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Empowering us to focus on what matters
What do you like best about the product?
A couple years ago, I first was implementing retool to help with internal tooling, but it was prohibitively expensive for the size of the company at the time. We then rolled our own react app, but building on top of it was so time consuming and boilerplate. Not just from a UI building perspective, but also the amount of custom APIs we had to build just to do simple queries. Then Superblocks came along.
We constantly need new tools, dashboards, and scheduled jobs - any of which can be prototyped in an afternoon immediately after having an idea. The free limits to explore all of this is incredibly generous. It gave me enough space to assess the pros and cons of the platform before making a bet. This matters tremendously when every dollar counts. We're at a point now though that I feel confident going forward with Superblocks as the company needs to scale.
Creating APIs with your integrations is phenomenal. I can make DB queries, format it with JavaScript, and pipe it to another API all very easily. It even has control flow capabilities such as loops, conditionals, etc. Sometimes I wish it was this easy to make our own APIs.
The support and documentation is also fantastic. Anytime I find what could be an issue, the support chat is quick and staffed with knowledgeable engineers. I've always had my issues resolved, or they offered approaches to solve what I need to do.
We constantly need new tools, dashboards, and scheduled jobs - any of which can be prototyped in an afternoon immediately after having an idea. The free limits to explore all of this is incredibly generous. It gave me enough space to assess the pros and cons of the platform before making a bet. This matters tremendously when every dollar counts. We're at a point now though that I feel confident going forward with Superblocks as the company needs to scale.
Creating APIs with your integrations is phenomenal. I can make DB queries, format it with JavaScript, and pipe it to another API all very easily. It even has control flow capabilities such as loops, conditionals, etc. Sometimes I wish it was this easy to make our own APIs.
The support and documentation is also fantastic. Anytime I find what could be an issue, the support chat is quick and staffed with knowledgeable engineers. I've always had my issues resolved, or they offered approaches to solve what I need to do.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are usability issues here and there with the ergonomics of the app editor - copying and pasting components, creating layouts, etc, but nothing that halts my flow state. It also takes some getting used to with certain patterns, like using temporary variable states to control different parts of your app. This becomes harder to manage as your apps become more complex, but just takes some getting used to. I think them adding more refactoring capabilities would help with this.
One other thing that could use some improvement is reusability. I often need to reuse a group of components with some logic in other apps, and unfortunately I just have to remake them. Fortunately on the API side, you can create what's called a Workflow and share API logic. I'd love to see this with components and more basic JavaScript logic I create.
One other thing that could use some improvement is reusability. I often need to reuse a group of components with some logic in other apps, and unfortunately I just have to remake them. Fortunately on the API side, you can create what's called a Workflow and share API logic. I'd love to see this with components and more basic JavaScript logic I create.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It lets us focus on what matters - the core business. I don't want to spend time debugging UI components, scaffolding projects, and deploying internal tooling. With Superblocks we can prototype and operate much quicker, and actually enjoy building.
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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
Powerful set of features to rapidly build out system tools. Inclusion of python is a huge plus1
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the ease of building work flows. Also really like the inclusion of python scripting into the system (with a broad set of modules enabled). This allows me to quickly develop solutions without having to build out external API's or systems. The system is easy to set up and use. I was able to develop some quick solutions right out of the box. Once you understand how the workflow system works with the user interface elements, things move very quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
The styling is limited. Not really a way to add my own CSS. This limits my use for public facing solutions. Also, the workflow costs may become an issue over time. As my workflow complexity increase..that expense could ramp up quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Back off "glue" tools. i.e. building out tools on top of our DB and API's to provide internal users tools to complete their tasks.
Easy to build powerful internal apps
What do you like best about the product?
I found it very intuitive to use and extremely powerful. It handles a lot of the complexity of building internal apps for me. I was able to figure out how to start building the app I wanted in less than 15 minutes! Easily integrates with a lot of tools and can use REST API calls for any integrations that aren't native.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still not sure when or why to use Workflows vs just building in the Backend API builder. Wish I could use it for building external apps as well, but that's because I like it so much!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Built an internal app to help with outbound sales.
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.
Powerful and Private
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to keep our data in our own AWS stores without having to ship or share it to a 3rd party. And that mechanism also allowed us to add features and capabilities to the local python agent .
Also had great support for doing this customization which was actually very easy to the most part, making it trivial to integrate.
Also had great support for doing this customization which was actually very easy to the most part, making it trivial to integrate.
What do you dislike about the product?
The cost structure isn't quite ideal for us, but not a blocker.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making add hoc tools to support Dev and adminstration while protecting PII. Adding a GUI in front of internal tooling.
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.
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