Build custom apps for customers and partners 10x faster
Build secure portals for customers, partners, and vendors in hours, not weeks. Retool now helps you create a branded, logged-in experience with any dashboard, flow, or feature you want to get in front of customers.
Hi, Product Hunt!
I’m Antony from the product team at Retool, and I’m so excited to share how you can build portals and business software for your customers, partners, and vendors – faster – with the addition of our two latest products, Retool Portals and Retool Embed.
Now you can build dashboards in Retool and instantly wire them up with built-in authentication, permissions, and branding to ship a custom portal or augment your existing products. It’s fast, secure, and a better choice for developers than having to build everything from scratch.
Retool Portals
Design your frontend with 100+ prebuilt UI components, then switch to code to transform your data and write custom business logic. If you’re hosting your portal fully on Retool, Retool Portals manages signup, authentication, and permissions out of the box, making it more than possible to build a secure portal in a few hours (vs weeks).
Retool Embed
Let’s say you already have an existing app or portal but want to add data, tools, or CRUD functionality quickly. With Retool Embed, you can build out dashboards, forms, and more—and instantly drop them into your software.
Why we built Retool Portals and Retool Embed
We started Retool to help developers build internal tools faster, and have helped tens of thousands of teams reduce complexity, maintenance, and costs along the way. But it’s been impossible to ignore that developers experience these same frustrations when building software for their external users.
So we thought about the functional enhancements we could make to the Retool platform—powering over 500k internal apps today—to solve these same problems for businesses building customer-facing software. Over the last several years, we’ve improved Retool’s speed, flexibility, and security, and feel confident in expanding Retool’s vision. We’re going beyond internal tools to empower developers to build nearly any software for their business—faster.
Get started
If you’re ready to build, you can build a hosted portal on Retool and embed your first Retool app today. Both Retool Embed and Retool Portals (beta) are available across Business and Enterprise plans.
To learn more, check out our docs. Look forward to hearing your feedback and to answer any questions!
Best,
Antony
About Retool Portals on Product Hunt
“Build custom apps for customers and partners 10x faster”
Retool Portals launched on Product Hunt on July 13th, 2023 and earned 233 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Build secure portals for customers, partners, and vendors in hours, not weeks. Retool now helps you create a branded, logged-in experience with any dashboard, flow, or feature you want to get in front of customers.
On the analytics side, Retool Portals competes within Design Tools and No-Code — topics that collectively have 265.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Retool Portals performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Retool Portals?
Retool Portals was hunted by Kevin William David. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Kevin William David