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Swapnil D Puranik

What are some of the best under-the-radar tools that you know of or use?

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I am a sucker of niche tools which are not as popular their other alternatives, but they get the work done just fine, or in some cases even better.
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Jason Joseph
I think @aydin_mirzaee has built an incredible asset for running a business smoothly and getting time back spent in meetings by allowing asynchronous meetings in what I find to have cant live without it status in our SAAS stack in his brilliant Fellow.App for meeting agendas. Simply brilliant. And Id tried other tools like Agenda, but Fellow takes the cake. I think as well known as it is, Grammarly needs to be leaned on more. And a perfect example of a tool less popular than its alternatives but incredible is Dialpad Meetings. Their frictionless method for guests to join is the best out there, and the AI in meetings offering post meeting transcripts that would make Otter jealous, is truly excellent. Also, they have hold music, and while I may be biased because I run a music based nonprofit, I see the smile it puts on everyoe's face. Dialpad Meetings rock. Lastly... there is one that hit my radar earlier today called Switchboard, and I think what they are cooking up has tremendous potential to surpass Dialpad and dare I say it...Zoom.
Swapnil D Puranik
@aydin_mirzaee @jason_joseph1 thanks for sharing these amazing tools, Jason! Besides, Grammarly I hadn't heard or tried other tools - which I will now. 👍
Gastón Fournier
For feature toggles: https://www.getunleash.io I might be biased but we use it internally (dogfooding) and just love it
Matt Kerr
@gaston_fournier LaunchDarkly is slightly better now (2023) but Unleash is open source. Trade offs. Wouldn't think about the cost, you're going to either pay in $ directly or $ indirectly.
Gastón Fournier
@mattdkerr certainly LaunchDarkly has a very good product, but what I really like about Unleash is its focus on privacy and how the system is purpose-built for it. And because it's open source, anyone can validate that it holds to that promise.
Ivar Østhus
Unleash
@gaston_fournier @mattdkerr Unleash also offers a paid offering. Why do you find LD slightly better?
Alfonso J. Matas
I use agileStories to generate epics and automate user stories and acceptance criteria creation, makes my job as a product owner easier ^^
Swapnil D Puranik
@alfonso_matasc Can you share the link? I'd be interested in giving it a spin.
Mateus Furquim
@alfonso_matasc I couldn't find it. I'd love if you could share the link :)
Sindia Höller
Swapnil D Puranik
@alfonso_matasc @mfurquim @sindia thanks for sharing the link Sindia!
Alfonso J. Matas
@mfurquim @sindia @swapdp_01 hey its actually https://agilestories.io , but that one looks great too. I will have a look
Marcin Demkowicz
Part self-promotion/part own-dog food.... Ever since I installed a whiteboard next to my desk, I use ShareTheBoard several times a day. Comes in handy both in meetings and during fitful bouts of individual brainstorming. https://sharetheboard.com
Swapnil D Puranik
@martin_demkowicz WHAAT!! Marcin, this is amazing! My white board is literally gathering dust since going remote. Congratulations for building STB and all the best!
Marcin Demkowicz
@swapdp_01 Dust-filled whiteboard?! Unacceptable! Bring that awesome tool back into your flow! :) Thank you for the kind words. if you can, please take the app out for a spin and let me know your thoughts!
Swapnil D Puranik
@martin_demkowicz You bet! 👍
Marcin Demkowicz
@swapdp_01 Awesome. Thanks in advance!
Steve Hopkins
@martin_demkowicz this is amazing; going to drive it for a week in my virtual leadership coaching academies and see how I do
Aleks Miric
Docu
Surfkey by @johancutych to always find relevant convos on Reddit. Either for growth or even mention monitoring/research.
Swapnil D Puranik
@johancutych @a_m4 great tool for content creators and product folks! bookmarking it for sure. Thanks for the share Aleks!
Michael Müller
I am working on a niche tool for developers: https://semanticdiff.com It is a programming-language aware diff for Visual Studio Code. The extension helps software developers understand code changes faster by hiding style-only changes, detecting moved code blocks as well as refactorings.
Martin Seeler
@mmueller just installed it, and I love it! This makes diffs so clean, thank you!
Swapnil D Puranik
@mmueller neat! All the best for scaling it Michael! I do not see the pricing on the website. You plan to publish once out of beta?
Michael Müller
@swapdp_01 While the extension is in beta, it is free to use. After the release we will switch to a freemium model. The basic functionality will always be free, but certain features and/or programming languages may only be available in a paid version.
Christopher Lee
Vento
https://vento.so/ - Screen recording but you can pause, rewind a few seconds, and re-record over your mistakes/your dog barking. Disclosure I'm the maker :) but it was #3 on Hacker News!
Swapnil D Puranik
@christopher_lee4 this is super-cool Christopher! thanks for sharing and congratulations on the launch!
Anthony Nevo
@christopher_lee4 so cool! Congrats
Renaud Lataguerra
doppio.sh, an api for html to pdf or screenshots, it just works and its cheap with cool features like async render with webhooks
Swapnil D Puranik
@renaudlat Love it! thanks for sharing, Renaud!
Kaitlin Marks
Height
Height for project management! It's a super clean interface that's intuitive to use, but with a ton of powerful + customizable features, too. https://height.app/?home
Greg Stenson
@kaitlin_marks I second this – Height is absolutely fantastic.
Swapnil D Puranik
@kaitlin_marks @gregstenson thanks for sharing, Kaitlin! As it happens that I am scouting for a PM tool which doubles up for customer portal. Giving it a try!
Kaitlin Marks
Height
@swapdp_01 amazing! if you have any questions, i'm happy to set you up on a call with height's customer experience manager (she's a wizard at going over all the things you can do with Height)
Lara Peterson
Love this question and thread - anyone using anything particularly good at mining and management of LinkedIn for b2b growth ?
Arti Villa
@lara_peterson_plllar here are a few tools, I haven't started sales but this is what I plan to try out: https://kennected.org/ (recommended by a Sales rep at a b2b dev tools company I respect) https://www.voilanorbert.com/ (recommended by founder at Tiny.com) to hit up users on linkedIn you know you need to outreach. https://www.salesbricks.com/ (once you need to do customizations) https://www.clay.run/ (this one looks like a gold mine) https://www.folk.app or close.io (if you need to make calls) for CRM In addition, if you need to store all these links from this thread, hand down https://mymind.com/.
knandraina
@lara_peterson_plllar I recommend clay.run too. There is a good review here: https://www.growthtool.co/clays-...
Swapnil D Puranik
@lara_peterson_plllar @artivilla thanks for participating and sharing this golden list!
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