At LanguageConvo our teachers had to manage their students — send them messages, assign homework, meet them in our online classrooms, view and withdraw their earnings, and much more. Teacher managers were responsible for ensuring their group of teachers were providing students excellent educational experiences; for each of their teachers they would review student feedback, attendance/on-timeness, review and rate video recordings of lessons.

We initially built these internal apps as web applications, but as products like Retool came about, I led the decision to switch these apps over to low-code tools. I have extensive experience in both Retool and UI Bakery. The engineering knowledge required to build quickly and create reliable applications in these tools is fairly junior, once you have your back-end and infrastructure set up.

These tools are fantastic for building internal apps in my opinion, it frees up your engineering team to focus a lot more time on user-facing applications. Junior engineers can learn the drag-and-drop ropes pretty quickly.