antonybello

<3 Love to hear it! (PM at Retool)

We're revamping some things around Public Apps to make them better/more accessible/more easily shareable for unauthenticated use cases, where you don't pay for end users.

For use cases where you are authenticating external users (using Retool Embed or Retool Portals), we offer custom pricing because use cases vary quite a bit. Sometimes the number of users doesn't even make sense as the billable metric.

Happy to chat more to see what'd work for you - feel free to reach out at antony [at] retool [dot] com!

We actively work with folks on custom pricing that aligns with their needs, so would love to understand what model makes sense for you! If pricing is the blocker, you can email me at antony[at]retool[dot]com. Would love to help.

Antony here, PM at Retool. We’re really excited to share how you can quickly build portals and business software for your customers, partners, and vendors.

We started Retool to help developers build internal tools faster—and along the way noticed that a lot of the same frustrations with complexity, costs, and data risks applied to building software for external users too. Developers are often forced to build from the ground up: setting up a database from scratch, integrating multiple APIs, configuring the latest Webpack release and making it work in CI, fiddling with CSS to get components to fit company branding, and then managing auth, SSO, permissions, scaling, performance—the list goes on.

So, we’re introducing two new products. Retool Portals is great if you want whitelabel Retool and have it manage login, signup, and user management; Retool Embed makes sense if you want to augment an existing portal with the functionality you build in Retool.

I’d love your feedback on how to make these even better. Also happy to answer any questions.

Hi there, super happy the new Free plan would work well for you!

I’d try visiting our billing page under settings/billing and see if you can select the free plan from there. If that doesn’t work, send me a note at [email protected] and we’d be happy to fix this.

Hi! It’s hot off the press— we just launched it today!

Your point about trends in healthier eating is a great one and something we're cognizant of. We're partnering with some awesome vegan food vendors in the next weeks to come, and we've had talks about other menu items that are complementary to Mac n Cheese, as well as having smaller portions.

Like most restaurants with new concepts, we need to draw a line between catering to everyone and sticking to our brand. Out of the above ideas, we'd want to experiment with smaller portions. But we'd like to continue getting feedback on our current concept before making these changes.

As we scale, things like monitoring operations and rolling out changes quickly (new recipes, modes of preparation, etc) become difficult. Expanding will help us see bigger gaps in our own processes, and that's where we believe that tech can come in and make operations more visible and smooth. At least, that's what I'm excited about :)

I wondered why Peet's Coffee (200+ locations worldwide) still uses paper checklists to ensure employees are following procedures, and it may have remained archaic because it's physical and familiar. But that's not the direction we want to go.

We're working on it now -- this was a Hackathon project developed in 12 hours so we haven't had time to load test it yet, but it'll be up shortly :)