There is no download link, so how can this be self-hosted?
You can self-host here: https://retool.com/self-hosted. Most people deploy it as a docker container on an EC2 instance but there’s various options
Readit Newscuffe commented on Form to DB formtodb.com/... · Posted by u/donjh
And pricing! When this kind of service doesn't make its pricing clear it immediately puts me off.
Retool Forms is completely free. No arbitrary limits on the number of users, forms or submissions. I'll make this clearer on the landing page.
For building Retool Apps/Workflows, our pricing is here: https://retool.com/pricing
This links to the legacy table component.
Which should I use for new projects? I assume the new one?
Sorry just updated!
Form to db is simple task, the hard part is the table.
Agree, the table is the component we’ve spent the most time building: https://retool.com/components/table-new
Would be nice if there was some kind of demo or docs. Like this is basic landing page stuff at this point.
Here are the docs: https://docs.retool.com/apps/forms. Just added a link to them from the landing page. Agree we should also add a quick demo to the landing page
Hi all, engineer who worked on forms @ Retool here. Excited to get HN’s feedback on a new product I’ve been working on: Retool Forms. There are a ton of form builders out there (e.g. Typeform, Google Forms, Airtable Forms, etc.) and honestly we weren’t really looking to build another one. But as a developer, I wanted my data in my database, not in another SaaS app (which probably has a shoddy API, like every example I listed above). Surprisingly, the only way to build a form on top of my database was by a) building my own backend (probably via node), and b) building my own frontend (probably via React, and then maybe via formik). There was no “one click” form-on-top-of-my-database tool available.
So we decided to build a form builder. It allows you to:
1. Send data directly to your database (Postgres in our case), your data warehouse, or wherever else you want it
2. Write JS almost anywhere on the front-end, including libraries like moment and lodash, for custom validations, conditional logic, and data parsing
3. Run any arbitrary code in form submission (or validation), via our Workflows product
4. Store it in our database (where we give you a connection string), or your own database
5. Self-host it in your own VPC
And it’s free with no arbitrary limits on the number of users, forms or submissions.
I’m hoping to ship a bunch more features like integration to any REST API, more styling options, etc. If you have any feedback please let me know!
If they released the customer's data in some sort of specified format, would you support importing their workflows into Retool?
we'd love to make the migration as easy as possible and would definitely be open to building an import tool. In the meantime if you're migrating feel free to email me at jamie at retool.com and I'd be happy to help import
Llama 2 and Bedrock is exactly what we are looking at.
I have been playing around with it for a priority enterprise use-case at my org, and this seems promising. We tried using the Retool vectors, but it really struggles to pick up the right context if we dump data without pre-processing it. For example, adding a URL without stripping header/footers/disclaimers/cross links etc. I think adding some steerability to the context selection process is going to be key.
I also have to admit that while retool is extremely feature rich - the user-experience is clunky and the learning curve is steep.
Thanks for the feedback. We're currently working on customization with the url parser and trimming headers/etc makes a lot of sense. If you're able to share more about your use case (jamie AT retool DOT com), happy to get it tuned on your dataset