Retool
More info
- Creator
- David Hsu
- Founded
- 2017
- Type
- Low-code for internal tools
- Website
- retool.com
A low-code kit for the ugly internal admin panels every company needs but no developer wants to hand-write.
David Hsu started the company in 2017 in Y Combinator. The insight was that most internal tools — refunds, account moderation, inventory adjustments — are the same handful of components wired to a database or an API. Retool lets you build the interface by dragging tables, forms and buttons into place and binding them to SQL queries or REST calls, instead of spending a sprint on a CRUD page nobody outside the company will ever see.
The product caught on quickly among startups looking to save engineering time and was valued at around $3.2 billion in 2021.