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Re: Form to DB

#11

Post by no_wizard »

cuffe wrote: post #7

Hi all, engineer who worked on forms @ Retool here. Excited to get HN’s feedback on a new product I’ve been working on: Retool Forms. There are a ton of form builders out there (e.g. Typeform, Google Forms, Airtable Forms, etc.) and honestly we weren’t really looking to build another one. But as a developer, I wanted my data in my database, not in another SaaS app (which probably has a shoddy API, like every example…

When you say on the website that Amazon uses this product, is Amazon a paying customer or is it simply an engineer (or a few I suppose) are using it?

I’m curious how to interpret the “trusted by” statement here

Re: Form to DB

#14

Post by nextworddev »

As a side note I found retool to be the most prohibitively expensive out of 6-7 solutions I was researching for “low code admin app builder” ecosystem.

Re: Form to DB

#15

Post by quickthrower2 »

mrcwinn wrote: post #10
cuffe wrote: post #7

Hi all, engineer who worked on forms @ Retool here. Excited to get HN’s feedback on a new product I’ve been working on: Retool Forms. There are a ton of form builders out there (e.g. Typeform, Google Forms, Airtable Forms, etc.) and honestly we weren’t really looking to build another one. But as a developer, I wanted my data in my database, not in another SaaS app (which probably has a shoddy API, like every example…

So, you didn’t feel comfortable relying on “another SaaS” app, and then go on to suggest Retool Workflows, which is itself part of another paid SaaS app? All those “shoddy” alternatives also have free tiers.

Not sure that is fair? The difference seems to be the data is squarely in your own DB. You can use their SaaS for validation. You might pay for something (surprise?).

Re: Form to DB

#17

Post by dvdhsu »

no_wizard wrote: post #11
cuffe wrote: post #7

Hi all, engineer who worked on forms @ Retool here. Excited to get HN’s feedback on a new product I’ve been working on: Retool Forms. There are a ton of form builders out there (e.g. Typeform, Google Forms, Airtable Forms, etc.) and honestly we weren’t really looking to build another one. But as a developer, I wanted my data in my database, not in another SaaS app (which probably has a shoddy API, like every example…

When you say on the website that Amazon uses this product, is Amazon a paying customer or is it simply an engineer (or a few I suppose) are using it? I’m curious how to interpret the “trusted by” statement here

Amazon pays us more than $1M annually. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426191

Re: Form to DB

#18

Post by Borealid »

I remember Microsoft InfoPath, for which this appears to be a competitor.

I never really understood why InfoPath didn't catch on better.

Re: Form to DB

#19

Post by kinj28 »

nextworddev wrote: post #14

As a side note I found retool to be the most prohibitively expensive out of 6-7 solutions I was researching for “low code admin app builder” ecosystem.

Curious - what was your use case for low code tool? Just build a single admin tool for a few users or something more elaborate.

FWIW I run growth for a low code platform company and we are one of the retool alternatives. One of the things I am trying to get right is getting the value proposition right for different scenarios like say building a customer portal (unlimited external users) to admin tools (few internal users). So far we have been able to do good on this front by helping customers with usage based pricing or even developer based pricing. But yet curious to hear your use case and see if there is something I am missing.

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