The platform is open source, makes it incredibly easy to build internal tools, SSO is free, and its apps are responsive. Also, coding is optional (unlike other platforms listed in this thread)
I'd like to highlight Budibase's incredible cloud platform - it's now 100% the easiest and most intuitive way to build business apps and internal tools.
Appsmith just clicked for me. It just feels nicer to work with appsmith than retool, for example.
I don't think it is just the capabilities of the three tools, I guess they are comparable. Retool has been around for a while, gets a ton of praise, raised a lot of money too (I don't know these info about budibase). It is just that appsmith feels nicer to work with, even though the UI is quite similar to retool.
I know appsmith's support is very very good, I have no clue about the other two.
I am sorry I am not able to give you a concrete answer, beyond the vague I like it :( I guess there might be others who think appsmith sucks and retool rocks. It is one of those things where some people like some UI and the other people hate the same. Another example is clickup, I like the tool in general (I do have complaints) and I pay for it but there are lots of people who hate it.
As developers, we were burnt out building the same internal tools time and time again. So, we went looking for a low code platform and what we found, were closed source, expensive, low code platforms that were clunky and not very extensible.
We thought we could build a better low code platform that was enjoyable to use. And our first and easiest decision was making it open source.
It's written in nodejs and Svelte, and uses CouchDB. Happy to provide more technical info.
This looks incredible, thank you for helping create Budibase, gonna try it out when I can. Glad to see Svelte being used, really like how performant it is.
I've been using this for a day, and it's been surprisingly good. My only concern, is the grip of the Google ecosystem always seems to lure me back in.
I feel, for this Brave to truly win, they need to consider Auth, workplace tooling, and email. Attempt to match Google toe-to-toe and fight them as a platform/ecosystem, rather than a search engine.
For Budibase, we often hear enterprises talk about two reasons for their interest:
Cost of devs
Speed of delivery (leading to faster growth and operations)
That's kind of funny. Back in the early 00's I built a big perl "engine" for an internal LOB platform which roughly looked like your product. The business built their apps on it. But neither me or the business saw the value in the platform on its own. Big fail - perhaps I could have been the original Salesforce.com or something...
I’m really excited by Budibase but having some trouble getting up and running. Do y’all have any open work sessions for questions or demos? I found some on YouTube previously.
In 7 months, over 8,000 apps were created with Budibase. Many of these are either data based (admin panels on top of databases), or process based (approval apps).
Budibase is built for internal tools so the apps are behind a log in / portal.
I would like to add Budibase to this list.
The platform is open source, makes it incredibly easy to build internal tools, SSO is free, and its apps are responsive. Also, coding is optional (unlike other platforms listed in this thread)
Also, Budibase is currently free!