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Retool mentions (89)

• The End of Airplane.dev

  I am building https://github.com/claceio/clace and https://retool.com/, allow automation of operational tasks through a web interface while also allowing fully custom web apps. Clace also works great for running simple web apps locally. Building and deploying a web app should be as easy and common for backend engineers as creating a CLI app is. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• FastUI: Build Better UIs Faster

  This seems to mainly be useful for spinning up quick and dirty internal tools. But for that use-case, isn't it easier to use something visual and established like Retool (https://retool.com/) or that generates nice react code, like MUI Toolpad (https://mui.com/toolpad/)? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Internal tools often make bad startup ideas

  There are obvious counterexamples, like https://retool.com, which is a successful company with solid revenue and multi-B valuation. > software engineers — who are often influencers in a purchase decision — are strongly incentivized to build instead of buy Regardless of what software engineers would rather do, pressure from real users trumps pressure from internal users. This especially true in startups, whose... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• YC: Requests for Startups

  I submitted an application for w24 that fits in the "Developer tools inspired by existing internal tools" category but wasn't accepted. I suspect my pitch probably needed work, and I also haven't started building at all yet and submitted as a solo-founder which it seems has less chance of being accepted. Here's the pitch and some details, in case anyone else is interested in the idea: > Supportal uses AI to... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  ReTool — Low-code platform for building internal applications. Retool is highly hackable. If you can write it with JavaScript and an API, you can make it in Retool. The free tier allows up to five users per month, unlimited apps and API connections. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

Google App Engine mentions (25)

• CQL Trace Viewer: Visualizing CQL Traces with Dash

  To deploy the app, we can use Google Cloud App Engine, which is specifically built for server-side rendered websites. After we create a new project in the Google Cloud Console, we have to configure the cql-trace-viewer application. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• Which service to host a Discord bot?

  I've read that article, but I'm thinking there are other better (and most importantly cheaper) ways of doing that, such as using App Engine (given that you have to mitigate the maximum request timeout and to make sure there are constantly exactly 1 instance running). Source: 11 months ago

• Using NextJs for front-end only?

  Shout out to GCP App Engine for deploying anode/Express severe. Source: 12 months ago

• What will Komi's resume look like?

  If your project is a bit more complicated using next.js or react.js or angular.js, you may find some free Platfrom-as-a-Service%20is%20a%20complete%20cloud%20environment,middleware%2C%20tools%2C%20and%20more.). I have seen some of my peers using free PaaS like Heroku, Vercel and I have no experience in using PaaS but I will recommend you to use PaaS from either of the three 1. Google Cloud's Google App Engine 2.... Source: about 1 year ago

• JDK 20 and JDK 21: What We Know So Far

  UNIX is irrelevant on the cloud, unless one is stuck deploying legacy workloads on VMs, this is what we use in modern applications not stuck in the past. https://aws.amazon.com/eks/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/kubernetes-service https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/ https://cloud.google.com/appengine https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/app-service https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago