Is it me or does the person presenting look uncanny, almost like a 3D avatar?
(I work at Retool.) Ankur is definitely a real engineer (and also a very nice human) who works at Retool! https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankur-rastogi/
Readit Newskrithix commented on Show HN: Retool Mobile retool.com/products/mobil... · Posted by u/dvdhsu
krithix commented on Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal? · Posted by u/krithix
Withings is having some decent sales, so I was thinking about one of their low-end scales and their BP monitor, and maybe their thermometer because I need a reliable one and I’d spend about the same on one at the local pharmacy anyway.
That’s about it for me I think. Still waiting for the new Mikrotik hap ax3 to be available somewhere, but don’t expect there to be any sales in that regard.
I have the BP monitor and the scale, and both are really useful / have good UX!
krithix commented on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool github.com/openblocks-dev... · Posted by u/shuaihan
Some feedback, as you asked for it and I signed up for both OpenBlocks and Budibase cloud versions today to try them out:
(NB: If I like either or both of them I’ll self host, as I have no interest in SaaS, indeed it’s what’s stopped me from using things like Retool despite missing RAD tools ever since Delphi stopped being a viable solution for me.)
OpenBlocks dropped me quickly into its pretty snappy app (literally just connected Github and done) and I was away and designing a simple screen in no time. Budibase on the other hand asked me a bunch of questions about my “company” and job, then dumped me straight into a wizard to create or connect to a database.
It felt like ages before I could start clicking and playing around. I nearly gave up and left at least twice and in fact ended up only trying the actual tools in Budibase out for a much shorter time as a result. Maybe I’ll go back to it later, but I’m already planning to deploy an OpenBlocks instance to mess around with more.
I massively prefer the OpenBlocks approach here. I want to be dropped quickly into a powerful and intuitive tool, not taken through a signup and data harvesting flow nor invited to create an app through a series of wizards. From what I see Budibase looks promising and it seems to have some features that OpenBlocks doesn’t (though the app also felt a bit less snappy than OpenBlocks and speed is really important), but the general experience as a new user was a bit much.
(I work at Retool.) We offer a self-hosted version of Retool if you're interested: https://retool.com/self-hosted/ The self-hosted option is also free for teams of up to 5 people under our new free plan.
krithix commented on Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation techcrunch.com/2022/07/28... · Posted by u/dvdhsu
I love the demo. I love the tooling.
Demo tips: Name your queries. Following along "query1, query2, query3" is confusing. You should following best practice (where it makes sense) during demos, and you're definitely not doing it.
The selling point of this tool shouldn't be for the developer, it should be for the manager. So add some "here are some other examples of tools we've created in a similar amount of time through a similar process" - then have UX's for different companies, industries, regions.
Non-technical management need ideas. This demo doesn't give it beyond "hey look you can create a button to update a table". So what? Every ERP and CRM SaaS has that!
(I work at Retool.) Appreciate the feedback! We are re-recording this video in the next few months. I'll make sure that we use better query names (and other best practices) in that video.