minijohn

Building Ops & Martech stacks @stackdropHQ ~ Growth Engineer ~ full-stack dev ~ build fast, fix later ~ I've flown 7 times around 🌍 #nocap

[minijohn @theminijohn]

Are your internal tools making your teams faster – or just busier?

We often assume that building a dashboard or automating a workflow automatically unlocks productivity. In reality, many mid-sized and enterprise organisations are stuck with homegrown tools that create as much friction as they solve. I see internal products sprawling, handoffs increasing, and operational complexity growing faster than capability.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: speed isn’t simply about shipping more features. It’s about ruthless prioritisation, rapid prototyping, and empowering ops leaders to own solutions, without waiting for their ticket in the dev queue. When Product Managers and Data Engineers get their hands on intuitive low-code platforms, suddenly IT bottlenecks aren’t the only way forward.

Ask yourself: where are your internal tools slowing you down? What would happen if your ops team could ship updates daily, without developer intervention? That’s where transformation really begins.

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[minijohn @theminijohn]

@levelsio Ok, didn't see that coming.

[minijohn @theminijohn]

Ever needed query error monitoring for your @retool apps? I've written up a small guide on how to efficiently handle this https://t.co/sMAQP0x940 ✌️

[minijohn @theminijohn]

@thisdickie @Joe__Dempsey Hmm weird, yeah 1st gen. Try another adapter would be my first guess :p

[minijohn @theminijohn]

@Joe__Dempsey @thisdickie Exactly, I'm using a generic USB-C to HDMI adapter, works perfectly for me.

[minijohn @theminijohn]

This can't be real right? :p

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

How can this be real?

[minijohn @theminijohn]

I feel I have been living under a rock. I just found out about @retool's -> cmd/ctrl + ` debug console and it gave life a new meaning 🤯

Try it on any dashboard. CTRL + ` (backtick). Depending on your app's size it'll take a few secs to load

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[minijohn @theminijohn]

Am building a changelog service completely powered by @NotionHQ. Insane how many people use #notion to build parts or even their whole website 🥳

Running or thinking of starting a changelog and would love to be able to do it from within notion? PM me for an invite :)

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

How to grow: say yes to things you cannot do.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Long game. Quiet mind. Simple life.

[minijohn @theminijohn]

@ash_lmb @arvidkahl Just love it, it’s so cute!!

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

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[minijohn @theminijohn]

4.) Caching 📝 If you know data from this endpoint is not going to change frequently, cache it. Huge improvement gains! Fragment-aching moved the needle the most for me.

[minijohn @theminijohn]

What's the highest amount of queries you ever handled in a @retool app and how did/do you manage performance? #retool

I'll go first 🧵 👇

[minijohn @theminijohn]

3.) Callbacks 🤙 Most of the times, one action triggers additional logic/processes that need to run. I didn't want these queries to block the UI so every critical query triggers a callback that then triggers other queries as needed