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The creators of Mantle were a sponsor at a Shopify event in Paris and showed off what the platform can do. We heard about it just at the right time, and even though it's still in closed beta, it already provides us with lots of value. Taking the data from the Shopify partner dashboard and visualizing it in a useful way, it allows us to learn more about the way our Shopify app is used, installed, how merchants interact with it and why they might not use it.

Gadget is a full-stack, serverless JavaScript platform for web app developers who want to build faster and maintain less. Skip the boilerplate features, repetitive code, and busywork, and get your ideas out the door in hours.

Support is responsive, the tool does what it's supposed to do, the interface is sleek, even though a few creature comforts are missing. However, they keep iterating all the time and it keeps getting better. The prices are a bit higher for the paid plans, but the free tier is generous.

Notion is great for most use-cases regarding notes, structured data and productive systems as well as publishing simple pages publicly. Especially, the amount of integration and recent quality of life features in databases and project management options are great. However, there are some limitations. There is no one tool that can do everything the best. Sometimes it makes more sense to use a specialized tool.

Jumping in, I had a lot of fun with the product. It had just the right features to relieve my workload with everybody asking "When will this be done?", "Is this already on the roadmap?" or one team requesting something, that another team is vetoing. Now they can look it up and discuss between themselves. With the Linear integration, we will keep on top of the programming tasks and the dev team is happy to be left alone for the most part. The support team impressed me the same way Missive's did. They responded, even outside of working hours, in a matter of minutes to bug reports and fixed most of them instantly. The rest was sorted out the next day. Supplying them with feedback & feature requests, I was easily invited to a beta of an upcoming release, which filled the gap with the last missing piece and feature. Super excited to use them more and we already have a meeting on the books to talk in person :)