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Hey HN! We are the team at Onelook. Demo: https://demo.onelook.ai/ Blog post: https://medium.com/@onelook/introducing-onelook-a-radical-ne... Onelook allows users to create fully-functional applications by describing them in human language. And by fully-functional we really mean backend included. Think of it as Retool for non-technical people or Copilot to build apps. Existing tools are for technical teams and even Retool, which is a great product, requires setting up connection to databases, write queries, and call REST APIs. We understand it is impossible…

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