Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
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Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#2I use Retool extensively at work for internal tooling (A.K.A Backoffice). It's really good in that I don't have to think about it much. There seems to be a new open-source competitor popping up every month, which is great, but I really wish people would get behind one or two of them and make them much stronger contenders.
The comparisons listed (other than being OSS) are mostly superficial and in some cases already available in Retool, perhaps released since that was written.
A better benchmark to aim for would be https://www.palantir.com/platforms/foundry/ which is way more powerful.
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#3I use Retool extensively at work for internal tooling (A.K.A Backoffice). It's really good in that I don't have to think about it much. There seems to be a new open-source competitor popping up every month, which is great, but I really wish people would get behind one or two of them and make them much stronger contenders. The comparisons listed (other than being OSS) are mostly superficial and in some cases already a…
Foundry is a terrible comparison, if only for the fact that I still have no clue what it does after reading that page (something with analytics?)
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#4I use Retool extensively at work for internal tooling (A.K.A Backoffice). It's really good in that I don't have to think about it much. There seems to be a new open-source competitor popping up every month, which is great, but I really wish people would get behind one or two of them and make them much stronger contenders. The comparisons listed (other than being OSS) are mostly superficial and in some cases already a…
It's very hard to understand what Foundry actually is from the provided landing page. Would you be able to describe it? Is it like Retool, but with more data sources and blocks? Can you actually drag-n-drop new applications in it or it's customized by Palantir only?
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#5Congrats on the launch! The app builder looks amazing and seems indeed very inspired by Retool.
We are building a tool in the same space with Windmill, also open-source [1]. The goal is not to hijack this thread since I do not believe we are that competitive.
We focus on workflows and more backendy/complex logic by converting automatically Python, Typescript, Go, Bash into endpoints and workflow modules that you can run at scale on workers that are deployable on one's own infra. We are currently also finishing an UI builder [2] but because it is not our prime focus, it will always be a much simpler alternative to what you and Retool are building. Hence, I see a lot of potential for integrations/collaboration for users with need of UIs similar to retool while needing more complex logic than REST or raw database queries.
In any case, congrats, I have played with the tool and you guys did an amazing job.
[1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill [2]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/pull/886
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#6I use Retool extensively at work for internal tooling (A.K.A Backoffice). It's really good in that I don't have to think about it much. There seems to be a new open-source competitor popping up every month, which is great, but I really wish people would get behind one or two of them and make them much stronger contenders. The comparisons listed (other than being OSS) are mostly superficial and in some cases already a…
I'm an ex-palantir (left 3y ago, things might have changed) that worked on Foundry and building Windmill [1] which is an open-source framework that would actually be closer to Foundry except we do workflows and not data pipelines.
I do not think the comparison stands between Retool, or this tool and Foundry. There is indeed a sub-product in Foundry called 'Slate' which is an UI builder but it's a small part of Foundry. Foundry is mostly about data pipelines, to do spark transforms on large ETL, and then having lots of product on top of it to make it easy to make Spark work in an enterprise environment such as a UI builder (the slate mentioned above), a graph viewer of the ETL (monocle), a report builder, RBAC, a timeseries processor, data lineage, versioning of the code, a webeditor and so on.
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#7Congrats on the launch! The app builder looks amazing and seems indeed very inspired by Retool. We are building a tool in the same space with Windmill, also open-source [1]. The goal is not to hijack this thread since I do not believe we are that competitive. We focus on workflows and more backendy/complex logic by converting automatically Python, Typescript, Go, Bash into endpoints and workflow modules that you can…
Correct URL to windmill on GitHub
https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill
(Or @rubenfiszel could edit their post)
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#8Congrats on the launch! The app builder looks amazing and seems indeed very inspired by Retool. We are building a tool in the same space with Windmill, also open-source [1]. The goal is not to hijack this thread since I do not believe we are that competitive. We focus on workflows and more backendy/complex logic by converting automatically Python, Typescript, Go, Bash into endpoints and workflow modules that you can…
You missed an "l" with 1. https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/
Even for the simplest and my own sites, I usually typed it out in the browser and copy-paste. :-)
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#9Congrats on the launch! The app builder looks amazing and seems indeed very inspired by Retool. We are building a tool in the same space with Windmill, also open-source [1]. The goal is not to hijack this thread since I do not believe we are that competitive. We focus on workflows and more backendy/complex logic by converting automatically Python, Typescript, Go, Bash into endpoints and workflow modules that you can…
You missed an "l" with 1. https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/ Even for the simplest and my own sites, I usually typed it out in the browser and copy-paste. :-)
fixed, thanks :)
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#10I use Retool extensively at work for internal tooling (A.K.A Backoffice). It's really good in that I don't have to think about it much. There seems to be a new open-source competitor popping up every month, which is great, but I really wish people would get behind one or two of them and make them much stronger contenders. The comparisons listed (other than being OSS) are mostly superficial and in some cases already a…
Foundry is no match to either of these tools, but it's not open source. Thanks for sharing!