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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by dvdhsu on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:28PM (#23163172)
Hey! I'm David, the editor of the post you linked to. If there are any other topics you're interested in learning about, please let me know! We wrote another one on Salesforce (https://retool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/) that was well received on HN too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20277115). We were thinking about writing about Marketo / marketing automation solutions next. (I'm david AT retool.com)

(As an aside — when we started Retool, we ourselves didn't expect the "custom internal tools" to be such a big market. As it turns out, we now have customers that spend $400M+ / year on building custom, homegrown, internal tools! While we [or any single vendor] certainly can't capture all of it, our goal is to capture some percent of it.)

Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by vlucas on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:03PM (#23168289)
I worked at NetSuite for a little over 4.5 years (2 years before the Oracle acquisition), and it also blew my mind how much companies were spending on NetSuite customizations. It's a huge world out there for sure.
Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by joenot443 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @09:58AM (#23166923)
Great article David! Thanks for taking the time to include some screenshots and videos. This is the kind of company-funded-blog-content that we all love to see.
Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by 1cvmask on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:51AM (#23163578)
Where is most of your adoption coming from? Which verticals? Which horizontal groups?
Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by flarg on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:05AM (#23164262)
Did you ever look at pega, nintex and Appian?