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Perfect/Quick way to create any type of app
What do you like best about the product?
Flexibility to create whatever application our team needs. We have created apps for our finance, tech, product, and marketing teams without the need to involve our Engineering teams. It has many popular connectors and easy to use components.
What do you dislike about the product?
As of right now, there is not much I dislike about Retool. I think they can have a slightly better experience in the drag and drop builder, but overall everything works great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can move way faster than before. This is extremely important for a start-up that needs to grow quickly. It was also allowed us to keep dedicated Engineering bandwidth on our product, while the rest of the team can focus on building apps and processes in Retool.
App and module features are excellent an super easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
App and module features. It allows me to create administrative templates in a matter of minutes. It is really useful to create the backoffice of my company
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to be able to organize the modules within subfolders, but at this moment it is not possible.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quickly create interfaces to manage content
A racecar for development
What do you like best about the product?
More people can now develop LOB software
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing to dislike, so much to like
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing executives and staff to see how our users are experiencing the app. We've benefited from faster development time and increased velocity.
Retool just works.
What do you like best about the product?
I used retool for an internal tool, and it let me build a dashboard on top of Postgres for others to use on the team, and it was great to build in.
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning curve was a bit steep initially, but I was able to figure it out quite fast as it's based on JS + SQL
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool is making it easy for me to build internal tools without having to waste hours on authentication/access control + UI design. It lets me put more time into the actual product rather than on internal tooling.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make a postgres admin dashboard even easier to build
Retool has been an excellent tool
What do you like best about the product?
It makes it super easy to put together operational and internal tools without needing to use engineers. It saves us a lot of time and engineering resources since Product Managers can build those tools themselves.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you don't take extreme cart, it can be pretty difficult to keep track of all the variables you're using. It should also be simpler to trigger mutations by passing them variables.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Retool to build our internal tooling and it provides us a low-code platform to connect with our internal API's to build experiences for our operations users. Using retool we can build these things much more quickly and iterate on them without needing to divert engineering resources.
This is an incredible tool.
What do you like best about the product?
The CEO was first reluctant when I first showed it to him, but when I started building tools in 10x the speed that I would have to implement it from scratch, he was converted.
What do you dislike about the product?
Please please please add mulitple tag support for tables. They would look so much better than the current JSON viewer.
Typescript support. This would be a serious gamechanger for me.
Typescript support. This would be a serious gamechanger for me.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Retool removes the burden of having to build UI components simply to display analytics or to look at a database. I can pile up multiple database connections without facing any issues.
Very Impressed so far
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy that Retool, as far as I can tell, is a javascript GUI overflowing with connectors. I haven't coded in javascript in 20 years yet still found it incredibly intuitive to sketch out my first application from start to finish within about a day, integrating feedback just as quickly. I was able to rapidly integrate back-end views I had created to support this without having to fiddle with connection strings or anything like that. I enjoy the fact that just about any input can be controlled by passing javascript statements, and that once you understand this the sky is the limit.
I do not have enough experience with similar tools for comparison to identify deficiencies. I have also been using this tool for ~ two weeks, so asses my feedback in that context. Most of my experience is in analytics, working primarily in SAS, R, Python, and various implementations of SQL.
I do not have enough experience with similar tools for comparison to identify deficiencies. I have also been using this tool for ~ two weeks, so asses my feedback in that context. Most of my experience is in analytics, working primarily in SAS, R, Python, and various implementations of SQL.
What do you dislike about the product?
Retool is great for rapidly building new apps for internal users and iterating through them. It is very flexible and customizable. This makes it very powerful. However, it suffers the same risk in the development space as Excel has in the financial space: it seems subject to the whims of the user and could easily lend itself to nightmare code and nightmare maintenance. In the right hands, it is perfect for its intended use case but may draw lesser-experienced users into building infrastructure off of it instead of relying on the engineering teams where that work is more appropriate.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rapid development and iteration for approvals and denials in our process flow. We can test ideas in real-time, identifying flaws before trying to engage engineers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is as powerful and flexible as Excel is in other domains, with similar risks.
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.
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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