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Re: Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool

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Congrats! Contributing to an open-source ecosystem with alternative tools is a great approach. Having a built-in support for other open source tools is the best practice ever.I hope you guys will grow rapidly. We are running an open-source project too. It’s a React-based headless framework for building CRUD apps. As being an open source project, we would like to get feedbacks:) Repo: https://github.com/refinedev/refi…

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Re: Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool

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I count at least a dozen open-source alternatives to @Retool and they are all growing nicely. Feels like devs don't like to be trapped!

Also feels like an enormous waste to me. Imagine all these devs combining efforts in one great OSS iso multiple small alternatives that all just miss the required list of features by a bit forcing me to stay at retool.

Re: Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool

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I like open source projects but what I don't like if someone else's ideas are just copied. The interface looks almost like a 1:1 copy of retool.

It’s a great interface. I’m sure Retool can compete on something more salient than their interface.

Re: Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool

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Do you have a way to turn off your automatic telemetry? It seems like one of the first things the UI does is send a bunch of info back to Sentry.

It also appears that the email verification works by passing the email straight on to one of your servers, instead of my own SMTP setup, which is promptly blocked by my spamfilter.

EDIT: Limit on the password of 20 characters? It's hashed anyway right, who cares?

More Edit: I'm trying to add a data source, and even though I'm self-hosting it's displaying:

> Credentials will be encrypted & stored securely on our servers. Connect Type Cloud: ILLA servers will securely connect to your database.

I'm going to stop testing now, since I have no desire for my database credentials to be floating around on your cloud like my email already is.

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