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Re:Launch HN: Refine (YC S23) – Open-Source Retool for Enter... by molsongolden on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @04:55PM (#37068269)
Ah, I hadn't tried the Refine demo and was going totally off of past Retool experiences where creating or modifying an app can mean just picking a UI component and adding SQL.

Refine does appear to require developer build-out and is more of quickstart framework.

Re:Launch HN: Refine (YC S23) – Open-Source Retool for Enter... by buremba on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:22PM (#37069733)
You can build low-code tools with Refine though. One of my side projects Jinjat (https://jinjat.com) uses Refine as the UI framework to render the data models that you have in your dbt project, as an example. Retool is an end-to-end tool whereas Refine focuses on the front-end and gives the flexibility in the backend for your business logic, which is often hard to scale out with Retool.