Hi all, engineer @ Retool here.
Historically, Retool has been known as a fast way to build frontend UIs for your existing internal backends and APIs.
However, if you don’t already have a place to store your application data, you’d have to set that up elsewhere (AWS/Heroku) before you can leverage Retool’s UI builder—which introduces a lot of friction for you to get started building on Retool.
Because of this, we believe that a lot of internal tools aren’t built because there isn’t a fast way to store data for them. So today, we’re excited to announce the first product that lets you store and edit your app data inside retool: Retool Database. It is backed by the battle-tested PostgreSQL database and comes with an easy-to-use spreadsheet UI for managing its schema and data.
With Retool Database, you can:
- Create full stack apps in Retool in less than 2 minutes
- Build your internal tools on top of a SQL database right away, not Google Sheets
- Augment your production data with a secondary database that is used only for internal tools
Happy to answer any questions you may have!
