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Can't speak about Retool but I wouldn't want to go away from standard software development life cycle with version control, release management and testing... And I definitely would want to avoid a proprietary platform. Isn't there an open source alternative?




Thanks for that - I hadn't come across PayloadCMS.

Retool seems to support basics like version control, release mgt etc but the platform risk of a proprietary platform is certainly a concern.


I would also recommend looking at Directus (https://directus.io).

We evaluated PayloadCMS to drive the backend of a mobile app and eventually settled on Directus because it supported heterogeneous collections which was something we had to have.

Directus also has a template for a multi-tenant app which sounds like something you might need.


I believe Appsmith is open source, and self-hostable. Never used it, so I'm not sure if it's fully or partially open.


Lowcoder is fully open source and self hostable.




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