Show HN: Retool Mobile

Today, we’re excited to get HN’s thoughts on one of our new products: Retool Mobile. It lets you build and deploy mobile apps in minutes, not days. The idea is there is a large class of line-of-business mobile apps, and the process of getting a simple form + button on a mobile device, in a native app, to POST back to an API endpoint, is startlingly difficult. (As a web developer myself, it has for a while been shocking how hard it is to build and ship something useful onto the app store.)

For us, it was important that we build a native mobile app. That’s because although the web as a platform has come a long way, we think Apple / Google are — to some extent — anti-web, in the sense that they hamstring web developers in an attempt to get more apps on their app stores. With a native app, we were able to ship a brand new set of mobile-specific components, drive substantially more performance, and frankly — deliver much more delight.

The team is currently hard at work on white labeling, offline apps, and push notifications. We expect to ship all that in the next few months.

If you have any feedback on the product, please do comment in this thread! HN is a particularly valuable source of product feedback for us, and the team is very eager to please HN readers. (Since if we can do that, we can surely please any developer, hah!)

Show HN: Retool Mobile
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I legit think with your new workflows you are gonna kill the non open-source competition (Airplane, Superblocks) and now the question remains if being an open-source alternative is strong enough of a differentiation for the rest of us. Our case is slightly different as we bet on our open runtime and advanced workflows to serve different enterprise needs but needless to say, I wish you guys were not so good.

[1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

Curious if Retool got explicit permission to do this.

[1] https://blog.expo.dev/upcoming-limitations-to-ios-expo-clien...

joe at budibase dot com is my email if you want to reach out.

Other than that, our pricing is listed here: budibase.com/pricing/

- We'll see more and more features behind a paywall?

We'll continue to add features to the free/OSS tiers and the paid tiers. For example, we plan to release auditing in the next 2/3 months - that will be a paid feature. Our free/OSS tier is generous and provides a lot of value (SSO is in the free tier) - we plan to keep it this way.