deploys a preview instance with a shareable URL for each commit you make, abstracting away the containerization work normally involved in standing up a QA instance.
Permissions and access controls are simple to use and sufficient for our needs.
Customer service is unparalleled, better than any enterprise software vendor I've worked with. Superblocks achieves a relatively fast turnaround time between feature request and delivery, and the support engineers are super competent.
What do you dislike about the product?
Continous deployment would be a great addition to the development lifecycle. Merge conflicts are rough to resolve as well.
There's more room for improvement in developer experience: The GraphQL integration is workable but not fully featured, and code reusability is not well supported. We find ourselves doing a lot of copy-pasting for bits of behavior/logic we need frequently, both in components and in API integrations. API integrations don't accept parameters currently, which also makes them less reusable.
There's more room for improvement in developer experience: The GraphQL integration is workable but not fully featured, and code reusability is not well supported. We find ourselves doing a lot of copy-pasting for bits of behavior/logic we need frequently, both in components and in API integrations. API integrations don't accept parameters currently, which also makes them less reusable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it to quickly stand up GUIs for data backfilling services, as well as to build more complex customer management tooling involving large forms. It meets our needs because the primary complexity of our work is on the backend; opting for a simpler, abstracted frontend development process keeps the feature development lifecycle overall proportionately weighted. We can spend less time on the (for us) simple problems on the frontend, leaving us free to focus on the core of the work on the backend.
Best Admin Tooling Out There
What do you like best about the product?
Superblocks is an incredibly easy way to spin up admin tooling. I honestly use it every single day to manage all of our stacks. I've used things like Retool, Airplane, etc, but I was shocked by how much faster I could move with Superblocks.
We're heavy users of the on-prem agents which let us build admin tooling across a variety of stacks, all with a much lighter compute footprint than self-hosted Retool or Airplane.
Support has also been awesome, the infra team has been super responsive and even merged my PRs against their on-prem agent helm repo.
We're heavy users of the on-prem agents which let us build admin tooling across a variety of stacks, all with a much lighter compute footprint than self-hosted Retool or Airplane.
Support has also been awesome, the infra team has been super responsive and even merged my PRs against their on-prem agent helm repo.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there were an easier way to reuse APIs and blocks across applications. I find it so easy to spin up apps that I'll often do a one-off API or application and want to reuse it later in another app. I think their workflows feature probably fills this gap, but I don't tend to plan out reusability when I'm just spinning up a quick app or test dashboard. I would love to be able to convert things into reusuable blocks.
I do wish the creator seats were a little cheaper. Because we use on-prem agents and SSO, we need the enterprise tier which is a little pricey.
I do wish the creator seats were a little cheaper. Because we use on-prem agents and SSO, we need the enterprise tier which is a little pricey.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Superblocks to build backroom/admin tooling for our software. We often build experiments that we administer in Superblocks before building out a user facing tool for our customers. Superblocks OPAs also make it really easy to do this across many stacks in a secure way.
The tool every company needs.
What do you like best about the product?
The tool is self-explanatory, easy to use and contains a complete tool set for internal dashboarding. Truly a one-stop-shop. The customer support is helpful and quick to respond. Lastly, they offer a range of hosting/deployment options that helped with our security requirements.
What do you dislike about the product?
You can do custom plot components if with Plotly, but it would be nice to have a more native and rich plotting component.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Internal analytical dashboarding
Easy to use tool for backend developers to make internal tools in days
What do you like best about the product?
Superblock has a lot of important functionality, integrations and workflows that allows you to make forms for external teams like marketing and sales to change assets without the need of developers. The S3, Github, and Secret Manager integrations are game changer ones. I also like that the sales solution engineers are so fast to respond and try to get you unstuck or file new feature tickets so you can move fast.
What do you dislike about the product?
As of writing this review, Superblocks is still missing some important features like multiple devs being able to collaborate concurrently like Figma, ease of use for image handling, UI markers and the ability to dynamically adjust the main form. I trust the team will be able to have these features out at some point.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks solves the problem of me being able to quickly create internal apps for non-technical teams like sales and marketing to self serve assets and text they want to change without me needing to go into the database or make API calls myself. I can see usage in the future of anything that is not customer facing and work that needs to be done in the backend. The greatest value I see is the ability for backend developers like me who do not want to spend weeks creating UI elements to create a tool that can remove operational burden off my workload.
Excellent development site and tech support
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to connect to my external database and to incorporate that data into my front end elements (tables, dropdowns, other fields). They have good documentation and video tutorials, and I was able to get information quickly via chat, when I needed more help. Their IT team even followed up with me, via email, to let me know that they made an enhancement that I needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would have liked an integration that is backwards compatible with MySQL 5.x, but I understand that's difficult because that version is no longer supported. They also don't have an option yet for external users, but I'm hopeful they'll release that version soon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks allows me to create tables and forms quickly and integrate those with my data. I can also integrate that data easily with Jotform, and I can pull my Jotform submissions easily by creating a Superblocks integration, to connect to Jotform's API.
Super flexible and super helpful
What do you like best about the product?
Superblocks has been a great addition to our toolset for internal solutions. We can spin things up way faster than before.
We have integrated this toolset into our day-to-day operations and has helped a ton with standardization and visualization.
It was very easy to start up and is easy maintenance across the board.
Also, their team is phonomenal. They are always willing to help with any issues or help drive for new offerings in their product based upon your feedback.
We have integrated this toolset into our day-to-day operations and has helped a ton with standardization and visualization.
It was very easy to start up and is easy maintenance across the board.
Also, their team is phonomenal. They are always willing to help with any issues or help drive for new offerings in their product based upon your feedback.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes we have to build out our own pieces to use (but they just added custom react component support so not as big of a deal).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
They helped our team generate UI for our devops tasks with less maintenance and more speed then we had before.
Truly built with engineering teams in mind!
What do you like best about the product?
It has been an absolute pleasure working with Superblocks (both the team and the application itself!). Not only has it been relativley easy to integrate with our existing APIs, but the developer experience of actually putting together apps and tools has been great. Engineers are excited to work in Superblocks and have even described the experience as fun! We have also been consistently impressed by the teams responsiveness to our concerns and the speed with which they have picked up work related to our major pain points. At every step of the process the team has been incredibly quick to work with us on finding a solution and keeping our momentum to drive adoption across our org.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's very little I can put in the dislike column about Superblocks. At almost every turn they have preempted my asks with either full releases or an explainer of where it falls into the roadmap. I think one pain point that I would love to see evolve/continue to improve is around code re-usability - we do find ourselves copying standard code from one app to another when it doesn't neatly fit in a workflow. Overall though, we've been incredibly happy with Superblocks!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Superblocks helps us increase the speed to delivery of our internal tooling. We have our own internal admin tool that has become a pain to maintain over time and it is a breath of fresh air to be able to spin up new tooling for our internal teams with greater speed again. Superblocks also servers as a more convenient integration point with other third party systems our business uses, without requiring our engineering teams to build specific and one off integrations for each.
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