Retool Reviews

Buddy Reviews

1. firomero

   | Developer at Codechanic | about 3 years ago
   Buddy Rocks

   I have around two years when met buddy for my personal projects. I found it intuitive and great. I almost can set up pipelines with closed eyes. It helped me with development and learning. I recommend also startups and mature projects.

   🏁 Competitors: Jenkins

   👍 Pros:    Intuitive|Easy to use|Verbose|Great user experience

   👎 Cons:    A bit expensive
2. Jalib Hussain Khan

   | Software Engineer at All Resource Technologies | over 3 years ago
   Best there ever was

   Buddy works is the most awesome automating CI application, it lets you deploy sites at the best convenience. It also automatically detects the type of language your application uses and gives you the recommendation regarding the commands which should be executed

   🏁 Competitors: CircleCI, Codeship, Travis CI
3. Lucas Pereira

   | CTO at Tezus | over 3 years ago
   The best solution for continuous delivery

   I have a eCommerce company and the Buddy helps us to delivery all projects and maintain the our platform updated. The Buddy is easy to implements and easy to operate, definitively, the best solution

   🏁 Competitors: CircleCI, Travis CI

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use|Easy user interface|Easy integration|Fast|Database documentation|Tools integrations|Visual

   👎 Cons:    Higher base price

Retool mentions (89)

• The End of Airplane.dev

  I am building https://github.com/claceio/clace and https://retool.com/, allow automation of operational tasks through a web interface while also allowing fully custom web apps. Clace also works great for running simple web apps locally. Building and deploying a web app should be as easy and common for backend engineers as creating a CLI app is. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• FastUI: Build Better UIs Faster

  This seems to mainly be useful for spinning up quick and dirty internal tools. But for that use-case, isn't it easier to use something visual and established like Retool (https://retool.com/) or that generates nice react code, like MUI Toolpad (https://mui.com/toolpad/)? - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Internal tools often make bad startup ideas

  There are obvious counterexamples, like https://retool.com, which is a successful company with solid revenue and multi-B valuation. > software engineers — who are often influencers in a purchase decision — are strongly incentivized to build instead of buy Regardless of what software engineers would rather do, pressure from real users trumps pressure from internal users. This especially true in startups, whose... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• YC: Requests for Startups

  I submitted an application for w24 that fits in the "Developer tools inspired by existing internal tools" category but wasn't accepted. I suspect my pitch probably needed work, and I also haven't started building at all yet and submitted as a solo-founder which it seems has less chance of being accepted. Here's the pitch and some details, in case anyone else is interested in the idea: > Supportal uses AI to... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  ReTool — Low-code platform for building internal applications. Retool is highly hackable. If you can write it with JavaScript and an API, you can make it in Retool. The free tier allows up to five users per month, unlimited apps and API connections. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Buddy mentions (10)

• Most Useful CI/CD Tools for DevOps

  Buddy CI/CD is an automation platform designed to streamline and accelerate software development and deployment processes. By emphasizing simplicity and efficiency, Buddy offers an intuitive UI that allows teams to set up, monitor, and execute pipelines with minimal friction. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• We use GitHub Actions to build GitHub

  We switched to buddy.works[0] about a year ago and honestly it’s just been… smooth. The UI is just great, the wealth and breadth of options is ever increasing and all the basics like knowing what went wrong, restarting, debugging, duplicating etc just work as you’d expect. One of the few companies I can recommend. [0] https://buddy.works. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Learn to push an empty commit

  For continuous integration, we are using Buddy delivery pipelines which allow us to build, test and deploy applications on a single push to a specific git branch. It helps us to reduce the manual overhead of deploying code to the server and handle all the actions automatically. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Free for dev - list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)

  Buddy.works — A CI/CD with 5 free projects and 1 concurrent runs (120 executions/month). - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

• Hide & Seek Code: Part II

  That is when we found out about Buddy. Buddy is one of those easy DIY devops tools out there. Best part is the UI and how easy it is to create a deployment pipeline. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago