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   by dvdhsu 8y ago

   1. docs.tryretool.com - we just added it - thanks! 2. You can install Retool in your EC2 instance, and block all inbound / outbound network traffic. I'll send you an email about it! 3. Yes - we can! Curious to hear about your use
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   by dvdhsu 8y ago

   Just added and deployed docs above the fold on home screen. Thank you! - Whoops - we forgot to update that - we added it to cloud a few weeks ago. Updated our docs - thanks! - Hm - good question! I think there's currently no limit, but
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   by dvdhsu 8y ago

   Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Retool, and we're excited (and very nervous again) to be posting this on HN. We first showed Retool to HN around a year ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494 ). When w
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   Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster(tryretool.com)

   592 points by dvdhsu 8y ago|109 comments
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   YC company looking for engineers in SF to test out onboarding flow for a devtool

   1 points by dvdhsu 9y ago
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   by dvdhsu 9y ago

   https://matrix.itasoftware.com
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   by dvdhsu 9y ago

   I have always wondered why the subways in London, NYC, and Paris have no cell signal in the tunnels. Subways in many large Asian cities (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo) have signal in most tunnels. From the article, it sounds like it&#x2
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   by dvdhsu 9y ago

   Interesting! I think that’s why we used the Myo - if you wear it under a jacket, you can input (flex your forearm), and receive output (vibrations), while still staying totally discreet.
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   by dvdhsu 9y ago

   One time at a hackathon a few friends and I tried to game roulette. We got decently far in around 18h. We used a Myo, which you could wear on your forearm. Every time the ball went past a specific number (00, say), you would flex your arm.
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    We use Brex for this! They're YC W17, and do credit cards for startups. You should email them at pedro@brex.com!
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    We cost thousands of $ / month. If you had a problem that you'd pay thousands to have solved, it's probably worth you talking on the phone for 20 minutes. So it's a good filter for us, for now. Once we bring the price po
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Then you're probably not the right customer for us! Do you have problems with internal tooling that you'd pay thousands of $ / month to have solved? For now, that's who we're looking for. And a "request a demo&
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    I think the non-obvious difference here is bottoms-up vs top-down adoption. If you're going bottoms-up, your deal size is smaller, and you want people to start using you by themselves. Think consumer startups like Uber, Airbnb, and ent
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    What’s your email? I’ll shoot you a live demo!
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Sure isn’t! I just loaded it on my computer and everything is fine. Can you open up dev tools and see what’s failing? We’re on cloudflare — maybe something weird happened there?
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/pyka.jp... Second image on Techcrunch article.
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Fast. We use connect directly to your SQL database (mongo coming soon) so that's the perf bottleneck. Currently no query timeout -- if you host it yourself, the server is also async, so timeouts won't be an issue. Caching behind t
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Thanks for the comments! I think editing by code is definitely better when you have 40 separate branches. What if your datasource (e.g. postgres instance) was a variable, and you could change this for each branch? Perhaps forking would also
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! - local data -- good point -- will switch that up so the demo goes faster in future - no loading indicators -- thanks! I think I've used the tool so much I've now gotten used to it, but this is definitely
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    That will be the case with our on-prem version. The backend is open sourced, so you can audit the code yourself. You still use our frontend, but you can be sure we won’t be stealing your data, since you can just open DevTools and see whethe
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Hmm. The problem we have (and presumably one Notion has, as well) is to somehow show off all our widgets, without it being overwhelming. We previously had them hidden in a submenu under "add widget", but we found that the few peop
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Hi. Thanks for the message! That’s a prime use case we were thinking about. What’s your email? I’d love to chat more – mine is in my profile. I agree that data integrations are key. I think that postgres is a start, but for a tool like this
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Sure! Email me; I’ll send you a PDF, ePub, HTML, or something. Thanks for your interest!
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Ha – I do use Notion a lot, and really love their design. Much of our design is definitely inspired by them – the widget picker, for example.
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Thanks! Got data you want to explore in your database but can't be bothered to spin up some React boilerplate? Use us instead! Our goal to let ordinary people build the tools they want, much like Excel has. To that end, I think we&#x27
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Thanks! I agree -- we've literally been writing the docs all throughout the night, and don't expect this to be used by any customers yet :) Security is definitely a concern when we have access to your data. In the coming week, we&
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    As of now, no, but we're probably going to release buttons that trigger API calls in the upcoming week. So you'll be able to reset passwords / clear redis caches / anything else you want, since you'll be able to hit
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Hey -- sorry you were bugged by Intercom. I used it at a previous startup and it was pretty useful for communicating with users in real time. I'll see if I can make it not play the sound on page open!
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    by dvdhsu 9y ago

    Hey HN! I'm one of the creators of Retool, and we're excited (and nervous) to be posting this on HN. Retool is a visual programming language, like Excel. But instead of cells being the base unit, widgets are. Widgets are prebuilt
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    Show HN: Retool: Excel-like, with higher order primitives(retool.in)

    190 points by dvdhsu 9y ago|73 comments