Empowering with Retool: Growing Impact and Unimaginable Use Cases

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Retool has experienced significant growth in various metrics since 2020. The most exciting aspect for the speaker is witnessing the remarkable use cases created with Retool, such as NBC scheduling the Olympics and Amazon controlling satellites in space. Retool is seen as a tool for building meta software, enabling others to create powerful applications. The focus is on designing applications that empower users to build exceptional software, making the work on Retool truly engaging and innovative.

Retool is a platform to help engineers quickly build internal frontends. It does this by abstracting away repetitive aspects of frontend development. The platform was started in 2017 and has received funding from Sequoia, Stripe Co-Founders, and Nat Friedman.

David Hsu is the founder and CEO of Retool. He joins the show to talk about why he started coding, studying philosophy and computer science, Retool’s tech stack, and more.

Paweł is the founder at flat.social the world’s first ‘flatverse’ start-up and glot.space, an AI-powered language learning app. Pawel’s background is as a full-stack software engineer with a lean and experimental approach towards product development. With a strong grounding in computing science, he spent the last decade getting early-stage products off the ground – both in startup and corporate settings. Follow Paweł on Twitter, LinkedIn and his personal website – pawel.io.