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   Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation(techcrunch.com)

   236 points by dvdhsu 4y ago|144 comments
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   Charter Communications Hit with $7B in Punitive Damages(wsj.com)

   2 points by dvdhsu 4y ago|0 comments
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   Incident response at Stripe(retool.com)

   1 points by dvdhsu 4y ago|0 comments
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   Stripe's Big Red Button: scaling Stripe's incident response(retool.com)

   18 points by dvdhsu 5y ago|1 comments
5. 35.▲
   by dvdhsu 5y ago

   Hi speedgoose; I'm founder @ Retool. I'm sorry you were priced out of Retool; we don't want anybody to be that way. We're trying a few pricing experiments now (including self-serve on-prem, not billing per-user, etc.). I
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   Retool (YC W17) is hiring engineers

   1 points by dvdhsu 5y ago
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   by dvdhsu 5y ago

   When Marak sent me the email, I read it as a "Hi, I built Faker, might you be interested in acquiring it?". I responded with a "yes, that could be interesting, give me a day to work on this". In the end, we decided that
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   by dvdhsu 5y ago

   Hi all! I'm David, CEO @ Retool. I'm looking in to this right now and will update my comment here with a response in the next two hours. Edit: just did a bit of digging. It looks like we have a Retool template that has some fake d
9. 39.▲
   What’s Accenture? (And why is it worth $140B?)(retool.com)

   4 points by dvdhsu 6y ago|2 comments
10. 40.▲
    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    This is one of my favorite comments on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346 . It really changed my perspective on why Uber has so many software engineers.
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Fixed. Thank you!
12. 42.▲
    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Hi! We've considered making Retool open-source (and we may yet). Is there any particular reason you'd want access to the source code? For example, you can host Retool on-prem ( https://docs.tryretool.com/docs/s
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Thank you for the comment! Do you mind sharing what exactly you were trying to build and how Retool was too constraining? We'd love to learn which use cases we could be doing better in, so we can improve (even if we're able to con
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    internal.io is pretty similar to https://www.forestadmin.com/ , or even djangoadmin. If you're looking for a quick, non-customizable CRUD interface on top of your database, both of them are pretty good solutions. Retool
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Hi there! Thanks for the comments, and thank you for using Retool! We have a product in beta that (I think) does what you're looking for: the Query Library ( https://docs.retool.com/docs/query-library ). This lets y
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Thank you for using Retool! I'm really glad that we've delivered value to you all. Please let me know if there's anything we can ever help with!
17. 47.▲
    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Thank you for using Retool! If you ever have any feedback, feel free to email me directly. :)
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Hi, thank you for the message! That is a very interesting use case. Do you mind emailing me at david AT retool? We've previously built something like this, but for Excel (you upload an Excel template, and we pull in data from various A
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Yes, that should work well with Retool. You just need to build the app in Retool, and then enable "public applications", which'll let you expose the app publicly. We don't bill for public users. (Theoretically, the end u
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Thank you — seriously — for trying Retool! You're correct on the difference — Retool supports writing back to databases and APIs, which is fairly different from most BI tools. On the latency part — yes! We are currently working on scal
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Thank you for trying Retool! I agree that we have a lot of room to improve on the writing of more complicated JS, as well as large-scale refactors. We are working on bringing git syncing to the cloud (currently it's only available on-p
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    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.)
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    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.
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Great question! Against Airtable, primarily in two ways: 1. We are _not_ a system of record, and do not store any data. We'll connect to your data, no matter where it is (e.g. postgres, your own API, Stripe, etc.) 2. We are primarily f
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Fixed. Thank you!
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Fixed. Thank you!
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    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=177259
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Hi there! That's what we're working on with Retool ( https://retool.com ) It's, as you say, a "DB-backed" (or API-backed) front-end builder that's designed specifically for engineers. We don't st
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Hi there! Founder of Retool ( https://retool.com ) here (and long-time HN reader). Agreed that Honeycode is adjacent to us. I think an interesting way of viewing the space [1] is who the product is for. There are lots of drag and
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    by dvdhsu 6y ago

    Hi, yes, this is what Retool is for! ( https://retool.com ) It's like Metabase, but instead of for buliding dashboards, it's for building CRUD apps. LMK if you have any feedback? We've been working on it for a bit n