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Re: Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes

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Can I integrate with a third party API without spending a week understanding OAuth and front end development?

Yes, that should be easy. Here is the guide for using OAuth - https://docs.tooljet.com/docs/how-to/oauth2-authorization/ .

Does that only work for OAuth providers you've implemented, or can I use a third party provider? Specifically, can I relatively easily integrate with the Xero API? https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/overv...

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Yes, that should be easy. Here is the guide for using OAuth - https://docs.tooljet.com/docs/how-to/oauth2-authorization/ .

Does that only work for OAuth providers you've implemented, or can I use a third party provider? Specifically, can I relatively easily integrate with the Xero API? https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/overv...

It is a generic connector for OAuth. Since Xero supports OAuth 2.0, it should be a similar process to integrate. Feel free to ping us [hello@tooljet.com] if you run in to any issues.

Re: Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes

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I have not tried the product in depth but this comes from your website headline where it says “Turn scripts into .... “. But great to know you have inbuilt integrations now. Best of luck, may the best internal tooling platform wins.

If you do not know the product then maybe instead of saying that X is simpler/faster/better than Y it would be better/fairer to say "I don't know" or "from a look at their landing" ?

Maybe this should be settled Musk v Zuck style for the internal tooling crown?

On a more serious note how does this compare with Retool? I remember that doing the HN rounds in 2019 and it’s still going

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It's a bad practice always since the user can easily choose if he/she wants to open it in new tab by themselv but not the other way. For a user there is zero benefits in this practice

"The user" on a typical website does not know how to do this. For a user there is the benefit that they will not lose their presence on the website. Many users do not know how to navigate back. Of course, in times long gone a new window would appear, and the pattern made even more sense than with tabs. If you would have left out the word "always", I might have agreed that for this particular website and intended audi…

Right click, open in new tab? I’m surprised if most people don’t know this

Re: Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes

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If you do not know the product then maybe instead of saying that X is simpler/faster/better than Y it would be better/fairer to say "I don't know" or "from a look at their landing" ?

Maybe this should be settled Musk v Zuck style for the internal tooling crown? On a more serious note how does this compare with Retool? I remember that doing the HN rounds in 2019 and it’s still going

haha, not interested. Sometimes it is okay to bow out of an online conversation :) Retool and ToolJet are building in the same problem space of internal tooling. Primary difference is that ToolJet is open source. And btw, we launched in March 2021.

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Maybe this should be settled Musk v Zuck style for the internal tooling crown? On a more serious note how does this compare with Retool? I remember that doing the HN rounds in 2019 and it’s still going

haha, not interested. Sometimes it is okay to bow out of an online conversation :) Retool and ToolJet are building in the same problem space of internal tooling. Primary difference is that ToolJet is open source. And btw, we launched in March 2021.

Open source is nice. I actually find these types of tools useful in testing where you don’t have time to do a full automated suite but you need to compare data between systems

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"The user" on a typical website does not know how to do this. For a user there is the benefit that they will not lose their presence on the website. Many users do not know how to navigate back. Of course, in times long gone a new window would appear, and the pattern made even more sense than with tabs. If you would have left out the word "always", I might have agreed that for this particular website and intended audi…

Right click, open in new tab? I’m surprised if most people don’t know this

If with "most people" you mean people aged 12 to 30, possibly with some form of higher education, then I grant you your surprise.

However, most people are not very skilled when it comes to computers.

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