Five years of building boldly with Retool
To celebrate our five year anniversary on Retool we reflect on five years of building on Retool, how much the platform has changed and how far we've come.
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48 posts — Explore a range of tutorials, articles, and resources about Retool, the powerful platform for building internal tools quickly and efficiently. Learn how to optimize your workflows, integrate with APIs, and unlock Retool’s full potential. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced user, find everything you need to master Retool and enhance your app development process.
Top 6 platforms for building business automation
In this guide, we’ll break down the best automation platforms - who should use them, what they’re great at, and where they fall short. If you’re looking for a no-nonsense guide to the top tools worth considering - this is it.
UI tips: Creating dropdown actions in Retool
In this tutorial we show you a great UI tip in Retool - using table buttons to set up dropdown actions that save space in your apps.
How to build an inventory management system with Retool & Xano
This tutorial will guide you to create a simple inventory management system using Xano API for your backend and Retool for your frontend.
What is Retool?
Retool is a business software builder aimed at helping developers build faster. Devs require decent knowledge of JavaScript and SQL but can build highly custom apps much faster than traditional code.
Integrating ‘Fillout’ forms into your Retool apps
In this tutorial, we connect the Fillout API to Retool to display form responses directly from a Retool app.
Advanced permissions in Retool: The Fundamentals (Retool for Enterprises)
Permissioning for large-scale deployments can be complex, so in this article we break down the fundamentals of how Permissions work in Retool, and share some essential tips.
Building the Steam UI on Retool (with template)
In the final release of our Retool UI inspiration series, we recreated the Steam interface. Newsletter members can download the template for free!
Retool for Enterprises Part 1: The Basics
Retool is a powerful tool for enterprises yet many still struggle to build for scale. In this first article, we’ll cover essentials for enterprises, like how they can use Retool best, pricing plans and self-hosted vs cloud.
Creating Retool in Retool (with template)
In this UI inspiration piece, we created Retool-ception. Retool, built on Retool. Check it out! Newsletter members can download the template too.
How we built YouTube in Retool (with template)
In this UI inspiration template, we have recreated the YouTube UI using Retool! Newsletter members can download the template for free.
Reddit-inspired UI in Retool (with template)
In this UI inspiration template, we have recreated the Reddit UI using Retool! Newsletter members can download the template for free!
Building interactive maps with OpenStreetMap API in Retool
The native Mapbox component in Retool offers powerful capabilities for building interactive maps, giving users the ability to visualize and work with geospatial data.
Hubspot-inspired UI in Retool: CRM Template (with template)
We built a Hubspot-inspired CRM UI in Retool with some super useful features. Members can download the template for free!
Retool Basics: Create a CRUD app for your data
This tutorial is an intro to the basics of Retool, including connecting to resources, setting up a basic CRUD app, and deploying your app with permissions.
Plotly AI helper - Generate Plotly charts in Retool in seconds!
We built an AI chatbot to quickly generate Plotly charts inside of Retool according to user prompts. Newsletter members can download the chatbot module TypeScript for free!
Charting in Retool with Plotly. Part II: The Sankey Diagram
In Part II, we share a case study of how we used Plotly to build a complex Sankey generator with a super user-friendly interface.
Charting in Retool with Plotly. Part I: Line graphs step-by-step beginners guide
In this first part of the Plotly in Retool series, we’re going back to basics with the line/scatter chart and how to add more useful features like trend lines and annotations.
UI tips for building efficient data dashboards in Retool
In this UI guide, we run through some practical tips and tricks to apply to your data dashboards and admin panels to ensure the best user experience for your team.
Building a custom calculator for pricing quotes, loan estimates, tax planning & more, using JavaScript & Retool
In this tutorial, we will show you how we built a complex Retool Pricing calculator so that you can too.
Build an AI chatbot with custom knowledge base in <1 hour
Looking for a simple AI chatbot to help you quickly search many internal business resources? In less than an hour build an AI chatbot with a custom knowledge base in Retool.
10 tips to increase speed and performance in Retool
In this article, we summarize 10 tips to help you speed up your Retool apps and ensure they stay performant.
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Build an inventory-tracking app on Supabase & Retool [pt. 2]
In part 2 of this tutorial, we use Retool and Supabase to build an inventory tracker in less than an hour.
Airplane.dev is shutting down. What next?
Airplane.dev has just announced it will be shutting down, and customers must exit the platform by March 1st 2024. Here are some alternative platforms to (re)build your internal tools and scripts.
