the.com/internal tools
the software your company builds so employees stop begging engineers to run SQL by hand.
means custom apps and dashboards built for employees, not customers, to manage the unglamorous plumbing of a business.
from as companies scaled past spreadsheets, ops teams needed CRUD apps for refunds, inventory, and approvals faster than engineers could hand-code them, spawning an entire industry of low-code builders like Retool.
time sinkengineers spend up to 30% building admin panels
never shippedbuilt for one team, seen by nobody else
low-code boomretool hit multi-billion valuation just for this
ugly by designnobody screenshots them for a portfolio