This myth is pedalled strongly in the recent documentary Kiss the Ground (on Netflix) with Woody Harrelson. It seems that this is Big Ag’s latest attempt to explain why meat eating can be good. It is the only documentary you’ll see about climate change that makes you feel “this is probably going to be OK” which I don’t think is the right sentiment.

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1. Retool targets developers who want to build internal tools faster. Stacker is for business users who aren’t technical. The output might be similar but the audience is different.

2. Yes so the third party SaaS data we are bringing in will appear just like the data from your spreadsheet.

3. We’ve definitely found these users and the vast majority of our customers aren’t technical. We’ve simplified the creation of an app so once you finish onboarding you have a working app, from there it is tweaks to make it the app you need. This makes the process much more approachable for non technical users.

To clarify: all the apps include 500 users as standard so most customers only pay a flat rate per app.

I would agree that the phrase “Pricing is per app, not per user” comes off as disingenuous. It may be true that most customers’ apps won’t reach 500 users, but I would expect that many customers aim or even expect to reach that level and find the small print contradictory. I would count myself in that category

I'm Sam, co-founder of Stacker. Since we launched on HN last summer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24037118) and the batch ended, we've grown to be used in over 500 companies.

One of the key things we've realised from our customers that they've got a lot more data that what sits in their Airtable or Google Sheets. They all also use numerous SaaS tools that master different parts of their organizations' data: things like Stripe, Hubspot, Xero, Quickbooks and many more. They also sometimes have a production SQL database that contains critical customer information.

So we've been focused on expanding our product so we can incorporate more of our customers data and will be adding new data connectors through this quarter: we're starting with SQL, Stripe and Intercom. We want to enable anyone to snap their data together across whichever systems its stored in, and then create the most productive interface for them on top of it.

May I ask if you attribute your success to the "no code" movement/idea.

Yes I’d say it’s definitely helped us. The “no code” movement has enabled more people who’ve never contemplated being able to create software start to realise it’s readily possible for them.

Stacker (YC S20) | FULL-TIME | REMOTE ONLY (limited to Europe!) . We're on a mission to let anyone create software. We want to change the way software is built. That's a pretty big task, and we've got some exciting problems:

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If you're a PRODUCT-FOCUSED ENGINEER, come and talk to us about how we're building a platform that lets us run rich, flexible apps built without fully code.

You'll be creating a React-based app editor that lets users create software through their browser.

You'll be building a Python-based backend that can connect to any data source, and simulate running complex data processes.

You'll taking ideas from programming language design and turning them into flexible functionality that can be used by non-programmers.

You'll be shipping new modules daily, which are used immediately by our users to make their apps work better and do more.

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If you're a MULTI-SKILLED PRODUCT DESIGNER (UI+UX+Product), come and help us design a modular product that empowers non-developers to build the software they need.

You'll be creating a flexible design system that we can be customized by the user and still look great.

You'll be taking common web features like news feed and messaging, and stripping them down to their most pure form so they work in any app.

You'll be designing a set of modules that let non-technical users feel empowered and able to create amazing, innovative apps.

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We're recently funded, and are a fully remote team, but (pandemic permitting) we get together every few months.

We believe in Radical Transparency, being Empathetic and Kind and Making a Dent in the Universe.

Apply at https://static.stacker.app/hiring . Again, hiring within Europe, and as always, no recruiters ;)

This is really cool! I’ll definitely take a look at this and maybe fork it when we get onto looking at native apps.

We have built a web app (https://stacker.app) for people who want to use an Airtable backend.

Hi davyson - is Staker responsive on mobile?

Nice! I'll check Stacker out!

AppSheet apps almost exclusively target mobile users + often for external parties. Toga has desktop and mobile experiences and is primarily designed for internal teams.

Yep... that was our hack to make the demo apps work without passwords. Quick and dirty... but quick.

I would recommend not “hacking” something like this and publically admitting it on HN. Pretty much made me distrust all of your work if you are going to take shortcuts like this that expose your API key. Adding a “taking the time to fix this now” probably would have been sufficient for me to think differently.

Thank you, we will fix.

Glide is really great at making utility mobile apps on Google Sheets. We see Toga as being used more for your business system, so Toga works in desktop and mobile and has the really fine grained permissions needed to make business systems work.

You're absolutely right. We were just trying to illustrate what "Spreadsheet Hell" is like when you use Google Sheets as a big connected system.