normanvalentine

A bit tough to photograph:

https://kentwalters.com/posts/public/IMG_0828.jpeg

https://kentwalters.com/posts/public/IMG_0829.jpeg

(author) If anyone around the Bay wants to let me use their CNC mill please reach out! I have lots of things to chamfer.

Here's what it looked like freshly after filing fyi: https://kentwalters.com/posts/public/IMG_7438.jpeg

I actually agree with this too — playing with the sharp edge is kind of satisfying. Like having something in your teeth that you're working on.

I'll admit to having joined the industry after 2005.

Can you say more about how easy it was to get stuff done back then? What was actually easier? Was Access just good and you didn't need to deal with building web apps?

I think this is the standard: https://reactflow.dev/

Anyone have a sense of their revenue/valuation? Would be interesting to get a calibration as we've seen relatively fewer raises lately.

Fairly different - for one, Retool isn't the system of record; they're not storing any of your data, more of a back-end agnostic UI layer.

The user is pretty different too, Airtable generally targets business users who may otherwise reach for a spreadsheet, whereas Retool is focused on developers who might otherwise reach for React Admin (or something).