What do you like best about the product?

I'm not going to regurgitate what's already on the Superblocks website. Here's my honest and raw thoughts on it after using it for a few months:
- The #1 thing you need to keep in mind is that Superblocks is for SAVING TIME and INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY.
- Yes, you can style things and make things fancy in Superblocks, but why bother? You are choosing a platform that is that is going to minimise developer time spent on building internal tooling. Therefore, use the out-of-the-box defaults so that you can have the maximum benefits. Ask yourself an important question. Do you really need to make internal tooling look pixel perfect and follow branding? Because if you want to fiddle with customising everything then do yourself a favour and just write your applications using whatever frameworks you like, your developers will not like being told to do all of that in Superblocks.
- Superblocks is really simple to use with a small learning curve.
- We have a Slack Connection with the Superblocks team and they are very responsive and helpful. We've raised issues and those issues have been investigated and fixed in a timely manner. Thanks guys.
- Our plan is to rewrite all of our internal tooling using Superblocks, of course this will need to be done over time, as and when we have capacity.

In addition, Superblocks means you don't have to worry about the following:
- Writing deployment scripts - It's just a button you press
- Dealing with failed deployments - I've not seen a deployment fail yet
- Keeping dependencies up to date and ensuring dependency versions are compatible with one another - Superblocks handles this
- Having a linter nag at you - Actually it does have one built in but it's not too intrusive and it doesn't actually get in your way
- Trying to satisfy a type checker - There's no type checking, which could be a bad thing, but even as a massive TypeScript fan this has not been a huge issue for me yet
- Being patient whilst a code-analysis tool like SonarQube tries to teach you how to suck eggs 🤨
- Debating folder structure and naming conventions
- Setting up and maintaining code bundling (i.e. Webpack etc)
- Worrying about runtime versions
- Supporting stack trace mapping
- Writing authentication code
- Writing authorization code (for the most part)
- Writing tests (🤫) - You can't write automated tests at the moment, but there are ways around this
- Choosing a frontend framework
- Writing components
- Writing HTML
- Writing CSS
- Worrying about design
- Writing boilerplate functionality (like paging, filtering)
- Worrying about browser support (i.e. checking Can I Use)
- Waiting for someone to write a backend (you can do this yourself)
- Choosing a backend framework

What do you dislike about the product?

I haven't come across any major downsides yet, and I've been using it for some time now. These are my honest thoughts:
- It would be nice to have client-side functions, although we found a couple of workarounds for that for most of our use cases.
- I'm personally not 100% convinced with the whole Superblocks workflows thing. As in, I wouldn't rush to rewrite all my backend logic in Superblocks. But it does have a lot of potential when you consider the RBAC functionality so it's one to keep an eye on. Also, if your team knows nothing about writing backend code then they can easily make a dog's dinner out of the job so if that's the case then it's probably better you just do it in Superblocks 😂
- The code editor is a little poor, I tend to cut the code, paste it into VS Code, make the changes, then paste it back in. It's not a hassle and I prefer doing this as I can use all my VSCode plugins, shortcuts, etc.
- There's no support for writing automated tests. We have ways around this as follows:
1) Selenium (webdriver) testing (yes I'm not a huge fan of this)
2) For complex functions, you can write a unit test suite and check it into source control somewhere. Any time you make an amendment to the function, simply copy/paste the new implementation into that repository and check the tests pass (and add any new tests as per the amendments). This works well for me.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Internal tooling takes long to develop. Superblocks speeds that up so we can deliver faster.

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.

What do you like best about the product?

Superblocks has allowed our team to create all sorts of automations, integration and applications for one off to longer term use cases as it fits our needs. The quickness of setting things up for the value it generates has been phenomenal and customer support has been top notch. Quick assistance and replies to all my requests and highly recommend using them to build out anything you think could be automated

What do you dislike about the product?

None so far. For the use cases I've had it run, I have had no issues

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

there are so many metrics, dashboards, workflows that are all spread out or non existant in our organization that have either been hard to make or just not possible. Superblocks has enabled so many capabilities for us and excited to continue to use them moving forward

What do you like best about the product?

