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Re:Open source alternative to Retool: Appsmith by arey_abhishek on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:07PM (#24840528)
Hi HN! Excited to post about Appsmith. We built Appsmith because every company spends too much time building custom internal tools even though engineers don't like working on it.

There are a lot of low code products in the market, but none of them are open source. We believe an internal tool builder like Appsmith is part of you core tech stack and thus should be open source.

Re:Open source alternative to Retool: Appsmith by randtrain34 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:53PM (#24841692)
Can you elaborate on the differences between Appsmith and Retool from a feature standpoint?
Re:Open source alternative to Retool: Appsmith by arey_abhishek on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:01PM (#24841783)
hi! There are a few differences today:

1. You can make multi-page apps 2. You can create workflows by chaining events 3. Much better debugging features for datasources

More features are on their way. :)

Re:Open source alternative to Retool: Appsmith by js4ever on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:02PM (#24841792)
Congrats it seems amazing, I will definitely try it soon :)
Re:Open source alternative to Retool: Appsmith by arey_abhishek on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:19PM (#24841954)
thank you!