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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:
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Awesome toolkit to build internal tools at the speed flash :)
What do you like best about the product?
Drag and drop option to build productive layouts that scale with Adhoc task requirements. Awsome low code tool to build ad-hoc/planned dashboards. Other features like action flow builders have made it fairly good to design decent level systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Operation speed and contextual speed could have been a bit better though it serves the use case. Building high quality/functional tool require potential knowledge of SQL, Would be great if it also explores the no-code domain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Internal tools for ops and sales team for high impact Adhoc tasks. A great tool to manage records/transaction/workflow for low/medium scale.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great low-code tool to meet up requirements in less time, allows to build sustainable workflows which can bring desirable results.
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.
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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.
Best no code platform ever used
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and using SQL to execute CRUD operation make it very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing for some useful option is not very cheap, but it deserve his price.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I create small application in a very fast time for my customers
Great for data collection without writing programs
What do you like best about the product?
Great tool for creating quick and easy applications without having particular knowledge of software development. Useful for integrating other applications via API.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you want to create complex applications with a sequence of operations, it becomes a bit less simple and requires a more in-depth project analysis.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Use web tools through API calls. Bulk insertion of records by "basic" users and linking to tables from other databases. All with time and resource savings.
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.
Powerful tool for all users!
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to quickly standup mini-apps to help our internal staff operate more efficiently. With Technical resources at a premium, the ability for a product manager to stand up to these apps has saved us money and time across the board.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes we are limited due to the in-bowser memory. Running some processes in bulk crashes the system so either it needs to be divided up into smaller runs or run through another application.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We solve internal support problems and configuration. Allowing Retool to house apps to allow our staff to get to the information that may not have a UI wrapped around it or the ability to join multiple data sources together is key.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Identify a few apps you think you would use Retool for to start. Install a trial and just see how easy it is. The key with Retool is that you have to have the API's and database access and support to be successful.
Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
The diversity of drag and drop components and configurations offered for each covers almost all use cases.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it's hard to achieve the desired visual layout with the mouse, but the keyboard backup for precise positioning is helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Internal tools for a non-technical media publishing team. No direct access to the database is needed. No separate web app codebase or server management.
Retool is great to use and the documentation is pretty clear.
What do you like best about the product?
I get suggestions on what to type for code. This helped me overcome the learning curve and made it easier to build things quickly. I have not used a competitor so I don't know how Retool would compare, but just in general good documentation that covers as many situations as possible is always the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there were more Javascript query examples. Unless if that example is the real only way to be able to use Retool with JS. I felt pretty confused on how to manipulate different aspects of my table with Javascript and still don't really know how to do much more than the example given.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As mentioned above the only problem is not knowing how to fully use the JS Queries. I want to run an API call on about 9000 rows of data, and the API takes a while. The only way I have it set up is that I have to wait till the whole query is done before I can repopulate my table with the results- which just feels very hacky. I think there is a better way to do it, but trying to find it was hard. The benefits I realize are how powerful the UI is. I love the fact that I can easily build out these widgets and the biggest benefit of Retool is the ability to just manipulate the data easily in a safe read-only ara. I know that's one of the core product offerings, but it's just nice.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you know SQL- helped me get up and running quickly. (Simple SQL statements are easy enough to learn though.)
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