Superblocks has been great to automate manual processes such as weekly/monthly reports for other teams in our company. I write mostly in Python so being able to put this code into a Superblocks Workflow or application so programmes are available to colleagues who don't use any code is really helpful. The Superblocks team have been incredibly helpful and quickly in responding to my queries- often sending me clear examples and the documentation available is also well detailed!

What do you dislike about the product?

I have to deal with a lot of spreadsheets and being able to manipulate/create .xlsx files on a timely basis is huge part of my role, sometimes I've struggle navigating my way around the available Python libraries to achieve the goal but as afore mentioned the team have always been incredibly helpful with this!

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Superblocks simplifies the process of encoding programs I've designed for different departments to enhance their workflows and reporting. I've been able to easily transform scripts into applications or schedule routine tasks, allowing myself for greater efficiency and time allocation towards other new projects.

What do you like best about the product?

Building custom integrations and easily building a dashboard for various other products was an awsome experience. When I was stuck on something, support came through with a real person quickly and provided solutions to my problems. Overall an amazing product!

What do you dislike about the product?

There may be a bit of a learning curve if you aren't familiar with API calls or javascript but support is always there to help.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a dashboard to display ticket data from multiple ticketting systems as well as network monitoring data. Superblocks let us integrate any API and easily parse and display a professional dashboard in a fraction of the time it would have taken to build it from scratch.

What do you like best about the product?

The combination of workflow builder and app builder is great. The UI is very intuitive and documentation is very comprehensive.

What do you dislike about the product?

Price jump from free tier to paid is quite big

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is making the creation of API call chain very seamless

What do you like best about the product?

It's extremely robust and easy to get started on, especially when testing use cases or interfaces with internal teams and customers. A real force multiplier for lean teams.

What do you dislike about the product?

Wish there is a way for code written to be maintained off the platform (eg. a Github connection). Can be hard to search, modify or reuse code snippets in larger, more complex projects

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Data ingestion and cleanup interface.
2. Prompt engineering interface

What do you like best about the product?

Really easy to use and implement, and perfect for a team that is just starting to build internal tools and admin panels. The team is amazing, and they provide excellent customer support. An all-round group of great friendly people.

What do you dislike about the product?

great product all round. Best if you adopt it as you start building internal tooling.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

frees up developer time, and allows us to focus on what really matters.

What do you like best about the product?

It is incredibly quick and simple to build tools. With very little effort, and almost no boilerplate code to write and maintain, we are able to introduce needed tools at a far more rapid pace than with our previous, semi-proprietary method. While there are other platforms that can provide similar end results, when comparing them, I felt that Superblocks streamlines the process significantly. While their stable of pre-set integrations is still somewhat limited, their ability to use REST APIs and OpenAPI means your build capabilities are not limited. Their documentation is good, but where it is missing something, their support team is a chat away, and responds quickly and with familiarity with the platform, getting you the answer you need without making you wait days for a support engineer. Our legacy platform took weeks of work by a talented and driven team before we could even build our first tool, but with Superblocks, we had production ready tools in a matter of days.

What do you dislike about the product?

The UI designer has some oddities that take some getting used to, and there are some things (like being able to show users the time left on a timer object) that are not available. Currently, granting access to internal or on-premise data requires commiting to running all tools through the on-premise agent, with no hybrid connectivity model as of writing.

However, based on their documentation, they are constantly looking to improve and increase the capabilities of the platform. Anything I dislike can be creatively solved with the capabilities they do provide.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Superblocks allows us to rapidly build and deploy tools that enable our staff to perform tasks that would require either overprovisioning permissions or knowledge that is not reasonable to expect them to have in their position or career path. My systems engineers can provide these tools in a fraction of the time it used to take us.

What do you like best about the product?

Superblocks made it really easy to create one centralized place to view all of our data and research. We needed something that was faster with a better UI/UX than Salesforce and LookerStudio. The built-in components are great, but the emphasis on the ability to customize our apps via custom components is what led us to choosing Superblocks over Retool. Big fan of their documentation as well - makes it even easier to get set up.

What do you dislike about the product?

No negative feedback for the most part - one dream feature would be some sort of chat like interface that could read over all their docs and help tell me whether or not it's possible to build certain charts / features.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating one centralized repository for all our research and data in an easy to consume way