dvdhsu

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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Thank you for your feedback (seriously!). I myself talked a few users that shared your point of view last year and that's why we ended up changing our pricing. I do think there is more work for us to do — I do think especially as we ge
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Hi Marak! Let me know if you think this response is fair: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27252331 . I'd summarize it as "we used a MIT library to generate some data, and unbeknownst to us, this MIT library li
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Sorry I didn't link to a Dynaboard email. Here's what an (unhappy) customer of theirs sent me: https://imgur.com/a/qTGpgbQ . They were unhappy because they're a) losing all their data, and b) losing all t
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Hm, sorry you found us to be expensive. Two notes: * Forms (ie the product here) is free. * We’ve always aimed to build a sustainable business where we charge reasonable prices and can guarantee we’ll stay in business ourselves. It’s true t
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Amazon pays us more than $1M annually. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426191
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Agreed. I find my AVP actually quite bad for using my Mac. I use a MBP instead of a MBA because 120hz makes a big difference. The MBP screen within AVP is probably something like 30hz (likely because it's using Airplay, and it doesn&#x
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Sorry, forgot to write the footnote so just removed it. Agreed that building a great product and finding PMF is hard. But "not hiring" shouldn't be! (So yes, I suppose the comment was tongue in cheek, haha.)
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
I have a lot of respect for the product and the folks at Airplane. And I (even as a "competitor") find it sad that such a great product is being shut down. My best guess is that they were running out of cash. This to me is pretty
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
(May also have to delete this later, but...) Law enforcement is currently attempting to ascertain whether or not the actor is within the US. If it's within the US, I (personally) believe there's a good chance they'll take the
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
It is not based on the sole testimony of the employee. (Sorry I can't go into more details.)
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Hi, I'm sorry you felt that way. "Shifting blame to Google" is absolutely not our intention, and if you have any recommendations on how to make the blog post more clear, please do let me know. (We're happy to change it s
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Hi, David, founder @ Retool here. We are currently working with law enforcement, and we believe they have corroborating evidence through audio that suggests a deepfake is likely. (Put another way, law enforcement has more evidence than just
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When MFA isn't MFA, or how we got phished(retool.com)
393 points by dvdhsu 3y ago|277 comments
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
For us, every single one of the logos we display on https://retool.com has a committed contract with Retool where they agreed to display their logo. (Generally our champion does need to go ask a VP; in return we offer a discount
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
I've always been confused (and rather peeved) at people who refer to Retool as a low-code / no-code tool. The vast majority of our users are software engineers, and that has always been our focus. In fact, we purposely try and fil
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by dvdhsu 3y ago
Hi Taylor! (David here, CEO @ Retool.) I've reached out over email; this sounds like a bug on our end. We will fix it. Thanks for using Retool!
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
It was surprising to us (here at Retool) that visual programming has never taken off, despite countless attempts over the past few decades. (That's why we started Retool, after all.) But Visual Basic is probably the product that came c
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
(Founder @ Retool here.) Haha, as an HN reader, agreed that it comes across that way. We haven't (and will not) astroturf. I'm guessing this particular user here is John Hughes ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/joh
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Show HN: Retool Mobile(retool.com)
226 points by dvdhsu 4y ago|78 comments
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Show HN: Retool Workflows – Zapier for developers(retool.com)
22 points by dvdhsu 4y ago|11 comments
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
I just sent you an email. We love open source, and would love to support you in any way possible! On public apps: we are in the process of creating a separate pricing package for that based on something other than users (e.g. pageviews). Si
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
Performance is our #2 priority for our engineering team this quarter. We have made some notable gains, but there is much more work to do. Thank you for the feedback and for sticking with us; we are hard at work on it, and expect to deliver
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
I'm sorry; we are actively working on our pricing model right now. (We today launched a 5-seats-for-free plan: https://retool.com/blog/new-free-plan-2022/ .) I think charging for end-users does make sense, but
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
Ah, we still have a way of generating mock APIs: https://retool.com/api-generator . You can upload a CSV (we'll parse the columns and guess types for each one), and then generate mock data and put it into an AIP for you
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
Yes, this is something our infra team is working on right now. As of today, somebody in Australia, with a database hosted in Australia, experiences two round-trips in order to get data (client => our backend => database => our back
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
We probably should support that. What's happened is we initially built the feature for an on-prem customer and never bother supporting that for the cloud version (since anybody who wanted it would just use the on-prem version). Let me
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
We actually didn't need the money (we're cashflow-positive). In fact, we haven't touched the money from our Series B (in 2020) nor our Series C (in 2021). But raising money is helpful because a) it gets prospective customers
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
Metabase is great! I was using it 4 - 5 years ago and it was shocking how good it was as OSS. It depends on your use case: Metabase is designed for BI (i.e. reading large amounts of data and chating it); Retool is designed for apps that wri
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
Yes, that is our target market too. We don't think people will be building airbnb.com (say) in Retool, but not all software is like that. (In fact, we think most software is probably just CRUD apps, haha.) We don't manage the data
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by dvdhsu 4y ago
Hi all, founder @ Retool here. We've made a lot of progress over the past few years, but we first started on HN, and certainly wouldn't be here without all of you! For example, here's when we launched: https://news

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