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by anonu 2067 days ago
Wow - really cool & congrats...

Sort of reminds me of a handful of RegBI tools - like Periscope Data. But the marketing/positioning is "this is for internal teams". I suppose another important difference here is that you can write to the database from the interface. The API out-of-the-box is pretty neat too.

I gave it a quick spin after watching the demo. Large tables take a while to refresh. I dont know if thats just extra load on the servers after the announcement. I would imagine getting latency down, especially for queries with many columns or rows, would be important to UX.

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Thank you — seriously — for trying Retool! You're correct on the difference — Retool supports writing back to databases and APIs, which is fairly different from most BI tools.

On the latency part — yes! We are currently working on scaling our systems and latency is a bit higher than usual right now. If this is something anybody is interested in working on, please ping me! :)