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

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Post by smallSohoSolo »

Aeolun wrote: post #30

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:…

Hey Aeolun, thank you for your testing! This is the co-founder of ILLA. The automatic telemetry issue was caused by not deploying ILLA builder from CLI. For the email verification issue, we will support customized SMTP very soon to ensure our users have 100% control of their data. We will change our password limitation to 30 characters so that our users will have more flexibility. The most important thing is that showing the message"Credentials will be encrypted & stored securely on our servers. Connect Type Cloud: ILLA servers will securely connect to your database" is a bug. If you deploy it locally, your data will not transfer to our server. We will fix it asap and update a version tmr. I will keep you updated once we have the bug fixed.

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

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Post by smallSohoSolo »

Aeolun wrote: post #28

I'm not a fan of using a cli to boot a docker image. I found out that it's possible to find the base docker-compose images with a bit of searching, but it'd be nicer if the documentation links to them directly.

If you are not into CLI, you can try this repo out: https://github.com/illacloud/deploy-illa-manually

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

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Post by vicsomething »

ajb wrote: post #34
vicsomething wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thx much appreciated！

No worries. A hint about why your comments (most likely) got flagged on the other thread: you pointed at your own competing tool, without disclosing that you develop it, and also without giving any reason to check it out. This space is friendly to people starting new things, so it will actually work better to be upfront and say its yours. People will appreciate the chance to get information from you directly, since o…

thx for elaborating the rules! I will notice this in the coming posting.

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

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Post by smallSohoSolo »

sambeau wrote: post #31

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…

This is a bug. Our team is fixing it. We will let you know once it's done. Sorry for your bad experience

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

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Post by josephcsible »

I_am_tiberius wrote: post #24

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.

Do you dislike ReactOS too, since it looks so similar to Windows? If not, what's the difference?

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

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Post by swznd »

smallSohoSolo wrote: post #51
Aeolun wrote: post #30

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:…

Hey Aeolun, thank you for your testing! This is the co-founder of ILLA. The automatic telemetry issue was caused by not deploying ILLA builder from CLI. For the email verification issue, we will support customized SMTP very soon to ensure our users have 100% control of their data. We will change our password limitation to 30 characters so that our users will have more flexibility. The most important thing is that sho…

what the purpose of limiting the password characters anyway ?

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

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Post by la64710 »

IMHO developers who publish their software as open source but actually making it difficult to use their open source version , is doing them a disservice , because the first user experience itself is that of a feeling of deceit and is less than ideal. For example this one says there are docker components available for self hosting but it is clear the developers did not put as much heart into the open source version as they have done with their hosted or commercial version. It is simply better to be upfront about it.

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

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Post by edmundsauto »

Hey, some quick feedback from trying the demo. It feels like you're trying to generate sales leads for the cloud service by making me create an account just to try it. I'm not super familiar with the competition, so maybe your market is focused on people looking for alternatives, but having to register for an account just to see the demo was more than I was willing to go through. The kicker for me was when the opt-in to getting email updates was checked while creating a demo account.

Also, you may want to increase the verification code timeout value - 60s is too short for emails to get through.

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