Superblocks Reviews & Product Details

One of the best low-code solutions for creating POCs and automations on the market. Very intuitive and easy to use, I haven't come across any limitations so far, as opposed to other no-code / low-code solutions on the market (make.com, for example). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Collaboration can be confusing since non-deployed changes are shared between users (so if someone makes a change while testing something, this change will also be displayed to other users and might be accidentally deployed by someone on the team). This is easy to workaround if you set up version control and work on different branches, though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a backend engineer with limited frontend experience, I found Superblocks to be an excellent tool for building internal applications quickly. Its intuitive UI makes it accessible even to those with minimal frontend coding experience. The platform is user-friendly and simplifies the development process significantly.

Additionally, the customer support team has been exceptional, promptly addressing issues and rolling out fixes that have helped us stay productive in our day-to-day work.

Superblocks has been a game-changer for our internal tooling needs! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Superblocks is still a product in development, and certain features are not yet available. However, the customer support team has assured us that the requested features are already in their backlog. I look forward to using an enhanced version of Superblocks with all the features available on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a Sales Engineer for a modern database, I struggle against the proliferation of older generation tools that evolved in the client-server era. They tend to want to pull a large amount of data into the client and then do data operations there. With many of my customers holding tens, if not hundreds of TB of data, this proposition is dead on arrival. We, as an industry, need to have more of the 'heavy lifting' done on the database side - its a simple matter of network bandwidth.

Superblocks is one of the few tools that has this paradigm right, in my opinion. It still provides a low/no code environment that analysts can use to produce dashboards and reports, but it expects the database to do what it does best and delegates that effort where appropriate.

Oh, and with Superblocks, that's just the start of it. With all of their additional capabilities around workflows and applications, it trivializes a lot of the work that is appropriate to do outside of the database. Trivializing this effort leads to faster and greater ROI and greater agility.

While some of the applications my customers need to build require bespoke applications, for those that don't, Superblocks is at the top of my list for recommendations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If I had my wish, the UI would allow windows to be undocked. I have lots of screens , not one big curved one :( ,and it is difficult to get the UI to work well on limited real estate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Library of integrations makes it simple to "plug and play" with many APIs and easy to migrate server endpoints

- Draggable components in applications make building web apps quick and easy for non-FE developers

- The scheduled jobs feature provides a nice interface for non-technical people to build cron jobs

- The ability to string together SQL queries, python scripts, and REST requests into a linear series of steps where you can pass data around makes building dashboards and workflows feel very intuitive

- The engineering support team is responsive, helpful, and cares: at one point in our onboarding process, we hit a roadblock and several people on their engineering team hopped on a video call with me to provide assistance. Much appreciated! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing that I disliked was that the on-prem deployment process took a while, which was the result of having a tech stack not entirely in AWS. I think that having more out-of-the-box guides for different tech stacks would be very helpful. That said, the Superblocks team was supportive throughout the process.

Some things that I don't dislike but could be improved:

- I've found myself writing many scheduled jobs with bounds checking for time (e.g. don't run a job before 9AM or after 5PM) in python, which I think would be more nicely placed in the scheduling interface than the code implementation

- More out-of-the-box graph support: I imagine that data visualization is not the end-goal, but more native graph support would be fantastic

- Would be great to have the FE hosted on customer-provided domains Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main problem with low code tools is that at some point you hit the "computer says no" wall, where the compromises made by the designers of your tools become hard constraints on your ability to implement what you need to. Having been an extensive user of Superblocks for the last 12 months I still haven't hit this wall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This isn't a reasonable thing to ask for, but some level of responsiveness from SB apps and/or a mobile app version of the tool so you can access your tooling on the go would be perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a software engineer, I am always in the trenches. With constant hurdles and pain points, I have been yearning for a product that can help mitigate the amount of interfaces that I need to build, while also having limited worry on middleware. Superblocks has done it, the ease-of-use, the intuitive tool design, the amount of features has left me jumping for joy. I am not one to say this lightly but has Superblocks made coding fun again? The answer is YES! I specifically like the out-of-the-box pagination features on tables, includes controls on column filtering and sorting. I also like how it supports plenty of integrations we used Postgres + Redis, but with such a long list of support, it has given us ideas for furture projects. Also important to note is we had a slack channel with the Superblocks team in charge of our account,

they were always at the ready, and very communicative with us. It was nice to know that if I had gotten stuck that they were right there ready to assist. Hats off the the Superblocks team, 10/10 would recommend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the only potential issue someone may have with Superblocks is during peer reviewing via github or other source control. It's built using YAML files, so if you are not used to yaml, it might be a bit of a challenge. With that, I have no complaints at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very small learning curve in comparison to other tools like Retool, takes very short time to setup and connect to the database with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it's buggy and slow, the experience at times can be worse than with Retool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation and support of the technical team at Superblocks means that the learning curve for this system is minimal. The product is constantly being updatedand the solution itself is easy to use and understand. Additionally, the level of customization is high without being too complex. I highly recommend using this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The free platform expires after about a month, but can be reinstated if requested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Superblocks helps my teams stop writing throw-away scripts and instead build an internal arsenal of helpful, reusable tooling. Before, we were plagued with dozens of slightly different takes on one-off scripts scattered across individual engineers' or technical users' machines.

Before -- each script often existed in isolation, leading to solving the same small friction points again and again, as these scripts were rewritten repeatedly.

Today -- we have simple tools that dozens of non-technical users can benefit from and technical teams only need to design a simple solution once.

Creating a new tool is *almost* as fast as writing a throw-away script -- but with the added benefit that Superblocks lets us turn what were once disposable scripts into long-lived, durable internal tools. This lets our teams spend more time improving products and less time doing throw-away work.

It's also amazing to connect tooling and data from internal systems, Snowflake, our own AI platform and outside APIs too.

Out with scripts and in with tools! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Superblocks is absolutely not a no-code platform. If your team isn't technical already, they're not going to get the most of of Superblock's capabilities.

While Superblocks customer support and customer engineering teams are top notch, they can't operate the platform on your behalf -- so you'll still need Engineers to think through how to code the right functionality to achieve a solution to your problem.

It's a double-edged sword -- the benefit is that scaling simple javascript snippets to hundreds of people is dead simple. The drawback is that you need to learn to accomplish things using code and the Superblocks UI and learn to do so in the Superblocks way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Superblocks does a nice job of taking care of the some of the boilerplate plumbing connecting the UI to the backend.

Plus, they offer gift cards for reviews! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like most IDE GUIs built as websites, it's not as full-featured as a standalone IDE application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.