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Feels like product managers talking about what they think is good software

I normally love the retool articles but I didn’t understand this one as much. Can someone explain it to me in a simpler way as I really want to understand it

Agree that it seems pretty vague and intentionally dreamy. My own interpretation is that as an answer to ai revolution they want to evolute from low-code to no-code

Software is made to a price just like other products. Great software takes time and skill, like other great products.

It's like they know the market niche that gives them life is going to vanish in a poof. They know they need to pivot somehow, but they don't know how

I think the crux of it all is in this one phrase, not given much prominence in the article:

> [A Retool] made of building blocks, [like], if you will, well-built software.

The fact that editing well-built software already should feel like building blocks even when what you're really touching is code is the problem Retool has. As code closes the DX gap with no-code there will soon be little left to set Retool apart from any other programming language

Their website redesign looks good, but also distracting.

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