Retroly

Retroly was a SaaS retrospective tool I co-founded with Biyi Adetunji to make sprint retros actually useful — whether the team was in the same room or spread across time zones. I built both the Angular frontend and the Node.js/Express backend from scratch. We launched on Product Hunt in December 2019, ranked #2 for the day, and hit 161 upvotes.

Retroly covered the full retrospective lifecycle: a facilitator creates a board, members add feedback cards anonymously or named, and the session moves through four guided stages — feedback, grouping, voting, and resolution. Cards could be merged when themes overlapped, voted on with configurable limits, and discussed in threaded comments. Real-time collaboration ran over WebSocket so everyone saw updates instantly. The full session could be exported to PDF or Excel at the end.

Retroly found users we didn't expect. France became our largest market — about 60% of daily active users — followed by the UK, US, Germany, and Canada. Retroly ran a free tier (one board, two teams, five members) and a $10/month Pro plan enforced via Stripe subscriptions and API-level middleware. It was at a Lagos co-working space in 2019, while building Retroly, that I first met Lanre Adelowo — a conversation that eventually led to Fluidcoins. Retroly is no longer actively maintained.