https://github.com/openblocks-dev/openblocks/blob/1c5846d049...
Disappointing to see Firefox flagged as a "Not supported browser".
Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
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#12Is it stable? I really want to ditch appsmith, tried ToolJet but didn't hook me. Yours look promising, i hope you continue the development of it.
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#13I 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 Foundr…
I've not used Foundry myself but I've been given a demo of it fully implemented at a company.
I agree that the Retool comparison is only a small part of what Foundry offers, and that's my point, I don't know of any open source alternative that comes close to Foundry. They overlap in the sense that they are both tools that can be used as the back-office / operating system of a business, to varying degrees.
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#14https://github.com/openblocks-dev/openblocks/blob/1c5846d049... Disappointing to see Firefox flagged as a "Not supported browser".
I tried quickly the app builder with Firefox and it seemed to mostly work fine. I would bet it's just that the devs use chrome and didn't have time to test extensively all their advanced features on all browsers.
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#15I 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…
@vladsanchez, @sevazhidkov, @Aeolun
I agree, the website is terrible at explaining what it is, I only got it by seeing it fully implemented in a business. It's too broad to describe here but this might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-GSj-Exms
Re: Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool
#16pricing for the cloud version?
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#17https://github.com/openblocks-dev/openblocks/blob/1c5846d049... Disappointing to see Firefox flagged as a "Not supported browser".
I tried quickly the app builder with Firefox and it seemed to mostly work fine. I would bet it's just that the devs use chrome and didn't have time to test extensively all their advanced features on all browsers.
What advanced features would be supported by a 3 year old Safari, a 4 year old Chrome, but not by Firefox?
It's a kind of laziness that does the open web great harm by putting unnecessary barriers in front of Firefox users when they shouldn't be there.
Feature detection for any newer APIs is far better. If you know you rely on a particular API set then you can test for precisely that.
Otherwise let browsers be instead of putting banners up recommending "best in IE". It just harms the web.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 Foundr…
I've not used Foundry myself but I've been given a demo of it fully implemented at a company. I agree that the Retool comparison is only a small part of what Foundry offers, and that's my point, I don't know of any open source alternative that comes close to Foundry. They overlap in the sense that they are both tools that can be used as the back-office / operating system of a business, to varying degrees.
It's an interesting discussion. I of course agree with the sentiment and am convinced of the need for an open-source "operating systems" for enterprise and that's where we draw our inspiration from. However there is a big risk of both bloat and doing everything but not very well.
Foundry relies on Spark to do the actual ETL so they can focus on doing the products on top, the most interesting one is the integration with data lineage imho. But in practice, many business did not actually need big data since most of their ETL could run on top of a few non sharded sql queries on postgres. On the other hand, if you care about ETL there are a few amazing competing tools, dbt, airbyte, snowflake, the databricks platform and so on. And last, not being open-source is in my opinion a big risk for a large enterprises to bet and implement all their internal processes and golden tables on (or "ontologies" as palantir love saying). Even though Palantir would love to be product-led growth, their moat is strongly in their forward deployed engineer, half-consultant, half-software engineers that can push Foundry in big old-school companies and governments.
There is space for a new wave of less bloated, open-source tools and I for one am pretty excited about the new players in the field.
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#19https://github.com/openblocks-dev/openblocks/blob/1c5846d049... Disappointing to see Firefox flagged as a "Not supported browser".
It's opensource. Build it, test it, send any fixes necessary, add a few CI tests to verify it keeps working, and then add it to the supported list.