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Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Post by navaneethpk »

victor106 wrote: post #27
navaneethpk wrote: post #2

Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

This looks cool. What did you use to generate the documentation? https://docs.tooljet.io/docs/intro/

Docusaurus - It's easy to customise and good enough even without customisations.

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Post by Artistry121 »

This space is very hot right now. This looks amazing. I can't wait to use it.

ToolJet, NocoDB, fabrica.dev are all projects I've found recently in this space.

I've been really thinking a lot about how to bring tools like this to businesses and make them useful. I still think there's a lot of training and material needed to make these ultimately powerful. Love Open Source!

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Post by arey_abhishek »

Pretty cool project to build in 7 weeks! Congratulations! Your lockdown has been way more productive than for some of us.

I'm a founder of Appsmith, which Tooljet mentions in the GitHub project as an inspiration. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

We are an Apache 2.0 licensed internal apps builder that's being used by teams in Adobe, IBM, MSFT, Rappi, Swiggy, and 1000's of other companies.

Difference vs. other projects mentioned here: 1. Community edition is free for unlimited users 2. Great developer experience(local development, debugging, & Git sync is coming soon) 3. Pricing model will be usage based and not user based

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Post by Artistry121 »

foxbee wrote: post #20
navaneethpk wrote: post #2

Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

Wow! Building this in 7 weeks is an incredible feat. I am the cofounder of Budibase - an open source alt to Retool, Mendix, Outsystems - and have been building it for around 2 years now. It's an incredible space and solves a burning problem for engineers, IT teams and business users. We're seeing major benefits of being open source, with the like of the NHS, Amazon, Deloitte and other major orgs choosing Budibase ove…

Hey! I've been following Budibase too You're doing great too.

I want to do implementations for projects like this and trainings around it. There is so much power in these tools its amazing.

Can we talk too? andrew AT amescher.com

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Post by FractalHQ »

navaneethpk wrote: post #23
pplonski86 wrote: post #4

Congratulations on launch! Got a question. What do you think, is it possible to create internal tools as desktop apps that doesn't need servers/internet connection? I understand that your product is web based, so doesnt have such desktop-app feature. Can you recommend any no-code tool for building desktop based apps?

Budibase have a desktop app, not sure if the apps built can run without internet.

They just phased it out to focus on the browser version iirc

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Post by foxbee »

Artistry121 wrote: post #35
foxbee wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow! Building this in 7 weeks is an incredible feat. I am the cofounder of Budibase - an open source alt to Retool, Mendix, Outsystems - and have been building it for around 2 years now. It's an incredible space and solves a burning problem for engineers, IT teams and business users. We're seeing major benefits of being open source, with the like of the NHS, Amazon, Deloitte and other major orgs choosing Budibase ove…

Hey! I've been following Budibase too You're doing great too. I want to do implementations for projects like this and trainings around it. There is so much power in these tools its amazing. Can we talk too? andrew AT amescher.com

Hey - of course we can. I'll email you ASAP

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Post by foxbee »

navaneethpk wrote: post #22
foxbee wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow! Building this in 7 weeks is an incredible feat. I am the cofounder of Budibase - an open source alt to Retool, Mendix, Outsystems - and have been building it for around 2 years now. It's an incredible space and solves a burning problem for engineers, IT teams and business users. We're seeing major benefits of being open source, with the like of the NHS, Amazon, Deloitte and other major orgs choosing Budibase ove…

Thanks :) Sure, would love to talk. Please send me an email so that we can schedule a call. ( navaneeth@tooljet.io )

awesome. I'll ping you later

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Post by sdesol »

foxbee wrote: post #20
navaneethpk wrote: post #2

Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

Wow! Building this in 7 weeks is an incredible feat. I am the cofounder of Budibase - an open source alt to Retool, Mendix, Outsystems - and have been building it for around 2 years now. It's an incredible space and solves a burning problem for engineers, IT teams and business users. We're seeing major benefits of being open source, with the like of the NHS, Amazon, Deloitte and other major orgs choosing Budibase ove…

> Wow! Building this in 7 weeks is an incredible feat.

Here is an analysis of Tooljet development in the last 90 days

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?q=wind...

I also did one for budibase as well

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?q=wind...

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of GitSense

Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

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Post by swyx »

foxbee wrote: post #20
navaneethpk wrote: post #2

Founder here, ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data f…

Wow! Building this in 7 weeks is an incredible feat. I am the cofounder of Budibase - an open source alt to Retool, Mendix, Outsystems - and have been building it for around 2 years now. It's an incredible space and solves a burning problem for engineers, IT teams and business users. We're seeing major benefits of being open source, with the like of the NHS, Amazon, Deloitte and other major orgs choosing Budibase ove…

I have to say I was very impressed when I tried out Budibase and was able to create a CRUD app out of the box without looking at docs. You guys are easier to use than Retool — and self hostable/open source!!

i have no idea what it's like to work on this problem for 2 years but really looking forward to see what you become. the youtube updates are super helpful btw pls keep that up

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