March Challenge - Retool Madness

[joeBumbaca]

For our next Retool Developer Community challenge, we’ll set up a few tasks for you to complete and share your results with the community! If you’re a seasoned Retool user, this is your chance to wow your fellow builders with how cleverly and uniquely you use the product. Like buzzer beaters raining down from the logo, we know you are using Retool in ways that are truly amazing! If you are new to Retool, this is your chance to explore some different areas of the product that you might not have used before and build up your technical skills. Caitlin Clark wouldn’t be the NCAA all-time scoring leader without learning how to do a simple lay-up first!

How it works:

Each Monday during the month of March we’ll post a skills challenge for the week. Complete the challenge during that week, and share your results on the Forum!

Every task will come with its own special badge for your Forum profile which will be revealed at the beginning of each week. Collect 1 or collect them all! All submissions that meet the challenge submission criteria are accepted! Whether you are a top-seeded conference champ, or trying to make your Cinderella story come true, at the end of the month you’ll all be winners in our book!!

What to share:

In order to receive the weekly badge for your submission, please share a walkthrough with screenshots detailing how you completed the task in the Community Show & Tell category. Reference the specific resources/services you’re using, with relevant links to docs, etc. This will all help other users follow along and learn a thing or two going forward!

Importantly, we also want to learn about the Use Case and Business Value that your completed task solves. Other builders are most certainly facing the same issues, and your solution can be an inspiration to many!

Be sure to tag your post with retool-madness so we can track, highlight, and share your posts with everyone!

If you are looking for guidance with the challenge for the week, stop by our office hours and we can help out!

Week 1: Swish –

We’re kicking this challenge off today! So here’s your task for the week. Complete this and share your results in Community Show & Tell with the retool-madness tag to earn the Swish badge!

Trigger a workflow from inside an app, manipulate the data in some meaningful way, and return results back into the app itself.

Workflows can be a great way to have some longer processes run in the background, and with the response block, that data can be returned for use in the app! Looking forward to seeing all the cool ways you are sending and receiving data back and forth from app to workflow and vice versa!

[joeBumbaca]

Hey everyone! Just wanted to give an update on the March challenge .

Office Hours:

Remember to swing by office hours if you would like some guidance on how to complete the challenge that you are working on!

Workflows Resources:

If you’re looking to get started, but haven’t used Workflows before, check out our docs!
Or check out the blog we posted when we introduced Workflows to the world .

Week 2 Challenge Announcement:

And now, the reason you are all here! The answer to the question: “How do I earn the sweet Slam-Dunk badge?”

Utilize Retool Forms to save data gathered from your users to your Retool Database. Bonus points for sharing how you are analyzing and using that data in your apps.

As usual, complete this and share your results in Community Show & Tell with the retool-madness tag to earn the Slam-Dunk badge! We would love to see how you are setting up your form and utilizing the data. Links, screenshots etc will all help other users follow along and learn a thing or two going forward!

And don’t fret, you also still have time to submit your workflow for the week 1 Swish badge! Submissions for each week are accepted all month. Need inspiration? Check out @khill-fbmc’s post!

Looking forward to seeing all the cool submissions!

[Tess]

March Challenge Week3 Update

Just wanted to give everyone another update on the March Challenge!

Office Hours:

We are still hosting office hours for any guidance you need for your Challenge submissions!

Remember that you can submit a post for any prior week as well to earn the badge!

For inspiration on the Week 1 (“swish”) challenge, check out @Rashmika_Lakshan’s post! For more general workflows ideas, this Youtube video also shows how to leverage AI to help you create a workflow in Retool, using daily weather updates as an example and here’s another YouTube video from the same Retool builder with an emoji app example

For inspiration on the Week 2 (“slam dunk”) challenge, check out the recording of our Developer Day event (we go through Retool Forms at ~21:34, integrated with Workflows & AI)

Week 3 Challenge:

And now for the next step in this month’s challenge! Here’s your opportunity to receive the Jumper badge!

Show us all the cool ways you are using Retool Storage in your apps. PDFs, PNGs etc, we know you’re storing them and would love to see how it’s helping your business!

Here are some docs to help get you started! Our team also just announced a new public url feature for Retool Storage; check out the announcement here

As usual, complete challenge and share your results in Community Show & Tell with the retool-madness tag to earn the Jumper badge! Links, screenshots etc will all help other users follow along and learn a thing or two going forward!

[joeBumbaca]

It's that time! The final update for the Retool Madness - March Challenge.

Office Hours:

We are still hosting office hours for any guidance you need for your Challenge submissions!

Remember that you can submit a post for any prior week as well to earn the badge!

If you are still looking for ideas, we've had a few new submissions that you can check out! @Rashmika_Lakshan and @Harsha_Wijesooriya have been heating up lately with a Hotel Reservation Management, and Real Estate Management System

For week 4 of the challenge, we are introducing the Contested badge!

We know you are all solving hard business problems with Retool. Every attempt isn't a Slam-Dunk, and sometimes you have to fight through resistance. Retool's component library doesn't always fit exactly what you need and the use of Custom Components is the only way to go.

Show us how you are using Custom Components in your apps! What libraries do you find most useful? How are you passing data back and forth between the app and component? Links, screenshots etc will all help other users follow along and learn a thing or two going forward! Please complete this and share your results in Community Show & Tell with the retool-madness tag.

Have a great week everyone!

[joeBumbaca]

Hey Everyone! Just wanted to thank all the participants of the March 'Retool Madness' Challenge. We really enjoyed seeing the creative ways you are all using the product!

If you didn't get a chance to submit a Community Show & Tell post during the month of March, no worries! Simply tag your post with retool-madness and I'll make sure to get you the appropriate badge. These weekly tasks are suited for Retool novices and experts alike, and hopefully you learned, or will learn, something along the way!

We run these challenges to help facilitate learning and to keep our forum as full of useful information as possible. As always if you have any thoughts or feedback on the challenges, we would love to hear it. Also, check out the new April challenge announcement!

Separate from the challenge, we also want to recognize a March Community Builder. @jg80 has been on absolute fire this month! They've helped on a wide variety of issues, and contributed to this community with well thought out, informative, empathetic posts like this!!! Thank you so much @jg80, for keeping the spirit of this community vibrant while up-leveling your peers!

Thanks again and happy building!!

[jg80]

just giving back to a community that helped get me started, thanks for the shout out!