swman

Note, we haven't established anything on paper yet, and we have no customers. I'm still building the product, and I've done maybe 95% of the work on the product so far.

A friend was interested in working with me and since I was working on it alone I thought sure you can join me. I thought he was on the same page in terms of the problem I'm trying to solve.

Since then he did some work, but he just doesn't show the level of enthusiasm I'm expecting of someone who wants to be a co-founder. I have to keep asking him to do stuff, and basically push him to do anything. The one thing I do like is that I can talk out the issues I'm facing with him, but I'd prefer someone who can do work as well.

I feel like this is not going to work out, and I think I might have to ask him this week if he's actually willing to do things on his own because otherwise it might be best for us to not work together.

Is there something I can do to try and change the dynamic or maybe encourage him, or is this just not worth it and I should nip it in the bud sooner than later?

Hey folks, I must be the wrong audience for a tool like Retool but after showing it to my friend who isn't technical, I still don't understand who this tool is for.

My friend didn't have a clue looking at the UI what to do.

Looking at them work, it was clear they had to know a little beyond the basics of databases, javascript, and html/css to even make sense what they were looking at.

As for me, I knew what was going on but then I was thinking why would I ever use this as someone that is experienced full stack SWE.

Personally it reminds me a lot of Notion. It is pretty approachable for nerds like me but I have never seen anyone else use any of the power features like databases or all the cool pivot type views that are possible. I have a handful of friends who use it and they say they just use it for notes, which is fine but that's like 10% of its usecases.

So... is anyone actually using Retool or similar tools for something meaningful? And what are you doing with it if I may ask?