Yes! I've been waiting for this for years! -- or rather, my customers have. Super stoked for Portals, and to see Retool move outside of the internal tooling niche. Looking perfect for small, customer-facing licensing portals.
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#12Antony here, PM at Retool. We’re really excited to share how you can quickly build portals and business software for your customers, partners, and vendors. We started Retool to help developers build internal tools faster—and along the way noticed that a lot of the same frustrations with complexity, costs, and data risks applied to building software for external users too. Developers are often forced to build from the…
I can't seem to find pricing information related to these 2 products
Unless companies have too much money to waste, it is hard for me to understand this per user pricing. You have to do the work the create the app, your data gets locked and you have got to pay per user as you scale. Are companies just have too much money or too inefficient?
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#13How good is scalabiliy? If I build a tool that processes 10 million orders a day, will it scale?
PM at Retool here. Generally speaking, as scalable as any other piece of software. Specifically: - Retool is datastore/backend-agnostic, so from a backend/data perspective it will be as scalable as whatever backend you’re using to process/store those orders. You can connect Retool to make requests to your own API, to directly query a database, etc. - From a frontend perspective, you can choose to deploy Retool using…
Is the pricing model per user for self-hosted or fixed fee?
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#14Really cool!
Retool embed reminds me a bit of Matterway in spirit. But also a bit like Pixiebrix.
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#15This seems like a big deal?
Depends?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was very interested in the embed functionality but yeah I can't pay that much per user
We actively work with folks on custom pricing that aligns with their needs, so would love to understand what model makes sense for you! If pricing is the blocker, you can email me at antony[at]retool[dot]com. Would love to help.
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