[raviparikh]

I'm Ravi, Josh's co-founder at Airplane. Really appreciate the feedback!

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!