. David takes us back to the early days and explains how he propelled a product idea that, as he puts it, “sounded like a failure” to unicorn status. review.firstround.com/podcast/episod

Retool

@retool

Nov 8

Retool Software Engineer Anna Yan talking k8s and CI. Mark your calendars for 12/5, or better yet, register at the link below! 👇

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Buildkite

@buildkite

Nov 8

This December, Tech Lead Anna Yan will share how the @retool team used Buildkite and @garden_io to run their CI builds on Kubernetes with minimum engineering time.

She'll share insights, updates, and tips — register now to join her: buildkite.com/unblock

"Moving Retool's CI to Kubernetes" with Anna Yan from Retool at the Unblock 2022 conference on December 5th and 6th (NA/EU) and December 6th and 7th (APAC).

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How to find your product market fit Ceo

@retool

~ Be really sales and revenue driven to find your PMF ~ Product led growth is quite dangerous, you don’t get enough feedbacks on why people don’t want to pay for your product #WebSummit2022

⚠️10 minutes until

and

dispel the myths about PMF on the SaaS Monster stage at

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Heading to @WebSummit next week? Make sure to check out @schreier, Partner at @sequoia grill Retool CEO @dvdhsu in a Q&A session on product-market fit!

SaaS Monster stage, Thursday Nov 3 @ 16:05

Myths about product/market fit, and how to find it; The product/market fit is the one and only priority for early-stage startups, but the journey to finding it is arduous. There’s substantial misinformation about what it is, how to find it, and what it feels like when you have it. Join David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool, and Bryan Schreier, partner at Sequoia, as they discuss common misconceptions about PMF, how Retool found it (including the missteps along the way), and whether there’s a formula for finding it (yes, David thinks).

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Retool

@retool

Nov 3

Going to AWS re:Invent? Retool will be at booth 1240 and we’d love to connect while you’re there. Book time to build apps here: calendly.com/retool-booth12

Retool

@retool

Nov 3

Hello #WebSummit2022 attendees! Today is the day, don't miss

@dvdhsu

and

@schreier

talking PMF on the SaaS Monster stage at 16:05

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Retool

@retool

Oct 28

Heading to @WebSummit next week? Make sure to check out @schreier, Partner at @sequoia grill Retool CEO @dvdhsu in a Q&A session on product-market fit!

SaaS Monster stage, Thursday Nov 3 @ 16:05

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Sensible software engineer Mark Bedanov-Pack was recently featured by

@retool

to demo how he improved the speed, organization, and actionability of our team's customer support process!

youtube.com

Sensible Weather Lightning Demo: Using Retool for seamless customer...

Learn how Sensible Weather, a platform that provides weather guarantees on outdoor activities, used Retool to make customer support simple and actionable, wi...

Retool

@retool

Nov 1

All told, Westhill shifted 30 full-time engineers away from internal tooling projects—over 60,000(!) engineering hours—to focus on other parts of the business, and saved over $5 million in the process. Read all the details here: 👉

retool.com

Westhill Case Study

How Westhill rebuilt operations to shift 60% of engineering time towards their roadmap

As a result of the improved workflow, technical operations spent less time on escalations, and engineering was free to spend more time executing against the product roadmap—the actual business part of running a business.

Assigning contractors before Retool: 🔹Required constant attention from level two engineering support team ⏳💸 Assigning contractors after Retool: 🔹Level one operations team can do it themselves, right inside the UI 🥷⏭️☑

However, as Westhill began backtracing some of the most tedious internal asks for the engineering team, they discovered the last piece—assigning contractors—was one of the most common operational challenges.

First, Westhill built an internal admin UI with Retool to streamline marketplace operations. This internal interface included a running list of insurance repair projects, their status in the project workflow, and operational capabilities—like assigning contractors 👷🛠️

In early 2022, Westhill was spending *60%* of engineering capacity on internal tooling. Operations are critical to how a three-sided marketplace runs–but costly. This technical overhead hampered their time-to-market in an increasingly competitive environment. ➡️Enter Retool...

How did Westhill, a three-sided marketplace for insurance claims and home repair, save 60,000 hours and ~millions~ of dollars in engineering time? 🧵:

Heading to

next week? Make sure to check out

@schreier

, Partner at

@sequoia

grill Retool CEO

@dvdhsu

in a Q&A session on product-market fit! 👉SaaS Monster stage, Thursday Nov 3 @ 16:05

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Retool

@retool

Oct 25

It was our pleasure hosting

@join_ef

and

@matthewclifford

last night at our San Francisco HQ. Thanks for the opportunity to discuss Retool's early days; our failures, our resiliency, and how we persevered by obsessing over our customers.

Retool

@retool

Oct 20

Any Londoners about who might like to learn how to build a Retool UI using data from a GraphQL API? Join our friend Jesse Martin from

@HasuraHQ

for a workshop on October 28th!

hasura.io

Get Ship Done

Hasura is an open-source tool that brings together all your data into a unified GraphQL API. It starts with an instant GraphQL API generated from your database, and extends with micro-services, REST...

Retool

@retool

Oct 19

Make Retool apps that make calls;

@EvanPWeiss

shows how in this guest tutorial on the

blog.

🤝 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

How to embed Twilio Voice in a Retool app for outbound calling

Learn how to build an outbound calling component inside of your Retool app using the Twilio Voice SDK.

