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For the past year, we have been working on reimagining how we present Retool to the world. Today we are sharing a new chapter of a work forever in progress. Our ode to good software. Our dedication to you. Software should be good. Too often, it isn’t. What if we stopped treating it like just a tool and started understanding software as vision, strategy, execution, technology, and design—conceived, compiled, and delivered for and by people? What if we acknowledged it as a choose-your-own-adventure story that yields deterministic outputs in pliable, fallible, tangible human environments? Maybe we can—maybe we should. That brings us to today. Retool aims to provide developers the building blocks to more quickly, easily, and intuitively build good software. We believe that a future with more software, and, importantly, better software, leads to progress on myriad scales and stands to benefit everyone. Good software, though, is not yet a default. It comes downstream of builders having time

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