Superblocks Pros and Cons

- 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.

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.

The ease of use and getting onboarded with the product is something that Superblocks provides in a pretty great way. Even the documentation that is provided is very helpful to understand the components and the workflows.

Even the Superblocks implementation team is very helpful and highly efficient in bridging any kind of learning gaps and workflow implementations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Currently the only downside seems to be a concrete way for peer review or a feasible way to incorporate multiple reviewers and then have a deployment pipeline.

Maintenance of deployed apps can be a challenge sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Has lowered the barrier of entry to who can be a front-end developer and prototyper, changing the way PMs can work in the company. Has also sped the pace of development for front-end developers themselves. The team is very high touch and invested in our success, and is quick to address any issues that may arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still a bit clunky for non-front end minded people to get started and building with. Want more shared APIs and components acros the workspace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use and ramp up, it is not an overly complex tool and does everything we needed.

We were able to deploy easily in our internal infrastructure which was a must for all our internal tooling.

Have all the integrations we needed to get build our internal use cases, zero workarounds you have to do.

The new features around multi page application is super useful for complex and larger tools. We were able to implement an all in one solution for our support team which is now well loved and used daily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, the team is very supportive and it was very easy to get help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is incredibly quick and simple to build tools. With very little effort, and almost no boilerplate code to write and maintain, we are able to introduce needed tools at a far more rapid pace than with our previous, semi-proprietary method. While there are other platforms that can provide similar end results, when comparing them, I felt that Superblocks streamlines the process significantly. While their stable of pre-set integrations is still somewhat limited, their ability to use REST APIs and OpenAPI means your build capabilities are not limited. Their documentation is good, but where it is missing something, their support team is a chat away, and responds quickly and with familiarity with the platform, getting you the answer you need without making you wait days for a support engineer. Our legacy platform took weeks of work by a talented and driven team before we could even build our first tool, but with Superblocks, we had production ready tools in a matter of days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI designer has some oddities that take some getting used to, and there are some things (like being able to show users the time left on a timer object) that are not available. Currently, granting access to internal or on-premise data requires commiting to running all tools through the on-premise agent, with no hybrid connectivity model as of writing.

However, based on their documentation, they are constantly looking to improve and increase the capabilities of the platform. Anything I dislike can be creatively solved with the capabilities they do provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.