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Re: Retool AI

#31

Post by gk1 »

cuffe wrote: post #30
yayitswei wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on the launch! Definitely felt the pain of building a custom ETL into a vector db for a recent LLM project. Is there a way to use this independently of the Retool UI builder?

Thanks! Yes so under the hood it's all in a postgres DB with a pgvector column + some metadata. If you go to retool database, you can grab the connection string and use the embeddings with your own apps. I'd like to open this up to bring your own database and integrate with other common vector DBs (Chroma, Pinecone, Mongo vector, etc) next

We can help: greg@pinecone.io

Re: Retool AI

#32

Post by benpopper1 »

cuffe wrote: post #30
yayitswei wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on the launch! Definitely felt the pain of building a custom ETL into a vector db for a recent LLM project. Is there a way to use this independently of the Retool UI builder?

Thanks! Yes so under the hood it's all in a postgres DB with a pgvector column + some metadata. If you go to retool database, you can grab the connection string and use the embeddings with your own apps. I'd like to open this up to bring your own database and integrate with other common vector DBs (Chroma, Pinecone, Mongo vector, etc) next

Would you like to write about the process of creating this for Stack Overflow blog or share some quotes we can use? We're planning to publish a few things on vector DB, embedding, and RAG in the near future.

Re: Retool AI

#33

Post by cuffe »

benpopper1 wrote: post #32
cuffe wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Yes so under the hood it's all in a postgres DB with a pgvector column + some metadata. If you go to retool database, you can grab the connection string and use the embeddings with your own apps. I'd like to open this up to bring your own database and integrate with other common vector DBs (Chroma, Pinecone, Mongo vector, etc) next

Would you like to write about the process of creating this for Stack Overflow blog or share some quotes we can use? We're planning to publish a few things on vector DB, embedding, and RAG in the near future.

Absolutely, happy to help! jamie at retool DOT com

Re: Retool AI

#34

Post by cuffe »

gk1 wrote: post #31
cuffe wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Yes so under the hood it's all in a postgres DB with a pgvector column + some metadata. If you go to retool database, you can grab the connection string and use the embeddings with your own apps. I'd like to open this up to bring your own database and integrate with other common vector DBs (Chroma, Pinecone, Mongo vector, etc) next

We can help: greg@pinecone.io

Awesome - would love to see how we can integrate here. Will reach out

Re: Retool AI

#35

Post by rocauc »

I'd love a template for: 1. Select internal document sources you want to ingest (Notion/Slab, specific Slack channels, named Google Docs in a folder) 2. Enable Q&A + augmented retrieval in response 3. Serve to end users in a Slack channel at our company

Re: Retool AI

#36

Post by hosh »

cuffe wrote: post #10

Hi all, eng who worked on vectors @ Retool here. We’re excited to get HN’s feedback on a new product I’ve been working on: Retool vectors. There’s been a lot of hype around AI, but as I was thinking about what we could launch, there were really very few AI apps that are today _actually_ delivering business value. For example, there are tons of chatbots, summarization bots, etc., but it wasn’t clear how to use them. T…

This looks exciting! I was at a shop where we adopted retool to take the burden off of the engineering team for internal tooling, and I think this is taking it to the next level. Looking forward to see more.

Re: Retool AI

#37

Post by cuffe »

rocauc wrote: post #35

I'd love a template for: 1. Select internal document sources you want to ingest (Notion/Slab, specific Slack channels, named Google Docs in a folder) 2. Enable Q&A + augmented retrieval in response 3. Serve to end users in a Slack channel at our company

Agree we're working on building this exact flow into the product now. But in the meantime I have a Workflow (our version of a webhook/cron job) that does this internally that I can send it to you if you want. Just ping me at jamie AT Retool DOT com

Re: Retool AI

#38

Post by joshma »

orliesaurus wrote: post #15

My personal opinion (besides this constant flux of Retool product announcements) is that I truly tried and gave Retool a chance... but man, it was tough to get started, I rather just code from scratch with some boilerplate.

Founder @ https://airplane.dev here - putting in a shameless plug for Airplane, where you _do_ write code from scratch. :) I think it depends on the builder and use case, and it's not a fit for everything, but our users like / need to manage their tooling as code and are more productive for it.

Re: Retool AI

#39

Post by willsmith72 »

Can someone who's been there tell me how the "Trusted by developers, startups, and Fortune 500s" works? How does Retool (or any company) get another company's logo here?

Re: Retool AI

#40

Post by vosper »

willsmith72 wrote: post #39

Can someone who's been there tell me how the "Trusted by developers, startups, and Fortune 500s" works? How does Retool (or any company) get another company's logo here?

You ask for permission from your contact/champion at the company, or at contract time. You might offer a discount if you’re in contract negotiations.

Getting permission is definitely not a sure thing and might require some luck or savvy, or having a champion with clout (director, VP, etc…)

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