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Would it be fair to say Retool is a spiritual successor to Visual Basic, upon which a whole generation of enterprise apps was built?
Yes, certainly! "VB in the cloud" is a pretty good description of Retool. (I think we're a quite a bit more developer friendly, but it's certainly 80% correct.)
Hi all! David, founder of Retool here. We’ve come a long way since we our very first Show HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 ) and subsequent launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966 )! Briefly — Retool is a visual programming language, built specifically for building internal front-ends. The idea is that we can let you use a visual programming interface to get you 70% of the way there v…
Hi all! David, founder of Retool here. We’ve come a long way since we our very first Show HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 ) and subsequent launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966 )! Briefly — Retool is a visual programming language, built specifically for building internal front-ends. The idea is that we can let you use a visual programming interface to get you 70% of the way there v…
One of the challenges of highly regulated verticals is that we have to produce a lot of paperwork for regulators. This paperwork is documents in a particular format (from templates we create) but is populated by data from various databases (and other sources like JIRA, google docs, etc.).
If we could program custom logic that pulls data from our various sources to create an exportable document (PDF) based on the data all over our organization, we could replace two dozen document management people with one script ... and have it be more accurate to boot.
Hi all! David, founder of Retool here. We’ve come a long way since we our very first Show HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 ) and subsequent launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966 )! Briefly — Retool is a visual programming language, built specifically for building internal front-ends. The idea is that we can let you use a visual programming interface to get you 70% of the way there v…
Hi David, Congrats on the funding! I am wondering whether retool can fit this use case? I have some bunch of data which I would like to sell, and would like to give a dataviz tool to a 3rd party customer to play with my data. Are you aware of any customer of you with such an use case?
(Theoretically, the end users could get all the data by inspecting the network requests. But there's really no way around that given that you're exposing the app and its data publicly. I suppose you could get around it by adding a password to the public app. LMK if you need help with that!)
Hi all! David, founder of Retool here. We’ve come a long way since we our very first Show HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 ) and subsequent launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966 )! Briefly — Retool is a visual programming language, built specifically for building internal front-ends. The idea is that we can let you use a visual programming interface to get you 70% of the way there v…
David, I wish you would build some tools to help us build custom document management functions. One of the challenges of highly regulated verticals is that we have to produce a lot of paperwork for regulators. This paperwork is documents in a particular format (from templates we create) but is populated by data from various databases (and other sources like JIRA, google docs, etc.). If we could program custom logic t…
Hi all! David, founder of Retool here. We’ve come a long way since we our very first Show HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 ) and subsequent launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966 )! Briefly — Retool is a visual programming language, built specifically for building internal front-ends. The idea is that we can let you use a visual programming interface to get you 70% of the way there v…
Congrats David, we're a big fan (and users) of Retool.
Hi all! David, founder of Retool here. We’ve come a long way since we our very first Show HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 ) and subsequent launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966 )! Briefly — Retool is a visual programming language, built specifically for building internal front-ends. The idea is that we can let you use a visual programming interface to get you 70% of the way there v…
David, I wish you would build some tools to help us build custom document management functions. One of the challenges of highly regulated verticals is that we have to produce a lot of paperwork for regulators. This paperwork is documents in a particular format (from templates we create) but is populated by data from various databases (and other sources like JIRA, google docs, etc.). If we could program custom logic t…
I’m interested in understanding what it is you need exactly.
I’m working on something that may have overlap.
let me know how I can get in touch!
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Yes, certainly! "VB in the cloud" is a pretty good description of Retool. (I think we're a quite a bit more developer friendly, but it's certainly 80% correct.)
surprised at the final comment. was VB not developer friendly? this wasnt my perception.
VB was definitely "business oriented scripter" friendly. When I needed to do something that felt more like programming than scripting it annoyed the hell out of me.
Note: It was still awesome overall, and the time I spent swearing at it for the complex logic parts was more than worth it for the time and pain I saved elsewhere, but I think that's what the retool founder's trying to gesture at.
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Hi! Thanks for the comment. I'm an engineer as well, so the concerns you raise are things I've thought a lot about. I think Retool does a few things differently, which help: 1. On We allow you to sync all your applications to Git. All Retool apps just JSON, and we serialize that to YAML (that has pretty diffs). So when you make changes to your application, those changes can be synced directly to your Git repository,…
The git thing is only for on-prem.
I'd be a lot more comfortable playing with retool once that happens myself, might, by "only ... so far" appears to be the situaiton.