17 posts — Want to get started with some basic tutorials on a new or unfamiliar platform? Our easy tutorials will get you up-and-running quickly with straightforward ideas and features.
In this guide, we’ll break down the best automation platforms - who should use them, what they’re great at, and where they fall short. If you’re looking for a no-nonsense guide to the top tools worth considering - this is it.
Learn to set up automatic website downtime alerts with Zapier and Uptime.com. This guide shows how to monitor availability and send Slack or email alerts to keep your team informed.
This guide introduces you to Glide and shows you how to build a secure, user-friendly CRUD app with Google Sheets - and no code!
In this tutorial, we connect the Fillout API to Retool to display form responses directly from a Retool app.
In this tutorial, we introduce you to essentials of Notion so that you can build out a sophisticated CRM to store customer data.
In Make, you can build automations without using code. In this tutorial, we introduce you to the platform and use it to generate a Google Doc based on values in our Airtable database.
Airtable is a versatile solution for building CRMs. We'll show you how to build a fully customized CRM that connects customer data without any code.
We built an AI chatbot to quickly generate Plotly charts inside of Retool according to user prompts. Newsletter members can download the chatbot module TypeScript for free!
In this first part of the Plotly in Retool series, we’re going back to basics with the line/scatter chart and how to add more useful features like trend lines and annotations.
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Supabase is a great backend option for business software. In this tutorial, we use Supabase and Retool to build an order-tracking app in just a couple of hours.
Looking to level-up your Google Sheets data with a simple app? Using Retool you can build a useful CRUD in less than an hour, to increase functionality and keep your data more secure.
Airtable and Google Sheets are great no-code options for small datasets, but they have their limitations. We identify their main drawbacks and consider why a SQL database might be a better option.
In this tutorial we will walk you through some different possible CRUD layouts in Retool, what they are good for and not-so-good for, as well as give you our top tips and tricks to achieve best practice (and avoid worst practice) when it comes to layout.
Most Retool apps are based on some kind of CRUD interface, and we think that with form inputs, a little goes a long way in turning an unfriendly UI into an optimized, beautiful user experience. Here’s a couple of simple tips to help make this happen.
Hybiscus and Retool are a dream team, providing beautiful and dynamic PDF reports in a matter of minutes. In this tutorial, I’ll walk through how to sign up for Hybiscus, set up a Hybiscus Resource in Retool, connect it to an application and get started making some stunning, automated reports.
In the first instalment of Bold Tech’s UI sessions, we are tackling busy component enemy no.1: the button, to bring you some top tips for making better use of this powerful component, as well as some handy and innovative tricks to improve your UI even more.
Using Retool’s “Query JSON with SQL” query, we create a filter panel that streamlines the experience for the end user. We will focus on setting up a filter container with a bespoke UI to help your users sort and find data in tables more effectively and with fewer clicks.
