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Show HN: Retool Portals and Retool Embed

by antonybello on 7/13/23, 4:26 PM with 14 comments

  • by antonybello on 7/13/23, 4:31 PM

    Antony here, PM at Retool. We’re really excited to share how you can quickly build portals and business software for your customers, partners, and vendors.

    We started Retool to help developers build internal tools faster—and along the way noticed that a lot of the same frustrations with complexity, costs, and data risks applied to building software for external users too. Developers are often forced to build from the ground up: setting up a database from scratch, integrating multiple APIs, configuring the latest Webpack release and making it work in CI, fiddling with CSS to get components to fit company branding, and then managing auth, SSO, permissions, scaling, performance—the list goes on.

    So, we’re introducing two new products. Retool Portals is great if you want whitelabel Retool and have it manage login, signup, and user management; Retool Embed makes sense if you want to augment an existing portal with the functionality you build in Retool.

    I’d love your feedback on how to make these even better. Also happy to answer any questions.

  • by ezekg on 7/14/23, 2:25 AM

    Yes! I've been waiting for this for years! -- or rather, my customers have. Super stoked for Portals, and to see Retool move outside of the internal tooling niche. Looking perfect for small, customer-facing licensing portals.

  • by kwanbix on 7/13/23, 8:50 PM

    How good is scalabiliy? If I build a tool that processes 10 million orders a day, will it scale?

  • by ITguyinNY on 7/14/23, 8:34 AM

    Really cool!

    Retool embed reminds me a bit of Matterway in spirit. But also a bit like Pixiebrix.

  • by rattray on 7/13/23, 6:48 PM

    This seems like a big deal?

  • by Viaaaron on 7/13/23, 9:59 PM

    HUGE! Have a project right now that this will really impact.