First-time poster, long-time Retool fan - help me pick next week’s build?

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Hey folks - first-time poster here, long-time Retool fan.
Some of you might recognize my name from the Retool x Weavy Hackathon (I’m one of the founders behind Weavy — we build drop-in components like chat, file sharing, and AI copilots for internal tools).

I’m doing something new this year: I challenged myself to build something completely new every week, live and in public.
45 minutes a day. One idea. Four or five days to ship it.
It’s part of a "build in public" challenge I’m doing to see what’s actually possible with the tools we all use — Retool included.

And yeah… it’s hard. But it’s also the most fun I’ve had in years.

I film it live — so you get everything.
The mistakes. The debugging. The sudden dog barks.
Even the occasional kid wandering in mid-sentence.
It’s messy, but it’s real.

So here's the ask:
I'm planning next week’s project and want your input. Two ideas I’m kicking around (both using Retool at the core):

Option 1: Internal Bug Tracker + AI Summarizer
Pull in bugs from GitHub or Linear, cluster them, and let agents help prioritize, summarize, and even nudge the team.

Option 2: AI-powered Release Notes Generator
Grab commits, tag them smartly, and auto-generate human-readable release notes — with light editing + publishing flow.

Would love to hear from you:

Which one would actually be useful in your world?

Or got a better idea that someone should finally just build in Retool? Throw it at me.

I’ll kick things off Monday and post updates in this thread each day — good, bad, or unfinished. If nothing else, maybe it’ll give you a nudge for your own next experiment.

Catch up on the last few builds:

:file_folder:Week 1 – Chrome Extension with knowledge agents
:open_file_folder:Week 2 – Appsmith data room with contextual AI chat
:speech_balloon: Week 3 (this week) – v0 + Weavy for an AI-powered group chat

Not trying to sell anything. Just building stuff in public and hoping it’s useful — or at least entertaining — to fellow builders.

Appreciate the thoughts — see you Monday.

— Rickard
(built-in-public, powered-by-coffee)

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Option one for me, but I am biased

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Hi @Rickard_Hansson

Love the spirit, I also thought to do the same from time to time...

Keep it up!

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Option b.

I've been enjoying your posts @Rickard_Hansson, keep it going! I got into Custom components in retool a couple of weeks ago and I built two now of which I'm quite pleased, I will be sharing this in the forum in the following weeks

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Thanks for the feedback @abusedmedia and @MiguelOrtiz - still contemplating what to build.

If this comment get some reach I would love to take on the challenge to enhance an existing app with collaborative / contextual AI.

This is a chance to get some pro help with any app for free, and more fun for me working with some real instead of hypothetical.

Anyone? Throw it at me and if we agree you can either clone an app and share or invite me as a co creator and we go from there.

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Well.... if you're offering. I'm currently in the thought process of how to build a component that is able to generate mermaid charts based on user inputs, which can be excel files, pictures, or other type of input which can be interpreted to make a chart (in my specific use case I'll be focusing on org charts, but this could be super helpful for other type of use cases).

I think what I haven't seen is the option to interact with elements of the chart.... So if the llm generates a super org chart but gets one hierarchy wrong, Iwouldn't want the user to add another prompt where the llm needs to g othrouhg everything, risking to undo the process altogether....

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Love to support you in this - I think Klas is better though, he’s the one that knows custom components. Let’s hook it up.

I was more thinking a whole app - you have something ”laying around” I can fork and take a stab at? :wink:

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Option B.

If you do this, I'd love to see not just initial notes, but at least some work on a smart delta what takes the previous release notes into account and summarizes only the changes.