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by dvdhsu 2831 days ago
We're Retool (https://tryretool.com). We're not successful startup yet. But we're definitely a startup, haha.

We did a Show HN a year ago: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515494). Then we did YC, raised a bit of money (almost entirely off our HN traction), and launched around a few weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17725966). Now we're profitable!

4 comments

Profitable is a very valid definition of successful! More than one can say of, say, Uber ;)
I'm actually very psyched to use retool in my startup. We're not there yet but soon!
Thanks! Feel free to ping me: david@tryretool.com anytime once you start! I'd love to help out :)
Please turn off the intercom intro when I first land on your page. It distracted me from learning about your project and blocks important text that I was reading with a generic Hello! message
We’re hoping to follow your lead with Orchestra (http://orchestrahq.com)

Traffic has been ok but had 1-2 leads so far.