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AI · May 21, 2025

Open-source AI Retool, where AI does the tooling

I have been trying to create AI retool where tooling is done via AI, to create full stack apps like internal portals, ERP apps. Which led me to an architecture where we give ai pre build component, tools and let is just do the binding, content generation work to create full stack apps. With this approach in a single prompt AI is able to generate final config jsons using chained/looped agentic llm flow and we render a full stack app with the configs at the end. I have open sourced the whole project whole code, app builder, agentic architecture, backend for you to use. Github:…

Open-source AI Retool, where AI does the tooling launched on May 21, 2025 with 7 votes, #3,816 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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What it does

Most agents on your SaaS can answer questions or make small config changes — but users still struggle to get their first project live. Our onboarding agent sits right inside your product with real tools. It accesses sandboxes, edits code, and does the full implementation based on what each user actually needs. Every user gets set up the way your best engineer would, and you get access to all the issues user face in their setup too.

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I have been trying to create AI retool where tooling is done via AI, to create full stack apps like internal portals, ERP apps. Which led me to an architecture where we give ai pre build component, tools and let is just do the binding, content generation work to create full stack apps. With this approach in a single…

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