Final Solution Challenge Update
Thank you to all 78 volunteer community contributors (@Solution-Challenge-Aug23 ) who added at least 1 verified solution to the forum last month!
Below is the final leaderboard of 20 people who contributed 2 or more verified Solutions to the forum during August 1-31, 2023! Thank you @AnsonHwang @ScottR @mbruijnpff @dcartlidge @jocen @Swift @bradlymathews @edurmush @number15 @pyrrho @PatrickMast @bonnyag @bg1900 @27shutterclicks @vinnie @WolfSheep @mdsmith1 @Konstantin_Kiss @Maineac01 @mawdo81 for spending time sharing solutions with other Retool builders here on the forum!
I also want to recognize @edurmush who contributed 4 solutions at the very end of the month between August 29-31 (and 2 more since)! 
Drum roll 
for the top 3 contributors during August:
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Coming in first place, we have @AnsonHwang with 78 verified solutions contributed
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In second place, we have @ScottR with 36 verified solutions contributed
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And in third place, @mbruijnpff with 20 verified solutions contributed
These three contributors share their knowledge from 3 different continents 
and provided a combined verified 134 solutions (!) to questions on the forum, plus many more helpful comments and interactions with fellow builders. Thank you for your time and generous knowledge-sharing! We'll be in touch with you directly and you'll receive your prizes (as described above) soon! @AnsonHwang we hope you enjoy your conversation with David Hsu, our CEO 
You can see the solutions board here on an ongoing basis.
Metrics we achieved together last month:
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More solution contributors: Combining volunteer contributors with Retool employees who contributed at least 1 verified solution, we had 97 total individuals contributing solutions in August, compared to 80 in July and an all time high
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More verified solutions added: Together we added 329 total verified solutions in August, compared to 224 verified solutions added in July. That's a 47% month-over-month increase in solutions added and an all time high, with 105 more solutions added than last month!
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Higher rate of new forum users: we welcomed 482 new user signups in August - an all time high
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Greater daily engagement: 28% increase in daily engaged users, up to 55 in August from 43 in July (number of users that have liked or posted in the past day)
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Greater visibility: 20% increase in page views by logged in + anonymous (not logged in) users, up to an all time monthly high of 364,655 views in August
This is huge, and trending in exciting directions. Thank you all!
A surprise prize: Community Builder
During this challenge, we honed in on recognizing Solutions 
, because one clear Solution to a question here in our public forum can help hundreds or thousands of Retool builders in the future. However, simply the number of solutions contributed is not the only thing we care about on the Forum.
We'd like to additionally recognize @dcartlidge for being an empathetic Community Builder who consistently helps other community members work toward resolution and explore possible approaches. Dave welcomed new users on their first post at least 7 times this month, creating friendly first impressions and useful suggestions, shared workarounds to popular feature requests, and helped other Retool developers learn how to approach a problem rather than only share the answer. Dave's been part of the Retool developer community forum for over 2 years now and we're all lucky to have such a consistent and empathetic contributor here in this space.
Examples of Dave's community-building contributions in support of others' learning:
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Asking for more information quickly after a topic was created in order to keep momentum toward resolution, then sharing a solution the next day. The new forum user that Dave helped in that post (@spatel) then contributed their first solution to knowledge-share on the forum themselves a few weeks later!
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Commenting with a high degree of empathy: In this reply, Dave shared appreciation for types of context (like videos/screenshares) that help community members understand the original poster's question. Dave's answer was clear and thorough, walking through the pro's and con's of several possible approaches to help others understand the "why" of his response. This encourages others to post detailed questions with context, and helps folks learn the thought process that will help them solve problems in the future, not only the specific answer.
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Sharing workarounds to popular feature requests: There's nothing quite like the gift of a good workaround, like this one that Dave shared while also voicing support of other contributors' feature request to support google fonts in the Retool product out-of-the-box
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Responding within hours to new contributors' posts
Thank you @dcartlidge , we appreciate you! We'll reach out to you directly about a prize to say thank you. 
We have many community-builders here in the forum - thank you to all of you for making this space the kind of community we all want to be part of! Shoutout to everyone mentioned up top who was an active contributor before this first solutions challenge. We see you.
We'd love to hear your feedback!
Your friendly neighborhood Retool Community Support Engineers (@Tess @victoria @Kabirdas @joeBumbaca and I) would love to hear your thoughts on how the Solutions Challenge went from your perspective during the month of August, and what else you'd love to see in the forum!
Please fill out this survey form, and share as much or as little as you'd like. Thank you 
