This feels like the wrong use for Show HN, no?
OP seems to be the CEO of Retool.
Edit: he is the CEO
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#12I really love the breadth of Internal Admin tools that are available today, however, I feel like none has an even minimal support to proper dev flows like dev/staging/production or a way to synchronize releases between our own Backend API and the admin pages.
Totally agree that developing in many no-code tools is frustrating since you can’t use the development workflows you’re used to in your own IDE. Retool Mobile was built as an alternative to react native that makes it easy for developers that know some JS/SQL to build native apps.
We focused a lot on development workflows like staging environments, versioning with Git, debug tools, monitoring with Datadog, etc. There are a few development workflows we can make even better because we own the run-time. For example with Mobile when you’re shipping a new update you can test on a staging environment, test the app directly on a device (vs emulators) and inspect issues with debug tools. Then when you’re ready you can push it live OTA so everyone is on the latest version.
Are there other development workflows that would be helpful for you? We’re investing a lot more here and would love any ideas
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#13This feels like the wrong use for Show HN, no?
I don't think so? it seems to be tryable-outable and they don't seem to have been overposting. What did you have in mind?
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From https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=foxbee it looks like you've been using HN primarily for promotion. That's against the rules - please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
When an account does that, we usually end up banning the account and/or putting what they're promoting into a spam filter. HN is supposed to be a community where people participate out of intellectual curiosity, not an advertising platform. The hallmark of intellectual interest is that it's unpredictable and not specifically connected to other kinds of interest, such as commercial interest.
It's also a little distasteful to intervene in someone else's launch thread to do this, although people do it all the time.
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#15I wonder how long before Apple blocks this. They seem to be pretty hostile to these types of apps and even limited Expo's ability to load projects on iOS if you weren't the direct developer[1]. Curious if Retool got explicit permission to do this. [1] https://blog.expo.dev/upcoming-limitations-to-ios-expo-clien...
Presumably because this targets enterprise use cases it's not a threat to the App Store? Although I'm sure Apple could easily find some way to consider it to be a threat.
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#16Anyone else has problems viewing the video in landscape mode on mobile? As soon as I turn the phone, the video exits fullscreen mode and the part showing Ankur floats above the controls on the right side of the video player so I can't reenter fullscreen
Hi there! I'm Sean the PM at Retool Mobile team and we are working on fixing this issue ASAP. In the meantime, please try this Youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnTxGTioOIA
Feel free to contact me at sean@retool.com if you have any questions.
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#17I'm a prolific user of all things Retool. We are automating away our more mundane tasks with Workflows, but with Mobile we're redefining how our business is running. We have more visibility over our field sales, more control in our warehouses and ambitions to do more.
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#18I wonder how long before Apple blocks this. They seem to be pretty hostile to these types of apps and even limited Expo's ability to load projects on iOS if you weren't the direct developer[1]. Curious if Retool got explicit permission to do this. [1] https://blog.expo.dev/upcoming-limitations-to-ios-expo-clien...
Presumably because this targets enterprise use cases it's not a threat to the App Store? Although I'm sure Apple could easily find some way to consider it to be a threat.
I guess even if they do, it's still available as a PWA, so there's that.
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#19I wonder how long before Apple blocks this. They seem to be pretty hostile to these types of apps and even limited Expo's ability to load projects on iOS if you weren't the direct developer[1]. Curious if Retool got explicit permission to do this. [1] https://blog.expo.dev/upcoming-limitations-to-ios-expo-clien...
Presumably because this targets enterprise use cases it's not a threat to the App Store? Although I'm sure Apple could easily find some way to consider it to be a threat.
As far as I remember, you can onboard a bunch of internal users with TestFlight.
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#20I'm a prolific user of all things Retool. We are automating away our more mundane tasks with Workflows, but with Mobile we're redefining how our business is running. We have more visibility over our field sales, more control in our warehouses and ambitions to do more.
Mike here (Eng Lead on Retool Mobile). Thanks for the lovely note John! It's been great working with you throughout this process and we're really thrilled to hear how we're having an impact on your business.