Ask HN: What low-code “dashboarding“ SaaS would you recommend in 2021?

#1

Post by timothep » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:11 AM UTC

I‘d like to aggregate the output of a few REST calls visually. What options do I have nowadays? Thanks!

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#2

Post by jph » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:27 AM UTC

Retool is great software and has a great team. (https://retool.com/)

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#3

Post by thingsilearned » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:34 AM UTC

We don't work with rest calls - just directly with databases and SQL, but do take a look at chartio.com! We aim to make it as fast and agile as possible to make and collaborate on charts and dashboards with your team.

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#4

Post by faeyanpiraat » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:45 AM UTC

jph wrote: post #2

Retool is great software and has a great team. ( https://retool.com/ )

Nice! It’s like SAP, but for sane people.

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#5

Post by tracer4201 » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:46 AM UTC

I personally used Redash in the past, and found it very easy to create dashboards and even customize our instance. Not sure how it’s evolved though since being bought out by Databricks.

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#6

Post by systemvoltage » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:47 AM UTC

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #4

jph wrote: post #2

Retool is great software and has a great team. ( https://retool.com/ )

Nice! It’s like SAP, but for sane people.

It is a platform lock-in. So one must have to do an ROI analysis whether it makes sense to go with such a deeply coupled tooling.

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#7

Post by Exuma » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:54 AM UTC

jph wrote: post #2

Retool is great software and has a great team. ( https://retool.com/ )

damn thats pretty cool

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#8

Post by dmje » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 7:59 AM UTC

It'll be an unpopular answer but.. Google Data Studio...?

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#9

Post by faeyanpiraat » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 8:00 AM UTC

systemvoltage wrote: post #6

faeyanpiraat wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice! It’s like SAP, but for sane people.

It is a platform lock-in. So one must have to do an ROI analysis whether it makes sense to go with such a deeply coupled tooling.

Or you could look at it as a tool for quick and easy prototyping.

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#10

Post by meredydd » Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 8:10 AM UTC

Take a look at https://anvil.works - it's not just "low code", it's a full web-dev platform so simple that you can build a dashboard with a few lines of Python - front end, back end and drag-n-drop design. (I'm a founder.)

The trouble with "low-code" is that you're stuck on rails - it's very easy to do a few things, but the moment you want something the creators didn't anticipate, prepare for a lot of pain.

Anvil is the opposite approach - it's a dev environment that happens to be simple enough to build a dashboard in minutes, but with a Real Damn Programming Language. It's basically Delphi for the web: It's got a drag-n-drop designer, Python in the browser and on the server, code editor with full-stack autocomplete, etc.

(And unlike "low-code" tools, the runtime engine is open source, so you're not locked in: https://github.com/anvil-works/anvil-runtime)