My app is too specific. I need to develop my admin panel myself from scratch.

As this admin is our main product, every detail matters. We strive to create a great experience for developers as well as the end-users. We’ve made all the work for you when it comes to generic features. And for the remaining features that are strongly specific to your app, you’re free to add them smoothly on top of Forest Admin, as you would have done with your admin panel project developed in-house.

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It only takes a few weeks to build my admin panel. I don't really need Forest Admin.

As with any product, building a great admin panel takes time and requires a strong vision. Most of admins developed in-house have a bad UX with very limited features. An admin panel can bring way more value than performing simple CRUDs. Due to limited resources and time scheduled for the admin development, all other useful features are left for the future, when more time can be devoted to the admin panel. Developers are all facing the same issues and are constantly reinventing the wheel. Forest Admin’s framework is here to finally solve all those issues. Forest Admin is quick to set up and is flexible enough to match any specific needs.

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My homebrewed admin panel works fine, thanks!

Operational admin panels do not come free, nor do they come cheap. Building and maintaining them requires that you invest considerable amounts of resources that are not all easy to measure, quantify and assess.

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I would never externalize my admin panel’s development

Building your own operational admin panel from scratch is a lot of work and requires a lot of internal resources, but you often consider this to be unavoidable, a necessary evil.

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