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David Hsu

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David Hsu
1 year
Visual Basic (and HyperCard) are why we started @retool . @ryanlucas wrote a homage to it (after numerous chats with @MrAlanCooper and @geary ). We're really proud of how it turned out.
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Ryan Lucas
1 year
I've wanted to write a rich history of Microsoft's Visual Basic for a long time. VB pioneered visual programming and had 3.5M developers(!) at its peak, but was lost to the sands of time. A short 18 months and 5,000 words later, it's finally finished👉
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David Hsu
1 year
@TrevMcKendrick Engineers should have high standards for tooling! Most of our users are engineers (I am, too). It's hard to build something *all* engs love (e.g. Rails, emacs vs vim). But if most devs aren't happy we're not doing our job. (DM me w/ specific feedback!) Lots in the works here…
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David Hsu
3 years
@rsg Hi, ceo @retool here. Please do connect; david AT great. Thank you!
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David Hsu
2 years
@anshublog @alexrkonrad @danielgross @eladgil @imthemusic @ForbesTech @Forbes @retool Higher valuations benefit companies because the company gets more money per share they sell. But if the company doesn't need capital, why not prioritize employees and give them more upside? (Yes, VCs get a slightly cheaper price, but we're only selling 1% this round.)
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David Hsu
2 years
@joachimwernerss @retool We have something in beta. Will DM you!
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David Hsu
1 year
@TrevMcKendrick Our competitor is React and it’ll be hard to convince devs that a new programming paradigm is better. (But if you nail it, it can be a huge unlock—working with the Win32 API was awful before Visual Basic came along.) If you have ideas on where we should be heading, please DM!
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David Hsu
1 year
@TrevMcKendrick Next few months, we’re launching better permissioning, supporting most git commands via source control, and revamping our code writing UX. We added debug tools, testing, and multiple environments in 2022. Extensibility and developer ergonomics are our top priority in 2023
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David Hsu
3 years
@PetroSeq @Austen @rsg sorry for your clunky experience @PetroSeq ! would you mind if I DM'd you to get some more feedback? (we know you're not going to use @retool , but would love to learn what we should improve to convince future @PetroSeq ).
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David Hsu
3 years
@aloo @Google @loom @retool fwiw performance is one of the major priorities this / next quarter for us. I'd say we've seen early success *in spite* of our lack of focus on perf, and that in many cases it has held us back
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David Hsu
3 years
@galenking @retool @FrontApp yes, this is quite a common use case! if you're having issues, feel free to dm / email: david@
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David Hsu
5 years
@n8boyd @kevintwohy @retoolapp Internal UIs are simpler (e.g. twitter uses bootstrap for their internal tools, not ), have similar backends (e.g. both Fox and Brex connect Retool to postgres), and have standardized auth schemes (e.g. all internal tools should auth via SAML SSO), etc.
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David Hsu
3 years
@djMaxM @retool Hi, sorry about the trouble! I will investigate to see what's going on; will follow up via DM!
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David Hsu
4 years
@reustle @retool This is a holdover from the days where we had very few customers, and always wanted to understand why somebody was cancelling. Now that we're getting bigger, we'll get it fixed soon. Thanks for calling us out!
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David Hsu
3 years
@fannin_seth @fornerdan @retool @Internal_io Yes! The US Army is one of our customers. Please reach out to david@ and happy to connect you with somebody on our team who can help!
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David Hsu
3 years
@samwightt @retool Hiya, did you see this HN post? We are working on a reply on our blog, but in the meantime:
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David Hsu
9 years
@JocelynJaneLT Yep, am still! Would like to know ASAP though, since I'll be hopping on the rail from Oxford. How much were you looking for?
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David Hsu
3 months
@swainjo @retool Hi @johnswanlive — apologies — our team will be in touch today with a refund. (Not sure why we haven't responded to your support ticket — I will look into it.)
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David Hsu
4 years
@fharper @retool Fixed both. Thank you @fharper !
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David Hsu
4 years
@reustle @retool Sorry! We'll get your plan cancelled + refunded in the next hour. (Oh, and we'll also fix this for new customers within the next two weeks, so others can self-serve cancel.) Will follow up over DM...
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David Hsu
9 years
@JocelynJaneLT Am definitely interested. Can meet and pay in cash tomorrow. LMK!
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David Hsu
4 years
@relequestual @retool Just fixed. (Cat is a bit less cute, but it'll do the job.) Thanks!
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