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by melony
1358 days ago
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I don't mean to rain on your parade but you have gone the wrong direction. People use low code tools like airplane.dev because they want to rapidly prototype. What you are building appeals to web devs only. You should talk to your customers, there is no shame in copying Retool. Yes your product may not have any more unique selling points but that's okay, the market is big. People want good GUI builders, not more UI DSLs. GUI builders are hard, they are not undifferentiated. But the hard work will pay off, a good GUI builder is great for prototyping. |
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I agree that there's a big market for GUI builders for rapid prototyping as you mention. Retool takes a great approach there, and we're very much not trying to copy them. Rapid prototyping likely won't be one of the main use cases for Airplane.
Instead, people are using Airplane to build more durable internal tools (eg admin panels), and for these use cases, we have many early users who prefer our code-based approach because they can version control it, extend it, etc. There's a lot less vendor lock-in than you get with using GUI-based platforms for building internal tools. We're not trying to compete with those platforms; instead, we're aiming to be adopted by a developer who prefers to build internal tools in-house, and sees Airplane as a much faster way of accomplishing that goal.
Thanks for taking a look!