Some feedback is to work on update speeds. The docs mention 15/5 min updates, which is a shame especially working with gsheets.
Also - i looked at the pricing and its PER APP PER MONTH and also PER USERS (since u have to add 1000user packs). This can turn a simple corporate app into a $10K annual hosting bill.
One of the key things we've realised from our customers that they've got a lot more data that what sits in their Airtable or Google Sheets. They all also use numerous SaaS tools that master different parts of their organizations' data: things like Stripe, Hubspot, Xero, Quickbooks and many more. They also sometimes have a production SQL database that contains critical customer information.
So we've been focused on expanding our product so we can incorporate more of our customers data and will be adding new data connectors through this quarter: we're starting with SQL, Stripe and Intercom. We want to enable anyone to snap their data together across whichever systems its stored in, and then create the most productive interface for them on top of it.
1. How would you compare Stacker to Retool?
2. Would the data from Stripe/Intercom appear as just another sheet/table?
3. One thing I learned that, despite the promises of no code solution, a non-technical user would still not use them, because they lack the know-how to model their domain knowledge in a no code tool. Have you run into these users? How would you work with them?
1. Retool targets developers who want to build internal tools faster. Stacker is for business users who aren’t technical. The output might be similar but the audience is different.
2. Yes so the third party SaaS data we are bringing in will appear just like the data from your spreadsheet.
3. We’ve definitely found these users and the vast majority of our customers aren’t technical. We’ve simplified the creation of an app so once you finish onboarding you have a working app, from there it is tweaks to make it the app you need. This makes the process much more approachable for non technical users.
Maybe this time it'll stick.
P.S. Hey Colin, funny seeing you here :)
