What are the most popular AI use cases in production? What’s the AI stack that powers them? Our newest State of AI report has data and insights from over 700+ devs and tech leaders on AI use cases, ROI, and more:
Introducing Retool Workflows: automate cron jobs, custom alerts, or ETL tasks without provisioning infra, authenticating resources, or combing through API docs.
Now in beta! 🧵
Introducing Retool Database—now in private beta. We’re giving you the power of a SQL database and the speed of a spreadsheet right inside Retool:
📥 Import CSVs or start fresh
🏗️ Build apps and manage your data together
🚢 Ship changes safely across environments
How are companies *𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲* using AI? We surveyed 1500+ devs, builders, and business leaders to explore production use cases, the models, infrastructure, and tools people are using, and much more. Dig into the new report:
Last year, we raised an unconventional Series C to maximize employee outcomes (over valuation). Today, we’re continuing the approach: we raised $45M for our Series C2 at a $3.2B valuation.
We've revamped our component library into the most comprehensive set of UI building blocks for internal tools.
🥇 90+ React components
✏️ 40+ data input components
⌨️ Built-in validation, keyboard accessibility, time zone handling, + more
Learn more:
Introducing ✨Retool AI✨— features that pull the starting line forward for building custom AI apps, workflows, and chatbots.
Assemble AI apps, securely connect any LLM to internal data, and spin up a managed vector db in minutes. Get started for free:
Retool supports native integrations with
@OpenAI
's latest launches—GPT-4 Turbo (with vision) and DALL·E 3. Ship any vision app in minutes today:
1/ Build document parsing apps on top of any data source
Today, we’re launching a big upgrade to our startup program—now, early-stage teams get $25K in credits in their first year! Build unlimited web apps, mobile apps, and automations to help extend runway and find product-market fit faster! Get your credits:
In case you missed it yesterday, we have a brand new free plan. Developers and small teams can build unlimited Retool apps—all without paying a single dollar.
More: ⬇️
Retool Mobile is now in public beta, and free for teams up to 5:
🚜 Build mobile apps for teams that don’t work at desks
📱 Use 20+ mobile-optimized UI components like barcode scanning, signature pad, and geolocation
🚀 Deploy directly to the app stores
Introducing Retool Database—now available for all! We’re giving you the power of a PostgreSQL database + the speed of a spreadsheet right inside Retool:
📥Import CSVs + ingest data from APIs
🛠️Edit with the ease of a spreadsheet
⚡Get connection strings + 5GB of storage for free
Introducing Retool for Startups 🎉
Focus on building your core product, not custom internal tools. Early-stage startups are eligible for 12 months of free Retool credits and $160K in partner deals from AWS, MongoDB and more.
Get your credits now:
Say hello to the fusion of visual programming, code, and AI.
Retool Workflows is the fastest way to automate critical business processes. Explore, join, and transform your data with real-time feedback and AI-powered actions. Deploy and manage automations with developer-first
How Visual Basic became the world's most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development. Read our deepdive 👉
Retool’s team in San Francisco has a new home—1550 Bryant St, also known as The Hamm’s Building.
A 🧵 on its unique history and why we chose it for our next stage of scaling our company...
At Retool, we’re building a new way to create software—the only way to experience it is by trying it out! So, we’re launching a new free plan. Developers and small teams of up to 5 can now build unlimited apps for free.
Learn more and sign up:
Meet Smart Block—a free and easy way for developers to use the GPT-4 API today alongside the databases and APIs connected to
@retool
⚡Build visual workflows to automate business tasks and notifications
🤖Write instructions for GPT in natural language
🚀Free during beta
That’s a wrap on Retool’s first Developer Day event! It was a packed hour, so here’s a quick look at everything we covered:
1/ 🎉 Retool Database, now available for all
Get a free Postgres DB with the speed + convenience of a spreadsheet. Directly in Retool, no setup required.
Introducing Debug Tools, a faster way for developers to investigate and fix errors in their Retool apps. Ship apps more confidently by understanding why queries run, the chain of events, and more—all in Retool.
🚀 Announcing: Retool for External Apps
It’s now even easier to create white-labeled portals, customize your user onboarding experience, and embed your Retool apps into other software.
Everything you need to know to build your first external-facing app:
We’re lowering pricing to make Retool accessible to more teams!
✨Three major changes✨
- Different rates for standard users and end users (significantly lower!)
