dominicwhyte

Has anyone worked with ServiceNow before? What's the most interesting use case you've seen?

The CERN one is a classic. 4000+ apps for managing everything from vacation requests to particle accelerator access

https://indico.cern.ch/event/587955/contributions/2937853/at...

We evaluated most of these (minus Workato) and landed on Nango. Was by far the most flexible and having the source code available was a big plus (vs. the closed-source alternatives). The team is also reactive to feedback in their Slack community, they even added a few new endpoints for us in < 24 hours

Nango is awesome. I've used it across several projects and it's sped up our "time to live integration" significantly + reduced maintenance costs. Congrats Bastien, Robin and team!

Very cool. I was initially confused since I expected the questions to be multiple choice, but then I realized you're evaluating whether the answer is correct or not using AI (so I can type "Obama" or "Barack Obama" and both are correct). Haven't seen that approach before!

(OP here) Bit of a controversial take I wrote about. Most people think that AI benefits incumbents and LLMs deepen software moats.

But for the first time, we have an intelligent, format-agnostic file converter. Give ChatGPT an export file from one app, and seconds later you get an import file ready for another tool.

We've seen the benefit first-hand at our startup with our "AI Form Importer". It's now easier than ever to demo and migrate to new software solutions.

I think this is largely a good thing for the ecosystem.

We use Nango for https://fillout.com and it's been a great addition to our tech stack. Has made it much faster to add new integrations without having to navigate OAuth docs each time

We do at https:///www.fillout.com (online form builder).

Free plan includes 1000 submissions per month and then we offer discounted pricing plans for startups

We give 2-3 examples and find that it works pretty well (few shot fine tuning) but haven't tried actual fine tuning yet so I don't have a 1-1 comparison.

We also have other spam filters that are not LLM-based. One of the main benefits of the LLM-based approach is that it's good at catching people who try to avoid detection (e.g. someone purposefully mis-spelling suspicious words like "pa$$word")

It outputs both - { isLikelySpam: boolean, reason: string }

Then we have an inbox app (also made in Retool) that our support team uses to manually review any submissions that are isLikelySpam = true. The <reason> helps to understand why it was flagged.

Our use case is for a form builder (https://fillout.com) but I imagine this type of use case is pretty common for any app that has user-generated content

We've been using the ChatGPT API from Retool Workflows (for spam detection) and it's been valuable for our business. The built-in vector DB looks interesting

Seems like every big tech company is building a database product: Zapier Tables, Microsoft Lists, Retool DB, Google Tables, Monday WorkOS...

Feels like a return to the Database Wars of the 90s

Thanks. We've got a lot planned on that front - like auto-translating templates to different languages, generating themes with GPT, etc.

So many possibilities!

Hi folks - sharing my mistakes and learnings from how we added AI to our SaaS (and what we're trying differently now).

I'm around if you have any questions/comments.

Dom

Big fan of Equals. We use it at our startup to track cohorts (using live data from Stripe)

We have Twitter already! https://tryapis.com/twitter

Hi everyone!

I made this site a few months ago but never properly launched it. TryAPIs lets you browse popular REST APIs, with built-in docs and an interface to call endpoints from your browser.

I generate a unique page for each API endpoint using Gatsby, like https://tryapis.com/spotify/api/endpoint-search for calling the Spotify search endpoint. Docs are built in by parsing the latest OpenAPI specs for each service.

If you don't want to call the endpoint from the browser, you can copy a cURL request or a code snippet in Python, Node, C, etc.

It's been cool to watch the site grow via SEO for the long-tail of API endpoints, currently getting ~1.2k clicks/month from Google.

No commercial plans for the site and I'll open-source it if there's enough interest. Could be a good way to add support for more APIs over time!

Cheers,

Dominic

Retool Workflows is the way to go https://retool.com/products/workflows (see the 4 min demo on their site)

Flexibility to write custom code and alerting logic, but no headache of managing your own infrastructure

Disclaimer: I previously worked at Retool :)

Summarized feedback from our users on the various no-code automations tools that exist. Let me know if there's anything you'd like more details on, I'm dominic@fillout.com

I’ve been looking for a wysiwyg form builder at work

If you're looking for something no-code but more powerful that traditional form builders, check out https://fillout.com/

(disclaimer - I'm one of the founders)

RemixBlocks looks cool, excited to see how it evolves. Our landing page is built with Tailwind and TailwindUI - would be interesting if you could import in an existing project

AI startups have been cropping up left and right in the last few months, spurred by advances from OpenAI, Stability and others. At Fillout.com, we're using AI a bit differently than most - to help with user onboarding. A few people asked me how this works under the hood, so here's a quick overview.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Congrats on the launch! meticulous.ai is great and the team is A+

That's a good point - words/min isn't a great way to measure code typing speed. Right now I use whitespaces to delimit "words" - maybe I should also delimit by parentheses and punctuation? e.g. "Object.create(http.IncomingMessage.prototype)" is a very long word :D

Yes, definitely a joke :D You get a different message depending on the words/min typed

Hey everyone!

This is a (hopefully) fun July 4th weekend project I put together. I shared the site at work and it's led to some fierce competition... the current high score is 70 "words" per minute for JS.

Yes the table editor doesn't work well from mobile devices so we're restricting to larger screen sizes at the moment - we're working on adding mobile support as soon as possible. Thanks for the feedback

Just fixed, thanks for the feedback! Will go out in our next deploy in ~45 min

Hey HN! I’m Dominic, an engineer at Retool, and I'm excited to be sharing this on HN.

I often need to spin up a quick Postgres DB or REST API to test features I’m working on. Seeding these with data can get tedious, especially if I have to duplicate resources across environments. I put together a few quick tools to make this easier, like Import CSV to PostgreSQL (https://retool.com/utilities/write-csv-to-postgres) and Convert CSV to JSON (https://retool.com/utilities/convert-csv-to-json).

All the utilities are freely available at https://retool.com/utilities - this one (https://retool.com/utilities/generate-app-from-csv) is one my favorites which lets you auto-generate a basic CRUD app from a CSV file.

Any feedback, requests for utilities or questions welcome! :)

Hey HN! I’m Dominic, an engineer at Retool, and I'm excited to be sharing this on HN.

I often need to spin up a quick Postgres DB or REST API to test features I’m working on. Seeding these with data can get tedious, especially if I have to duplicate resources across environments. I put together a few quick tools to make this easier, like Import CSV to PostgreSQL (https://retool.com/utilities/write-csv-to-postgres) and Convert CSV to JSON (https://retool.com/utilities/convert-csv-to-json).

All the utilities are freely available at https://retool.com/utilities - here (https://retool.com/utilities/generate-app-from-csv) is one my favorites which lets you auto-generate a basic CRUD app from a CSV file.

Any feedback, requests for utilities or questions welcome! :)