G2

Sebastiaan D.

Angel Investor

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/20/2025

"Massive-scale back‑office built in minutes, backed by exceptional support"

5/5

What do you like best about Forest?

Forest Admin has been a game changer at Genie.io:

1) Instant deployment: We managed to connect forest to our Postgres DB in minutes, and had a fully functional admin panel with no scaffolding needed

2) Super powerful low-code customization: We built smart actions, role-based views, custom workflows, and dashboards as our business evolved, all without having to bother any of our engineers

3) Actually scales effortlessly: many other tools claim to scale but break. As Genie grew 5× in daily users, Forest just chugged on without any slowdowns, bugs or breaks.

4) Empowers our teams: Forest is so easy to use that our ops, product and engineering teams just built everything that they needed themselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forest?

This is nitpicking. Some of the visualizations could be "freshened up" a little. But it's totally irrelevant to be honest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forest solving and how is that benefiting you?

1) We needed a fully functional admin panel minutes after pointing it at our database, fast, as we were scaling so much. We didn't have the engineering resource to build it all from scratch, especially as our product is complex and data heavy.

2) We needed a setup that created near zero developer dependency, so our engineering teams could focus on user-facing product. That meant we were looking for a robust tool that could be set up once, and then had everything else in terms of workflows, data reporting, RBAC, etc. set up

3) We needed to sustainably fix our friction in support. Prior to Forest, we were building dozens of manual SQL queries, Google Sheets/Retool linked to the DB, etc. It led to some gnarly issues that Forest entirely resolved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.