Re:Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster
by metabren on Thursday August 09, 2018 @06:20PM
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David this looks fantastic. I can’t wait to play with it.
Just on the GDPR front, our DB also has customer data. We currently host on heroku. Does the data we pull in / process using retool go anywhere else except for where we point it?
Re:Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster
by dvdhsu on Thursday August 09, 2018 @08:43PM
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No, your data never goes anywhere. You can deploy Retool and airgap it to prevent all inbound / outbound network connections. Then you can connect to it via a VPN.
I will reach out over email - thanks for the question!
Re:Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster
by danpalmer on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:34PM
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Nice!
For the Slack bots, a fairly common thing we want to do is regular business updates from either Google spreadsheets (that are very dynamic/scripted) or from ChartIO. Some basic interactivity with those bots would be handy.
2. You can install Retool in your EC2 instance, and block all inbound / outbound network traffic. I'll send you an email about it!
3. Yes - we can! Curious to hear about your use case though - is it for BI?
4. We integrate with Google, Okta or any SAML 2.0 provider. Would that work for you guys?
5. Any! Yep - we handle authentication in the API query itself, or you can create an API with authentication stored server-side. Here are docs on generic APIs: https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/apis, and here are docs on GraphQL: https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/graphql
WRT cookies specifically - even though requests from the browser get proxied through our backend we support forwarding authentication cookies to the browser that is tied to the user's specific session in Retool. (I thought we had written docs for this but can't find them now. Ping me @ [email protected] and I can tell you how we do it!)