se-stackoverflow February 17, 2023

Because the only thing worse than building internal tools is maintaining them (Ep. 539)

David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool, joins Ben to talk about low-code and no-code tools: why some folks love to hate them and whether they really help devs work faster or just allow those of us who aren’t programmers to muck everything up. Or both!
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David Hsu, founder and CEO of Retool, joins Ben to talk about low-code and no-code tools: why some folks love to hate them and whether they really help devs work faster or just allow those of us who aren’t programmers to muck everything up. Or both! Plus: How David’s philosophy degree shaped his approach to business.

Episode notes:

Retool is a development platform that lets users—95% of whom are engineers—build internal tools quickly with a drag-and-drop interface.

Read David’s account of how Retool won early sales deals in the company’s Operator Playbook series.

Connect with David on LinkedIn.

Today we’re shouting out Stellar Question badge winner ahajib for asking How to convert a list to a dictionary with indexes as values?.

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