- An annual billing option (20% off)
- And, a new self-hosted Business plan
Head to for more
Lab grown meats - very cool stuff. We interviewed the Head of Engineering at
@vowfood
about how they build internal tools, from microscopes to lab notebooks and admin panels. Video and transcript here
We’re excited to share that we’ve partnered with
@stripe
to give
@atlas
founders free Retool credits, as well as $200K+ in discounts and perks from our deal book! Access the discount in your Stripe Dashboard.
We just released Retool Vectors to make working with embeddings and vectors faster and more secure:
- Build chatbots trained on internal wikis, docs, Slack channels, and more
- Make responses consumable externally as an API
- Add permissions, audit logs, SSO, on-prem, and more
Today we're officially launching our developer community: the best place to get help with your apps, learn what others teams are building, and level up your internal tools skillset.
(also the best place to get sweet Retool swag)
It's never been faster to build apps in Retool. Here are 13 of our favorite recent updates:
1. 🕵 Debug Tools
Find and fix errors fast—with new logs, event timelines, and dependencies in one place.
SaaS vendors don’t always offer self-hosted options, but many are tapping into growing demand (including us). Who does it best? What SaaS software do you wish was self-hosted?
“What will we be doing if not understanding how the world works?”
In the first episode of the new Operator's Playbook,
@patio11
joins Retool's
@CuffeJamie
to explore software as leverage, the evolving role of ops, and the future of programming.
Link below👇
It’s time for the 2023 State of Internal Tools report. 🎉
We surveyed 2200+ people to understand how they build internal tools, how they measure their success, how the tools impact their productivity and output, and much more.
Dig into the link in the thread!
We just launched Modules, an easy way to reuse building blocks—think search bars, user tables, refund checklists, and more—across every app. Check out our launch blog to learn more.
Retool is free for teams of up to 5! Build and use unlimited Retool apps to help your team automate operations, manage users, and much more with the new Retool Free plan.
Introducing the Command Palette: a faster way to search and navigate to everything you need in Retool. Instead of clicking around the screen, you can run commands from your keyboard to build faster than ever before.
Get started by hitting ⌘/Ctrl + K ⌨️
Today, we’re excited to share a new public beta for more self-hosted Retool plans. 📢
Now, customers on our Free and Startup plans can host Retool inside their own infrastructure. (1/5)
We think every developer should be able to build production grade mobile apps quickly, and that custom internal tools can greatly improve how field teams work.
Sign up for the Retool Mobile private beta today:
Retool offers a suite of developer tools all in one place: a visual canvas for building web and mobile apps, built-in data storage, and backend services.
Let's see how it looks when you build a full-stack app.
We shipped our AI-powered code generator 2 weeks ago. Thousands of customers use it to generate queries.
Here are 4 popular use cases👇
1. Find datasets: “Get all users that signed up in the last month”
2. Update queries: "Update to get signups in the last three months"
📢 Retool v3 is here, bringing developers more delightful ways to build ✨together✨.
Join us next week on August 10th for a deep dive into our new IDE, powerful new building blocks, and new ways to collaborate without compromising development at scale. Link below 👇
Introducing our new drag-and-drop system ✨
A simple hairline preview makes it easy to land components exactly where you need them to go.
Now available for all cloud customers, coming to self-hosted in the next few weeks.
We've been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list! 🏆
The
#Cloud100
features the world’s top private cloud companies—we’re honored to be included amongst some truly outstanding peers. Huge thanks to
@BessemerVP
@Forbes
@SalesforceVC
@cloud100
!
Retool’s new sidebar frame unlocks a vertical navigation and new layouts that can make complex interfaces more intuitive to use. Read more in
@mayaqgao
's latest product blog:
Considering building internal tools with
@reactjs
, versus in Retool?
Maybe you are intrigued by the productivity gains in Retool, but nervous about giving up the power of a fully custom web app?
Luckily, you don't have to choose between one or the other - here's why. 🧵
Since 2020, we've surveyed engineers and developers for the State of Internal Tools report. We set out to find how companies:
🛠 build internal tools
🧑💻 who uses them (and how)
💸measure the impact of internal tools
Here are the highlights from this year's report:
Push notifications are now available on Retool Mobile. Build native mobile apps for your field workforces in minutes—and alert them on their iOS and Android phones.
Get started for free today.
Interested in using the new
@AnthropicAI
Claude 3 models to speed up business processes? You can now build Claude-3-powered apps in Retool.
Get started for free:
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
Looking to level up your coding skills with payments APIs? 🤖 Our latest tutorial shows you how to create a fully functional ticket-selling dashboard powered by Retool and the
@SquareDev
Payments API!
Look below to see how you can get started with our step-by-step guide 👇
We surveyed 300+ teams that work on internal tools, and 50% of them say their biggest problem is that they don’t have enough time or resources to get the job done. Results thread from our State of Internal Tools survey 👇
Our interview with
@tannerlinsley
on what’s cooking with React: building great UX, performant visualizations and dashboards, ideal component architecture, and working with large data sets in React apps.
With Retool Mobile, you can:
🏗️ Assemble mobile apps with pre-built native components
💻 Customize your apps using SQL and JavaScript
🚀 Ship updates in real time for teams in the field, at the warehouse, or on the go
How do you go about actually reaching a North Star goal for your product?
- Illuminate a path toward creative solutions
- Gain shared perspective on the possible
- Pursue meaningful milestones
- Make use of constraints
- Be methodical
- 🌟!
we wrote a bit about ERP systems: what they are, what they do, where they came from, and what they mean for modern developers. long story short: it’s all about the integration.
Thank you
@Redpoint
for recognizing Retool on this year’s
#InfraRed100
! We’re excited to partner with so many of the companies on the list to change how our customers develop business software.
Today is a BIG day - we're proud to unveil the InfraRed 100, a comprehensive list of the next 100 most promising private companies in Cloud Infrastructure.
The list includes a variety of early, mid, and late-stage companies. See the full list here!
Retool v3 is nearly here, and there's a lot on the way! Join our team August 10th to hear about what's new and what's coming:
🛠 Retool's new IDE
🔒 Source control
🔮 The future of collaboration
⚡️ And much more
Save your spot below 👇
Building and maintaining apps just got a whole lot easier - with code search! 😍
Find references across your code in seconds and navigate directly to matching results.
Jump into your apps to try out the beta today.
🧱 Ever wonder how many LEGO sets are produced each year? 🤔
@amit
dives into the answer with
@Retool
Workflows, analyzing and visualizing LEGO data using Python libraries.
Read on to find out how the LEGO world has evolved over time! 👇
✨It’s that time again: We want to know how developers are *really* building with AI. Share your insights (and hottest takes) in the newest State of AI survey for a chance to win a $500 Amazon gift card:
We just launched Retool Utilities — a hub of 20+ tools for developers to help with the little things, like:
- Converting CSV to JSON
- Generating RegEx
- Creating an API with mock data
(examples in thread 🧵)
See all of them here:
Hear how engineering teams at
@Pinterest
,
@LangChainAI
, and
@EncampHQ
are leveraging AI to power their business.
We’ll discuss how to accelerate AI roadmaps, navigate engineering productivity, and plan for the future of AI.
Register now 👇
Introducing Retool Source Control 🎉
Develop Retool apps like you develop code with branch-based editing, pull requests, and deployment across multiple environments.
Enable your teams to 🚢 new features with a process you trust.
What do engineers want to do less of, or more of? How many hours really get spent writing code? Find out these answers (and more) in our inaugural State of Engineering Time report 👇
Tomorrow we’re introducing a new chapter for collaboration in Retool – from scaling complex, multi-branch applications to hundreds of peers to hacking together in real time (👀).
Register below to join us live tomorrow!
Easily scale Retool across hundreds of teams with new platform governance capabilities.
✨ Organize your teams
🔐 Secure your data
✍️ Delegate permissions
And more!
Read how Retool can be an application layer for your business 👉
Prototyping an app but don't have time/resources to spin up a backend? A few of our teammates created a mock API generator that creates sample datasets and workable API endpoints in just a few clicks. Check it out on Product Hunt today:
Build enterprise software faster without sacrificing security, stability, or consistency. Tune in on November 16th to hear what’s new across Retool’s enterprise platform.
#RetoolAtScale
🔐Orchestrated governance
🤠 Independent workspaces
🔗 Platform APIs
⚡️And more!
Save your
While developing Retool Mobile, our team had to solve several performance challenges with React Native. This led to some unexpected learnings that we shared on our blog:
Link in🧵
With Retool Database, you can quickly build apps on a Retool-hosted SQL database without the complex setup, store data for free, and edit the data without writing SQL queries.
Retool Database is now available in private beta. To get access, sign up today:
What’s new in Retool this week:
1/3 Performance
We’ve improved app performance so queries run faster. Users are seeing up to 10x faster query result speeds for many Retool apps, especially those with significant data fetching and {{ }} usage.
So I write a newsletter, . Every Monday it goes to 17K of you, dissecting the interesting news from
@awscloud
's ecosystem.
Last week I changed my production system. I'd like to show you what I do now.