Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
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Re: Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
#2I tried to like what I originally saw when trying out ToolJet and loved how easy it was to setup, (docker with postgres) but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization.
The biggest one would be that I would setup a query for a component and then I would come back to it later, usually after some kind of page refresh and the query would just not appear in the editor anymore. Sometimes I'd refresh it again and it would appear again, but it was just way too flaky to be considered for any kind of commitment to building tooling with it.
And there's no chance in hell that non-technical internal would be able to build anything useful with it; but to be fair, I tried other tools and they weren't that impressive either even if they were less buggy. The entire "low code" thing just feels like hype as soon as you need to do anything non-trivial like read data from a large table with multiple joins and need to implement server-side pagination, for example. I'm just more productive writing Rails templates using basic MVC with Rails Admin.
Re: Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
#3I tried to like what I originally saw when trying out ToolJet and loved how easy it was to setup, (docker with postgres) but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization. The biggest one would be that I would setup a query for a component and then I would come back to it later, usually after some kind of page refresh and the query would just not appear in the editor anymore. Sometimes I'd refre…
>but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization.
Was this recently or a few months ago? majority of the reported bugs were fixed before the launch of v1.0 (Feb 2021 ).
Re: Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
#4I tried to like what I originally saw when trying out ToolJet and loved how easy it was to setup, (docker with postgres) but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization. The biggest one would be that I would setup a query for a component and then I would come back to it later, usually after some kind of page refresh and the query would just not appear in the editor anymore. Sometimes I'd refre…
What other tools did you try?
Re: Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
#5shameless plug: I am building a similar tool that is less focused on UI (which get autogenerated from reading your script parameters) that will be similarly open-sourced under AGPL3 in a few weeks (Need to clean the code and add typescript support):
Re: Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
#6I tried to like what I originally saw when trying out ToolJet and loved how easy it was to setup, (docker with postgres) but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization. The biggest one would be that I would setup a query for a component and then I would come back to it later, usually after some kind of page refresh and the query would just not appear in the editor anymore. Sometimes I'd refre…
What other tools did you try?
I tried retool, tooljet and appsmith.
Re: Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
#7I tried to like what I originally saw when trying out ToolJet and loved how easy it was to setup, (docker with postgres) but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization. The biggest one would be that I would setup a query for a component and then I would come back to it later, usually after some kind of page refresh and the query would just not appear in the editor anymore. Sometimes I'd refre…
>but encountered way too many bugs to make it usable in our organization. Was this recently or a few months ago? majority of the reported bugs were fixed before the launch of v1.0 (Feb 2021 ).
Within the last few months, I believe it was version 1.6 or 1.8.
Re: Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
What other tools did you try?
I tried retool, tooljet and appsmith.
Ahhh.You should try Budibase if you have time. I'm the cofounder.
It's open source and a little different than the other options you've mentioned. Below is the repo:
https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
Website: https://budibase.com
Re: Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What other tools did you try?
I tried retool, tooljet and appsmith.
I’m also going to jump in here and say try Lowdefy https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy - co-founder here.
We take a different angle and believe that low code should still work like code. We focus on a developer first approach.
Re: Show HN: ToolJet 1.11 OSS Retool alternative with realtime multiplayer editing
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried retool, tooljet and appsmith.
Ahhh.You should try Budibase if you have time. I'm the cofounder. It's open source and a little different than the other options you've mentioned. Below is the repo: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase Website: https://budibase.com
Took a look at the website -- why do you have a page which pretends to objectively review competitors and then decides that your project is the best app development tool without acknowledging the obvious conflict of interest?