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   by dvdhsu 7y ago

   I’m so glad people are finally talking about VB! For a certain subset of programming, VB is very effective. I’ve been working on “VB, but hosted in the cloud, and built specifically for developers”: https://tryretool.com . We’re
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   by dvdhsu 7y ago

   VisiCalc is really cool. I think it was probably the earliest "killer app" — you would buy a computer literally to use VisiCalc. As an engineer... I've always struggled with understanding spreadsheets. To me, it always seemed
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   What's Salesforce, and why's it worth $100B?(tryretool.com)

   3 points by dvdhsu 7y ago|0 comments
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   by dvdhsu 7y ago

   Thanks for the feedback — that's really helpful. I agree that our pricing isn't good for a large org that is looking to build a tool or two (instead of say, a few hundred). Do you mind if I email you? (I can't see your email
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   by dvdhsu 7y ago

   As an engineer, this has really fascinated me. Tableau, Salesforce, Excel, etc. were things that never made a significant amount of sense to me. I thought mostly of Salesforce as a CRUD app (which it is!), Tableau as d3 with nicer ergonomic
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   Offer HN: Mock YC interviews

   4 points by dvdhsu 7y ago|1 comments
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   by dvdhsu 8y ago

   Wow, this comment got me really excited. I, too, have always wondered why programming has always been us programmers, sitting down in front of a text editor, writing tokens (def, if, = etc.). It’s what got me working on Retool ( https:&#x2F
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   by dvdhsu 8y ago

   Hi! I'm David, the founder of Retool ( https://tryretool.com ). We describes ourselves as "a fast way of building custom internal tools". (That's what's on our landing page, in fact!) We're inspired h
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   Retool hiring in SF for engineering, developer relations, customer support, etc.

   1 points by dvdhsu 8y ago
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    Retool is hiring for engineering, developer relations, customer support

    1 points by dvdhsu 8y ago
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    Thanks for your feedback! I’ll look more into what we can do. We tried purchasing the .com for around 6 figures, but the buyer wouldn’t sell. I’ll try sending him an email again.
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    Hi — that’s what we’re working on! Retool ( https://tryretool.com ) is similar to Excel, except the cells are themselves React components. And you can refer to other components inside the props for each component. You can pull in
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    Retool is hiring software engineers and account executives

    1 points by dvdhsu 8y ago
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    Retool (YC S17) is hiring engineers and account executives in SF

    1 points by dvdhsu 8y ago
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    How booking air travel works(tryretool.com)

    3 points by dvdhsu 8y ago|0 comments
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    Retool (YC W17) is hiring a first engineer in SF

    1 points by dvdhsu 8y ago
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    Retool (fast way to build internal tools; S17) is hiring engineers and AEs in SF

    1 points by dvdhsu 8y ago
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    Retool (YC W17) is hiring engineers in SF – fast way of building internal tools

    1 points by dvdhsu 8y ago
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    The tweet you referenced is talking about companies that actually applied to YC. Uber, for example, never applied to YC.
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    Retool (YC S17) is hiring engineers in SF

    1 points by dvdhsu 8y ago
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    I'm really sorry! I just emailed you if in case you're still up for meeting up. It looks like I didn't think we had agreed on a meeting, but you thought we had. (I asked whether you were "going to be in SF next weekend&q
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    Retool | SF, ONSITE Hi! We're Retool ( https://tryretool.com ) - a fast way to build internal tools. We recently launched on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966 ). We're profitable, growing
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    (I work at Retool, and Patrick is an investor.) > Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? If so, how? I think that most end-user applications now have APIs that allow you to manipulate the data. For example, Salesforce, Le
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    Oh no! We shipped a bug earlier today which messed up the z-index of the onboarding modal. Fixing now... Edit: fixed — thanks!
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    Building apps on top of Google Sheets(tryretool.com)

    87 points by dvdhsu 8y ago|20 comments
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    Thanks! Feel free to ping me: david@tryretool.com anytime once you start! I'd love to help out :)
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    We're Retool ( https://tryretool.com ). We're not successful startup yet. But we're definitely a startup, haha. We did a Show HN a year ago: ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 ). Then we
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    Happy to pay! Email me at david@tryretool.com please. :) (Your profile email isn’t public!)
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    by dvdhsu 8y ago

    Retool | SF, ONSITE Hi! We're Retool - a fast way to build internal tools. We recently launched on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966 ). We're profitable, growing quickly, and have raised money from
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    Retool (YC S17) is profitable and hiring engineers / AEs in SF

    1 points by dvdhsu 8y ago