When we first started using Airplane, our small dev team was still running scripts in their terminal shell whenever a new customer had to do a data export. We were never able to prioritize internal tooling against building out new feature work - we were using Django admin, and building UIs was very cumbersome. Enter Airplane. It's not only become a tool our ops and customer-facing teams use every day, it's also become a testing tool for our eng team. It's more than paid for itself in ROI. What we appreciate the most is it is code-first, and very easy to turn a script in Python into a production-grade app with some lines of code. Airplane handles UI, validation, history, approvals, notifications and logging.

Airplane is the closest thing I've seen to a tool that lets my team write code for interactive workflows and automation with zero boilerplate. Almost every line of code I write maps to something user-visible in the interactive experience or business logic. The developer experience, semantics, SDKs and APIs are exceptionally well thought through.

* Simple to set up * Lightweight from an infrastructure POV * Aligned with what we need out of an internal tool - fast, secure, permissioned