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navaneethpk

613 karma · joined February 11, 2019

Building ToolJet.ai

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navaneethpk··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
Docusaurus - It's easy to customise and good enough even without customisations.
navaneethpk··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
Rswag looks cool, will try it out. There are tests for rails controllers and I have recently setup Cypress for component testing, will be focusing on tests the coming days.
navaneethpk··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
Budibase have a desktop app, not sure if the apps built can run without internet.
navaneethpk··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
Thanks :)

Sure, would love to talk. Please send me an email so that we can schedule a call. ( navaneeth@tooljet.io )

navaneethpk··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
Aplogies, please use this link: https://docs.tooljet.io/docs/deployment/architecture I recently changed the structure of documentation, probably forgot to change the url somewhere. Will fix it in a while.
navaneethpk··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
8-10 hours a day :) Using Tabler for builiding the user interface helped me speed up the development.
navaneethpk··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
There are many similar features such as: a) The ability to fetch & merge data from multiple data sources b) Widgets such as tables, charts & forms

The goal is to build more connectors and widgets while ignoring features that will not makes sense for majority of the users. Example of a feature that's intentionally left out (for now) is the schema browser for databases.

Also, thanks for pointing out the typo, fixed it :)

navaneethpk··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
Founder here,

ToolJet is a no-code platform for building & deploying custom internal tools. ToolJet is built using Ruby on Rails and ReactJS. ToolJet can connect to existing data sources of companies such as databases, Google sheets, API endpoints, external services, and more. ToolJet's drag and drop app builder can quickly create UI widgets such as tables, charts, forms, etc and connect these widgets with the data from data sources.

I have been dabbling with the idea of ToolJet for a while. but the real progress happened over the last 7 weeks while I was in quarantine. One of my family members tested positive for covid and then came to the state-mandated lockdown. Not being able to step out of my home has been particularly hard, but nevertheless gave birth to ToolJet.

I believe that the tools that require access to sensitive data should be self-hosted ( data never leaves the premises) and open-source ( modify the software to fit organization-specific requirements ).

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