Hey I'm on the team at Retool and this is a place we're spending a lot of time right now. We're still working through the challenge of showing the depth of the IDE while balancing the goal of a lot of new users to maybe just get an admin panel or support dashboard that connects to their existing db or salesforce.

I'd love to hear from you (or anyone else reading this) on how your getting started experience went, particularly if you found yourself wanting to just eject into writing a script or app elsewhere. I love to pair on apps whether it's moving existing code into Retool or starting fresh to see the hurdles. My email is my HN username @retool.com

BTW just sent a twitter DM, thanks again for the feedback.