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Great launch guys! What is the difference between Retool, Basedash and Outerbase other than they are all funded by YC?

burcs 4y ago
Great question! Our focus is making data easily accessible for your team rather than building out internal dashboards. I'm a big fan of Retool and Basedash and love what they have done, but there's still some initial learnings there to build those experiences, where we want to enable users to come in and immediately see their data and start interacting with it. I see a future where we end up replacing more traditional BI tools rather than internal tools, if that makes sense?
systems 4y ago
what is basedash, and what is "an admin panel", i visited their site and google for like 10 minutes and still no clue what this is retool is a rad platfrom, i found it when i was looking for an MS lightswitch replacement, so its clear what it is also outerbase is a bit strange, its a cloud db interface and the download link is for mac (not windows, mac) , the use cases seem very particular (niche) to me
- burcs 4y ago
  Yeah we had a windows version as well, it was a bit buggy so we decided to launch without it. I'm curious why does use case sound niche? We love to think that giving everyone access to data is a pretty big challenge to solve. Is it in our messaging or do you think the overall vision is off? Would love to understand how we could be more clear in what we are providing.
  - systems 4y ago
    the market is huge, different people need different things making a cloud app is not niche, the mac only client was a bit unusual for internal apps, moving to the cloud is a big step for most places i worked in, its a huge step I just find it striking, that its considered as a casual thing or the norm, nowadays I think maybe you might want to explain on your site, why puting your internal db on the cloud is safe, easy ... and not a big deal
maxmusing 4y ago
Basedash founder here. We're much more focused on admin panels that you would give to non-technical teammates (e.g. support, ops, sales) to view & edit data. Less around data analysis and charts, though we have a bit of that. We're also not limited to databases, you can set up actions to hit APIs (e.g. Stripe, SendGrid, internal APIs).

Great question! Our focus is making data easily accessible for your team rather than building out internal dashboards. I'm a big fan of Retool and Basedash and love what they have done, but there's still some initial learnings there to build those experiences, where we want to enable users to come in and immediately see their data and start interacting with it. I see a future where we end up replacing more traditional BI tools rather than internal tools, if that makes sense?

systems 4y ago

what is basedash, and what is "an admin panel", i visited their site and google for like 10 minutes and still no clue what this is retool is a rad platfrom, i found it when i was looking for an MS lightswitch replacement, so its clear what it is also outerbase is a bit strange, its a cloud db interface and the download link is for mac (not windows, mac) , the use cases seem very particular (niche) to me

burcs 4y ago
Yeah we had a windows version as well, it was a bit buggy so we decided to launch without it. I'm curious why does use case sound niche? We love to think that giving everyone access to data is a pretty big challenge to solve. Is it in our messaging or do you think the overall vision is off? Would love to understand how we could be more clear in what we are providing.
- systems 4y ago
  the market is huge, different people need different things making a cloud app is not niche, the mac only client was a bit unusual for internal apps, moving to the cloud is a big step for most places i worked in, its a huge step I just find it striking, that its considered as a casual thing or the norm, nowadays I think maybe you might want to explain on your site, why puting your internal db on the cloud is safe, easy ... and not a big deal

maxmusing 4y ago

Basedash founder here. We're much more focused on admin panels that you would give to non-technical teammates (e.g. support, ops, sales) to view & edit data. Less around data analysis and charts, though we have a bit of that. We're also not limited to databases, you can set up actions to hit APIs (e.g. Stripe, SendGrid, internal APIs).