Retool

@retool

Oct 12

Attention AlloyDB users/the AlloyDB curious: did you know that you can connect AlloyDB to Retool in a matter of minutes with our new integration? 👇👇👇

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Krithika Muthukumar

@krithix

Oct 12

Excited that @retool is partnering with @googlecloud on the launch of #AlloyDB!

Look forward to seeing the next generation of internal tools that will be powered by the integration! Learn more and get a demo: retool.com/integrations/a…… #GoogleCloudNext

I'm spending a lot of time in the

@retool

docs and wanted to find a faster way to search it. I've therefore built out a

@raycastapp

extension for the documentation site. Now it's super easy to quickly look up pages and get the right info I need. Link ⬇️

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Happy to support #LeadDevSanFrancisco to help make great content for developers and engineering leaders even more accessible!

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LeadDev

@TheLeadDev

Oct 8

Join us for this year’s #LeadDevSanFrancisco with @retool as our Live Captioning sponsor. Join us with the industry's leading voices for two days of inspirational talks and learning. See the program here bit.ly/3CGjPWG

Retool

@retool

Oct 7

Thanks to all who came out to our customer happy hour last night, especially our guest speakers from

@coursera

@TreasureFinTech

, &

@flexport

! There’s no substitute for IRL interaction with our friends and customers; we look forward to many more of these in the near future.🤗

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Evan built a sweet custom Retool component to integrate

@twilio

voice calls into an internal dashboard - current/prospective

@TwilioDevs

should definitely check it out!

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Evan Weiss

@EvanPWeiss

Oct 6

Have you ever wanted to add telephony to your @Retool apps? Turns out, it’s pretty simple (thanks to @twilio and @TwilioDevs)!

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Retool

@retool

Oct 5

🌉Tomorrow: Join Retool customers from

@Coursera

@TreasureFinTech

, &

@Flexport

at our customer happy hour, the debut event on our new roof deck at Retool HQ in SF. Food, drinks, and an unlimited supply of internal tools best practices. Reg. 👉 learn.retool.com/sf-community-e

Retool

@retool

Sep 28

“We’ve already more than doubled developer throughput without adding more resources, and we’re just getting started.” Learn more about how Akshat helped to create a culture of operational efficiency at ShareChat:

retool.com

How India's largest social media app builds internal tools to operate faster

ShareChat needed to create an efficient process for building internal tools to keep up with its rapid growth. The end result: ShareChat builds tools and operates faster, all while reducing engineer...

ShareChat operates with 500+ Retool apps—from content moderation to events management. “Building tools for all of our use cases would have required a much bigger engineering team. We’ve reduced our engineering expenses by 20% while still building out those critical use cases."

Now, teams can iterate and build custom tools optimized for their use cases. Ex: The ops team built the Creator Ops Management app within 9 days (10x faster than before) without dedicated eng resources. They use the app to onboard >50k users every month, 20% faster than before.

V2: The only way to scale was to enable end-teams to build their frontends with a platform and frameworks. “We needed the platform to be intuitive and easy to use. We decided to use Retool as our platform for building internal tools across the company.”

V1: Akshat established the Tools Team to own and build high-quality frontends—while end-teams controlled their backends. But, this model started breaking as requests for frontends piled up. The Tools Team couldn’t build frontends fast enough.

Scrappiness came with a few costs: suboptimal user experiences and a lot of time spent on maintenance. As more tools were built with different frameworks and libraries, they were difficult to maintain and update over time—leading to inefficiencies in engineering and operations.

V0: In the early days, end-teams built and maintained their own tooling. But “most of the code that was written for internal tools was about shipping things as fast as possible. [This] often means that you deprioritize the user experience,” says Akshat.

ShareChat is now India’s #1 social media app. To support rapid user growth, teams needed to operate faster. But, their internal tools weren't keeping up. Here’s how

@AkshatBhargav14

evolved the way

@ShareChatApp

builds tools to save eng time and operate ahead of the growth.

Excited to share the brand new on-demand edition of our ⚡️Lightning Demo series! See how Retool startup customers

@secureframe

@cadanapay

, and

@sensibleweather

are uniquely solving support and account management issues using Retool. Watch now 👉 learn.retool.com/lightning-demo

Retool

@retool

Sep 23

That’s a wrap on Grace Hopper Celebration! Thanks to

@GHC

for such an inspiring event and the hundreds of connections we fostered with the future leaders of tech! #GHC22

Retool

@retool

Sep 23

Learn how to configure event handlers, manage app state, and more in this quick app-building tutorial from

@kevinwhinnery

🎲🏰🐉

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Kevin Whinnery

@kevinwhinnery

Sep 23

To learn more about @retool, I’m hacking on a little app to run a game of Dungeons & Dragons (the classic tabletop role-playing game). Care to follow along, and learn a bit about state management in a Retool app?

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Retool

@retool

Sep 22

Join us next Tuesday, September 27th at 10:30 am PT to learn how

@dapperlabs

created a center of excellence for internal tooling that supports more than 300+ internal users! Register here: app.livestorm.co/p/cf2f2753-b29

Going to Grace Hopper this year? Or know someone who is? Please say hi! I'm very excited to catch up with new and old faces, and introduce everyone to the incredible team we're building here at Retool. Let me tell you a bit about the

@retool

crew with me at GHC this week...

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Retool

@retool

Sep 20

Meet the Retool team at @ghc in Orlando this week! We’re hosting booth 1437 — come say hi

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