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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…",{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Engineering teams building internal business apps.","inferred",[66,67],{"id":60,"by":11,"text":61},{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"17726643","danpalmer","Hi dvdhsu, this looks great. At Thread we build lots of internal tools, but would like to be able to build more. We currently use ChartIO to build dashboards, but some of these…",{"value":72,"source":57,"evidence":73},"Make internal tool building faster, after discovering internal tools as a good use case.",[74],{"id":60,"by":11,"text":61},[76],{"value":77,"source":57,"evidence":78},"React",[79,82],{"id":80,"by":11,"text":81},"17731331","React! Syncing from scratch would be difficult, and probably not worth it for now. Thanks for finding both bugs! I’m on my phone (in bed) now, but I’ll fix it tomorrow morning.…",{"id":83,"by":11,"text":84},"17729881","Thank you for your kind words! Yes - dragging and dropping + resizing is one problem we should spend a lot of time improving. It currently works... but we could probably make…","unknown","launched","company",{"praise":89,"objections":125,"requests":150,"questions":173,"alternatives":190},[90,106,117],{"value":91,"source":92,"evidence":93},"Polished product and landing page","commenter",[94,98,102],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"17726656","m0meni","Your landing page is insanely good. How did you create those animations? Also just the general styling\u002Fdesign of the entire site + retool itself is so well done.",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"17726975","onlyrealcuzzo","Congrats! Your landing page is fantastic. I would definitely urge people in my company to give this a try for future internal tools. 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This is amazing. Lot of folks have tried to make a general purpose visual programming solution and it always sucks. However, if we narrow the problem to 1. Show some…",[126,136,143],{"value":127,"source":92,"evidence":128},"Requires on-premise install to avoid opening firewall to databases",[129,133],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"17731086","nhunter","Really cool idea, and would completely simplify our internal tools building process, but opening our firewall to allow access to the small scale internal DBs that we would work…",{"id":134,"by":11,"text":135},"17729814","No, your data never goes anywhere. You can deploy Retool and airgap it to prevent all inbound \u002F outbound network connections. Then you can connect to it via a VPN. I will reach…",{"value":137,"source":92,"evidence":138},"Hard to understand and maintain existing apps",[139],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"17730659","kluck","This seems optimized for creation of small apps (and is also presented very well). But what striked me watching the intriduction video: When you revisit your a written app, it…",{"value":144,"source":92,"evidence":145},"Name 'internal tools' is vague",[146],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"17731206","borntyping","Definitely impressive. 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