[HN Gopher] Retool (YC W17) is hiring hackers to combine visual ...
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Retool (YC W17) is hiring hackers to combine visual programming
with AI
Hi HN, We're Retool (https://retool.com), a visual programming
environment for building internal tools. Here's a 3 minute demo
video: https://d3399nw8s4ngfo.cloudfront.net/videos/intro-to-
retool.... You can think of Retool as something like Visual Basic,
but in the cloud. The idea is that there are lots of internal
applications that businesses need, and today, build from scratch
(probably via React). But while React is great for many things (our
landing page is built in React, our product is built in React,
etc.), it's possible that it might be overkill for building a
simple form that POSTs data back to your API. (Who _wants_ to worry
about debouncing the submit button, handling errors from the
backend, and authenticating and authorizing the users?) We
launched on HN around five years ago
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). Since then, we've
launched three new products - a native mobile product
(https://retool.com/products/mobile), an automation product for
developers (https://retool.com/products/workflows/), and a database
product (https://retool.com/products/database/). We've hired and
grown the team to over 350, and are proud to have businesses like
Doordash, NBC Universal, Mercedes Benz, and the NFL using Retool.
The network at Retool is also fairly strong -- our lead investors
in the Series B and C were Sequoia, along with Elad Gil, Nat
Friedman, as well as John and Patrick Collison. Other investors
include the founders of Github, Gusto, Segment, PagerDuty, Plaid,
etc. This year, while other companies are downsizing, we're
doubling down. (Literally.) We're attempting to double our
engineering, product, and design orgs this year. We think the
opportunity to invent the future of programming is enormous, and
we're looking for more hackers to join our team. We think that AI
is going to change the way people build software. We think that
there is tremendous potential in building interfaces that help
humans and AI collaborate together to build software. We want to
build a world where humans can quickly assemble full applications
by just providing high level directions to AI. We believe we're
set up especially well to do just that - we have all the building
blocks for creating software (frontends, backend compute, data
storage) as well as a live interactive builder environment. Why
entangle yourself with messy things like Webpack, Docker, and
Kubernetes when you can directly manipulate a live app, running
right in front of you? We also think that the world, as a whole,
is under-utilizing AI. Businesses are broadly interested in
generative AI and LLMs, but don't know how yet to leverage and use
them. It should be simple for businesses to quickly set up flows to
have AI automatically triage bug reports, summarize customer
feedback, and enrich datasets. We've shared a sneak peak of what
we think some of this could look like
(https://retool.com/blog/gpt4-in-retool/), and there's a bunch more
coming up that we're really excited to talk about soon. If you're
interested in working with AIs and LLMs to change the way companies
build software, we'd love to hear from you. We've made multiple
hires from HN in the past, so we're posting here. But if you know
any friends who are interested, feel free to tell them to reach out
as well. Please email us at snir AT retool with "HN" in the
subject line. Thanks!
Author : jacqt
Score : 1 points
Date : 2023-05-17 17:00 UTC (6 hours ago)
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