Kevin William David

Retool Workflows - Visual workflow automation, now with code

Retool Workflows is a fast way for developers to create cron jobs, custom alerts, and ETL tasks. Stop provisioning infrastructure and maintaining one-off scripts—focus on the code that matters.Topics: Developer Tools, APIs, SaaS

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Łukasz Warchoł
Awesome idea, congrats on the launch! :-)
Dmitriy
@lukasz_warchol thanks! excited to hear your feedback!
Rohan Meher
Nice Product , Congrats on the launch team @cuffejamie
Jamie Cuffe
Thanks @rohan_meher1 - let us know if you have any feedback!
Šimon Kristín
Finally something handy for developers, thanks!
Jamie Cuffe
Thanks @simon_kristin - we'd love to hear your feedback once you've given it a try!
I see myself using this. However, unsure if the demo highlights the best of practices.. It starts by selecting all from a database and then uses a separate javascript module to filter by date. It would be a lot more economical to filter by date in the Query and just return what you need in the list. Or am I failing to see the need for that extra step? 🧐 I do find the views very readable and easy for me to work with. I am currently using n8n.io and I'm wondering how you differentiate yourself and why should someone use Retoll vs n8n?
Jamie Cuffe
@florin_biro Great question! The goal here was to show that you can use whatever you're most comfortable with JS or SQL. But yes I prefer SQL so would mostly just add a where clause and do it in that initial query. My understanding is that n8n is focused on being an open-source Zapier alternative that empowers business users to build automations. We build Workflows for developers and see it more as an alternative to writing cron jobs from scratch. The product really focuses on code when you need it, GUI when you don't. Would love to get your feedback on Retool vs n8n when you try it out?
@cuffejamie thanks for the explanation! I'll definitely give it a try and talk about your launch on SaaS Addicts live stream next Monday. I like what Retool is doing and have been talking about your previous launches.
Jamie Cuffe
@florin_biro Awesome thanks! Happy to chat more / help out with the live stream - feel free to email me at jamie@retool.com
Olha Kurinna
Looks like a huge time-saver for devs🌟Congrats on the launch 🎉
Sid Puri
@olha_kurinna thank you!
Jamie Cuffe
Thanks @olha_kurinna - we'd love to hear your feedback once you've given it a try!
Kelsea Zhang
Congratulation!
Jamie Cuffe
Thanks @kelsea_zhang !
Fanni Csincsák
I love this!
Jamie Cuffe
@fannicsincsak Thanks, let us know if you have any feedback when you've given it a try!
Russel Melroy
Amazing Product🎉
Jamie Cuffe
@russel_aviyel Thanks, let us know if you have any feedback!
Viren Mohindra
It was challenging convincing the engineering team to switch to Retool for our internal dashboard, and this is just another push in the right direction. We've always had a convoluted scraping set up and this should hopefully ease the transition :-)
Dmitriy
@virenmohindra Thanks Viren - hopefully having everything live in the same ecosystem and avoiding tool sprawl will help make the case. Would love to partner with you to help build some of the scraping in Workflows!
Jamie Cuffe
Thanks @virenmohindra ! Would love to learn more about your scraping use case?
Bengisu Yazıcılar
This looks fantastic!
Jamie Cuffe
@bengisu_yazicilar Thanks, let us know if you have any feedback when you've given it a try!