Internal All-in-One Platform - All-in-one platform for building internal tools

Hey everyone 👋 I’m Bob, one of the co-founders of Internal. Arisa and I go way back – we’ve built internal tools at companies we’ve worked at together and saw that it’s a huge challenge that companies of all sizes face. After years of working on internal tools, we decided to build Internal to help solve that problem. Whether you work at a startup with 10 people or a massive company with multiple teams under different organizations, we wanted to create a platform that anyone could build on. Instead of teams sacrificing resources or being blocked by limited access to data, Internal enables teams to safely build highly technical tools on top of databases and APIs. We’re excited to be releasing the all-in-one platform and launching on Product Hunt today! We hope you love building with us and can’t wait to hear your feedback. Let us know if you need help getting started!

Hi Product Hunt 👋 Thank you for hunting Internal, @hnshah! I’m Arisa, one of the co-founders of Internal. I’m really excited to share what we’ve been working on with the PH community. IT and engineering teams spend 40% of their time building and maintaining internal tools and workflows, distracting from building products that actually drive business revenue. This results in significant amounts of money and time spent, not to mention the problem of having too many tools to manage. The tradeoff of building and managing these internal tools is development effort towards customer-facing products. This past year, we’ve been working on a new approach to internal tools. We wanted to create an all-in-one platform where people can build all the internal tools (from workflows and automations to custom apps built on top of databases and APIs) and do so collaboratively across the entire organization. Most platforms are designed with one persona in mind. We believe that if teams work together, they can build internal tools even faster. Internal is designed for technical and non-technical teams to build highly technical tools together. Internal is free to use, with no trial period. Create an account to start building internal tools. Here’s what you can do with the Internal all-in-one platform: ⚒️ Design and build apps in a powerful workspace: Spaces is a drag-and-drop interface where you can build custom applications on top of any database and APIs with a wide range of components, without writing any code. 📊 Improve efficiencies in a flexible task system: Queues enable teams to customize details of each step and action, trigger database queries and API calls at any step, and have oversight into the status of every task and workflow distribution. ⚙️ Build and automate multi-step workflows across databases and APIs: Teams can create multi-step automations, schedule recurring jobs, and chain together database queries and API calls. 🧰 Build with custom code: You can write Javascript to manipulate data and add custom logic to your internal tools. Or, you can write SQL to create custom views, execute stored procedures, and more. 🌲 Manage development changes with Source Control Management (SCM): Engineering teams can manage and control changes to Internal apps using source control management providers like GitHub to customize development processes across multiple environments. I’m excited to help you build awesome internal tools and look forward to hearing your feedback!

Awesome work, Internal team! 🎉 Congrats on the launch on Product Hunt! I'd love to learn more about how software houses are using Internal to build internal tools. Could you share some use cases to give us a better understanding? Additionally, what would you say is the most unique feature or detail that Internal offers? Thanks in advance and keep up the amazing work! 🙌

We use Forest at my company - curious how Internal compares. Especially interested in whether apps built with Internal can talk to a local development environment

We've been using Internal.io for years now and are incredibly happy with it. I'm constantly recommending it to others as well. In a startup especially you need to focus on building the product that will drive revenue and so Internal.io let's our product, design and engineering teams focus on building that product. We've easily saved 6 digits worth of money by utilizing Internal instead of building this all ourselves. Everywhere I've worked until we started using Internal we ended up having entire internal engineering teams. Entire salaries and benefits dedicated to what internal.io gives you for a fraction of the cost and you don't ever need to worry about trade offs of internal vs external product development prioritization.

@arisa_amano1 @foobarfighter @jamieliu @mattkauffman @courtney_anders @garyder @andrey_melnikov @justinaeats @bjefferys @mattd_internal Congratulations on the launch! What are your advantages compared to Retool for example?

Great concept! Good luck.

Exciting to see Internal on PH - congrats @arisa_amano1 ! This stat from your blog is totally bonkers and proves the HUGE need for tools like Internal: 94% of IT and Engineering leaders want a more collaborative platform that would enable technical and non-technical users to build faster together Best of luck with the launch!

Internal tools are generally awful -- poorly thought through, poorly designed, terrible performance, etc. Internal looks amazing, not to mention super powerful. It gives me hope that one day, I'll get to use internal tools that don't suck.

Goodluck!