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Re: Hello, Dynaboard

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Post by JediPig »

ziggus wrote: post #16
nhance wrote: post #10

Why would someone choose this over Microsoft's Power Platform or Salesforce's platform? Interesting tool, but it seems like it doesn't have a clear audience in mind. The end user seems to be "everybody" and that's a hard sale to make.

It's not only unclear at first glance who the audience is, but what the tool actually does. It seems like some kind of no-code tool at first, but then it mentions pair programming? I'm confused, and don't want to wade through a swamp of marketing text.

Same thought here.

Why would a person use this over salesforce, Wordpress, or the dozen other CMS systems out there? I watched the 5 minute demo, it is doing nothing complex. How many one off sites we all seen that are written by a tool that ended up not able to handle the complexity. Tools like this need a huge "never" been done before hook, and this one does not readily have it.

Re: Hello, Dynaboard

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Post by pbronez »

speedgoose wrote: post #18

It sounds very interesting and I hope you will be successful. How realistic hosting on-premise / in a private cloud without breaking the bank is? The price is "contact us" right now. I sometimes need to develop applications where privacy and GDPR is critical. The current pricing per developer/user is not announced and I see that as a risk for me. I have been priced out of Retool, they wanted more money than two good…

Yup. Critical stuff I always look for is (1) can I self-host it? (2) what’s my off-ramp if they 10x the price or go out of business?

Re: Hello, Dynaboard

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Post by vgel »

Nitpick: the font on the landing page is really weird (Linux Chrome) -- the baselines of the letters don't line up, giving it a really strange appearance.

Re: Hello, Dynaboard

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Post by alexkern »

speedgoose wrote: post #18

It sounds very interesting and I hope you will be successful. How realistic hosting on-premise / in a private cloud without breaking the bank is? The price is "contact us" right now. I sometimes need to develop applications where privacy and GDPR is critical. The current pricing per developer/user is not announced and I see that as a risk for me. I have been priced out of Retool, they wanted more money than two good…

Thanks for the kind words!

We will not be pricing per developer or per user, but rather usage-based. We aim to be affordable for applications at scale, because we believe the cost of an internal app should not increase linearly with your headcount.

We’ve designed the system for a few deployment configurations, with independent single-tenant and multi-tenant support on the control plane and data plane. The goal is flexible on-prem deployments that balance customer convenience with regulatory / privacy requirements. At the moment though, we’re focused on our multi-tenant cloud environment and making that as top-notch as possible.

You’ll also be able to eject your app out of Dynaboard. The code is yours, we aim to have the best editor available and convenient serverless hosting so that’s why you’ll stick with us.

Re: Hello, Dynaboard

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Post by swimmadude66 »

vgel wrote: post #23

Nitpick: the font on the landing page is really weird (Linux Chrome) -- the baselines of the letters don't line up, giving it a really strange appearance.

Hey, do you have any more info about your distro/chrome version? I am running PopOS 21.10 with chrome 96.0.4664.93 and everything looks normal here. We are working with the designers to fix the ResizeObserver issue, but can't seem to recreate this one.

Thanks!

Re: Hello, Dynaboard

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Post by dvdhsu »

speedgoose wrote: post #18

It sounds very interesting and I hope you will be successful. How realistic hosting on-premise / in a private cloud without breaking the bank is? The price is "contact us" right now. I sometimes need to develop applications where privacy and GDPR is critical. The current pricing per developer/user is not announced and I see that as a risk for me. I have been priced out of Retool, they wanted more money than two good…

Hi speedgoose; I'm founder @ Retool. I'm sorry you were priced out of Retool; we don't want anybody to be that way. We're trying a few pricing experiments now (including self-serve on-prem, not billing per-user, etc.). I tried shooting you an email to a) fix the issue, and b) gather some feedback, but I don't think you have an email listed. Do you mind reaching out to me at david AT retool? Thanks!
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