Spreadsheets are often used as “poor man’s databases”—they’re quick to get started, but fall apart when you need data integrity, validation, and the ability to query/filter data.

This is why I am so excited about this launch - Retool Database gives you the power of Postgres with the “getting started” speed of a spreadsheet. No setup required.

We've also spent a lot of time on the UI for interacting with the database as well. You can create and edit tables, columns, and rows quickly without writing SQL. You should be able to get the same speed of iteration as spreadsheets, but you are also starting from the get-go that can handle the increasing complexity of your data and scale much better with app development.

We’re giving you 5GB free storage for the first year + connection strings so you can access your data outside Retool.

Lots of learnings as we built this—happy to answer any question you have!

Can I point Retool Database to an existing Postgres database? If not, do y'all have any plans to add support?

How's it work under the hood? Custom extensions?

As for "getting started" speed and general data tinkering, I find little beats Gnumeric -> CSV -> SQLite query [2] although I appreciate that solo developers aren't your target market :)

[0] https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381252

[2] https://til.simonwillison.net/sqlite/one-line-csv-operations

Edit to add: really killer addition to the product, keep up the great work

For self-hosted customers, is the database still on-premises? Or does it live in the Retool cloud?

1: https://github.com/tryretool/bookstore_sample_app

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmLPdHqC0uQ

There are some URLs on a table, I want to select them and I want to make an API call to the selected URLs. There are a few discussions on their community website and all point to one documentation piece. I still haven't figured out how to do this. I don't want open a thread because I know I am going to be asked to read the documentation.

Google "multiple api request retool".

An example of this is the Table components, which allows you to create columns and set them a specific type, but that component documentation page doesn't include a section about which column types are allowed and how they work. Even further, there's a column type called Tag that it's available for us to use, but we don't have documentation about it and Tag documentation isn't helpful either,

It wouldn't hurt to add some common examples like a storybook along some way to let us see how to configure the components like that, or json examples we can import into our projects.