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I know this is petty, but, if you mess with history and make it impossible for me to back out of your web page (by clicking the back button), I will immediately assume you are a untrustworthy company, and I will never return later to make an account.
I hate this practice, it's rude, it shows contempt for your users (in this case future-users), and its one of the many dark UI patterns that is ruining the modern web.
Please don't do it.
Hey, fast-try/illacloud, I know this is petty, but, if you mess with history and make it impossible for me to back out of your web page (by clicking the back button), I will immediately assume you are a untrustworthy company, and I will never return later to make an account. I hate this practice, it's rude, it shows contempt for your users (in this case future-users), and its one of the many dark UI patterns that is…
I've been curious why so many of these low-code dev tools target enterprise/business with internal apps. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks!
A comment by the OP is dead. This is unfortunate since readers should have a chance to question the OP, who seems to be associated with the project. Maybe the mods could fix this?
thx much appreciated！
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.
The real devils is in authorization and computed fields. For CRUD, a generator can do it for developers.
May you elaborate?
Computed fields require different treatment at every level of the stack. This isn't inherently hard, but it is an extra feature these low-code/no-code platforms need. Where things get difficult is in migrations. It's common for a field that is computed at the beginning to become customizable, or for the computation to change. When that happens, what should the value be for old columns? Computed fields also often pull data from multiple other tables, which may require some combination of custom queries and database optimization.
The real devils is in authorization and computed fields. For CRUD, a generator can do it for developers.
May you elaborate?
When we create a new order line, the tax, remainaining inventory for item must be dynamically computed before submitted and also to display after successfully saving.
What does Show HN posts don't begin describing what the tool does? Indeed Illa's README doesn't clearly state what it does!
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.
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.