appsmith

Appsmith would work great! It’s an open source project with cloud hosting and self-hosting options. You can query any REST endpoint and use JS to aggregate the outputs to connect it to charts, tables or text components. Also use JS to change the query params when you use date or search filters. (I’m a founder). https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith www.appsmith.com

I recently evaluated a bunch and https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith covered our needs. For building internal tools seems like a great alternative.

Appsmith | Remote(India, Southeast Asia only) | Full-time Senior Frontend engineer, Senior Backend engineer. Appsmith is an open source low code project to build custom admin panels, and internal tools. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith Our project includes complex frontend and backend features that are fun to work on because you are building for other developers. We are a 6 member engineering team and work with React.js, Typescript, Java. Write to me on abhishek@appsmith.com or see detailed JD on AngelList: https://angel.co/company/appsmith/jobs

IMHO, yes. So does Microsoft Excel, Airtable, n8n and AppSmith (https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith)

What are the differences between Appsmith and Retool? - Multi page apps. We focus on allowing you to create multi page apps that are performant and don't force this by making you create a folder or use nested tabs - Focused on building a pro-developer experience. Our goal is to make Appsmith closer to an IDE, which is reflected in our UI today. Soon you'll find a debugger and a code editor that will allow you to write code in a comfortable environment instead of small boxes spread out around the application. - Complex workflows. For example instead of triggering what happens after API1 in an API, in appsmith you can configure this when the API is called in the widget. So when you click a button you can say {{ Input1.value === "" ? API1.run() ; API2.run() }} We are actively building more integrations and features. Our current roadmap is h

We felt the same way about Retool and that's why we built Appsmith. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith Our project has similar goals like Retool, Powerapps or other low code builders for internal tools, but we are building an open ecosystem instead of a closed one. How close is this project to Retool? We have all the major features already so you won't miss much but we don't have all the UI widgets and native integrations yet. We'll probably reach feature parity in ~6 months.

That's exactly why we built appsmith. A company's core tech stack should be built on open source technology so you're never held hostage by proprietary software. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

This is an incredible amount of work for personal tools! Do you ever miss features from traditional note apps, CRM, and web page builders? Does tool maintenance get in the way of your work? I do agree with your argument about building tools to fit your workflows. Low code and no code tools will bring down the cost of custom tools dramatically. Companies don't update their tools enough because people hate changing their workflows. I've worked with customer support teams and change in workflows is a big reason why they don't want to buy a 'better' SAAS tool. They'll lose productivity in short-term with a new product that's different. (shameless plug-I started an open source project to let companies build their own self-hosted tools and workflows. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith)

Check out Appsmith https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith (I'm a co-founder). It's an open source low code product to build internal tools. The UI is flexible and we ship with charting, data grids, & forms. You can connect these to MySQL, Mongo or Postgres instances. There's an editor for writing queries and view responses. Any logic can be written in JS.

Since you mentioned tools for developers, we are building a project for developers called Appsmith. https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith. It's a low code product to build internal tools. You can connect UI components to APIs or DBs. Any logic can be written in JS.

Founder of a competing product here. We've built an open source project so that you can self-host and we have role based access. Would love to know what you think! You can see the project here: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith