[artathred]

Great launch but curious, why would I use this over Retool? I’m an engineer and the thing I love about Retool is the low-code UI components (saves time sourcing those same libs) + everything done on Retool so I don’t need to dedicate local disk space to my non-important internal app.

[solias99]

Retool is a great solution if you like low-code, so I think it mostly depends on what you like.

For us it's 2 reasons: 1. I had trouble with low-code builders when building more complex apps, so I had to fall back to code. In that sense, we aim to be a thin wrapper around code (by making sure you don't write things like authentication, RBAC etc.)

2. We have an AI offering that allows you to create your tool with just a prompt, and iterate on it. It works more often than not because we're heavily opinionated on what components to use and how our app should be setup. The feedback loop is also faster than low-code because you're just iterating with prompts, so there's lesser cognitive effort.

[badrequest]

> 2. We have an AI offering that allows you to create your tool with just a prompt and iterate on it

IIRC Retool also offers this functionality: https://retool.com/products/ai

[codegladiator]

> I had trouble with low-code builders when building more complex apps

Can you elaborate on this ? Which trouble you came across while using which low-code builder to build what kind of complex app ?

[aerhardt]

Local disk space for internal apps is a concern for you? I’ve never thought to measure the amount of space that a Django Admin app or a custom-built React admin app might take in my hard drive… At any rate I know I prefer having every environment locally and not only in the cloud, and I suspect I’m not the only one.

[artathred]

it’s not only about the space, it’s about the management. When you’re an enterprise managing hundreds of internal apps, it’s way easier to just go to retool.com and find everything vs it all being stored local.

It’s an internal app, nobody wants to dedicate more $$ and hours than they need to managing/building it.

Again, whole reason why Retool even took off in the first place.