When I was building our support chatbot powered by a vectorized DB, I couldn’t actually find a project that helped with syncing Intercom chat data, Discourse community forum data, and web crawling data into a vectorized database. Do you have any suggestions? This was really a “scratch my own itch” product (not something to “generate leads for retool sales”), so genuinely asking out of curiosity! (If there are better products maybe we should kill this project and just recommend people use that instead, haha.)

And no, this is definitely not making money. (It’s free after all, so I guess we’re probably losing money on this.) To be honest, as an engineer @ Retool, I work on things because I think they’re cool and could be useful to our customers… not because it has to make my company money.

Not hating, just asking - thanks for the answer! My personal observation is there are a bunch of llm + vectordb solutions, I agree the other integrations are key, but I think we both know they are tractable problems given sufficient motivation. I've also been following some of the push back on vectordb as the best way to solve this kind of problem. Overall, I was hoping to understand what retool stood to gain with this approach and I got the answer :).