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I have been actively following this space. I think there is a huge fallacy in a tool like this. At surface most of the developers love the idea, you often get feedback that people would use it but time comes people just not integrate their service with a platform like this. You have to build huge amount of trust either by raising from popular VC, Angel's, blogpost by reputed dev advocates, socialproofing. For a gener…
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This is a really good idea and something that is on our roadmap to add templates to accelerate tooling development. We're learning about the most common use cases and going to build templates to shortcut getting started. The other thing we've discussed is upon connecting an integration (ex. Postgres) automatically giving you a postgres admin app, similar to what you get with a Django admin for example. Is that what w…
A Django admin replacement would be wonderful and something I'd absolutely love to build with Superblocks!
The reason others have chosen to stay with Django admin and not move to Superblocks is they spent a ton of time investing in it (and it works quite well), the switching cost ends up being high.
Congrats! Seems like a Retool competitor but focused more on developers? I'm not sure if that's the direction I would go since developers already have pretty good tooling for their level of expertise, IMO. Although, I could see how building an app that uses data across the various SaaS tools a company uses without requiring that data to be dumped into another database could be useful. Maybe I'm missing the point. As…
For example you mentioned Retool which has a UI builder, but also Zapier and more recently BI tools. We have a customer who's moving off Tableau which was a surprise at first because Tableau is well designed for fast analysis for SQL-only users and that's not our core audience.
I guess we don't really deliver on what you're looking for wrt an offering for less technical users than developers, because to really be proficient in Superblocks you'll need to understand SQL, calling APIs, Python or JS to get the full value.
regarding Google Sheets integration that is our most popular integration alongside Postgres, the end users can easily user it like a database.
I have used airplane for scheduled jobs, I like their configuration/definition file driven development flow. I am not a fan of writting code in browser.
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We are another of Superblocks' early customers, and we've found it really useful for creating internal tools quickly. We still prefer to write some of our more heavyweight tools in React to leverage component reuse, etc, but we like this for lightweight tools that don't have a lot of complex frontend logic.
Component reuse is something we are tackling on our end. We are working on a custom components feature so that you can bring your own components to Superblocks and reuse them across applications. Would that help replace some of the heavyweight tools you currently prefer to build in React?
Looks like it has tons of potential, but from watching your demo, developing steps using a bunch of form fields is going to be very tedious, especially when you're trying to test/debug things and have to flip between screens constantly.
Sorry to be that guy, but I would never rely the business core on a company like that. That's why I like Tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com (no affiliation) - they are open source. That mitigates the risk to a level that I'd personally accept.