How shifting from client work to SaaS changed our daily toolstack (and what stayed)
Hey Product Hunt community!
For years, operating as a software agency meant our team relied heavily on heavy-duty project management and custom workflows to meet client deadlines.
However, moving into building and testing our own Micro-SaaS pipeline forced us to simplify our stack drastically. Speed of execution and real-time user feedback became our top priorities.
Here are 3 core tools that became irreplaceable in our daily product-building workflow:
1. Lovable & Supabase – For rapidly prototyping and building production-ready apps without backend overhead.
2. PostHog – Essential for tracking actual user interaction and feature usage right after launch.
3. Raycast & Notion – Keeping our internal documentation clean and daily execution fast.
Shifting to product mode made us realize that less is truly more when it comes to tools.
I’d love to learn from other makers here:
How has your stack evolved as you transitioned from client work or side projects to full-time product development?
What’s one tool you had to completely drop to stay fast?
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This mirrors our move almost exactly. The heavy project-management stack was the first thing to go for us too — it was built for client deadlines and status reporting, and once you're building for yourself it adds friction instead of removing it. PostHog earning a permanent spot rings true: on client work the client tells you what's broken, but on your own product nobody does unless you make the feedback loop stupidly easy, so that visibility becomes the thing you can't drop. Curious whether Lovable stayed once things got more complex, or if it was mainly a speed play for the early prototyping stage?