Before I started working on ToolJet, I had worked with a few enterprise clients as a consultant. Many of these clients were huge enough to build and m

How ToolJet grew from 10 to 2000 stars on GitHub in 3 days

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Before I started working on ToolJet, I had worked with a few enterprise clients as a consultant. Many of these clients were huge enough to build and maintain more than 20 internal tools. Despite the constant requests from sales/support/operations teams to add more features and fix the bugs in their internal tools, engineering teams struggled to find the bandwidth to work on the internal tools.

I tried using a few platforms that can be used to build and maintain internal tools. Most of these tools were very expensive and most of the time the tools didn't fit right in, we needed a few modifications. Also, many of these tools did not support on-premise hosting and self-hosting is something that many companies would prefer.

In March 2021, I was able to sell my side-project ( WanderWhale ) to Saeloun Inc. This gave me enough freedom to work on something full-time for a few months. I then thought about the idea that I had in my mind for a few months now. I found that there are some companies ( like Budibase ) that provide open-source platforms for building internal tools. I could not find any alternatives that are built using Ruby. I am a huge fan of Ruby & JavaScript and so I thought I will build something similar for the Ruby & JavaScript communities.

As someone with limited experience in building frontends, my first challenge was to build proof-of-concept of a drag and drop system using ReactJS. Obviously, the choice of the library was React-DND due to its huge popularity.

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