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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Hypersonic (https://www.producthunt.com/prod...) extension for Raycast; it connects to Notion DBs for Todos and has a lightning-fast search bar for actions and sorting.
For feature toggles: https://www.getunleash.io I might be biased but we use it internally (dogfooding) and just love it
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@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.
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@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.
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
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@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!
@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!
Surfkey by @johancutych to always find relevant convos on Reddit. Either for growth or even mention monitoring/research.
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@johancutych@a_m4 great tool for content creators and product folks! bookmarking it for sure. Thanks for the share Aleks!
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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.
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@mmueller just installed it, and I love it! This makes diffs so clean, thank you!
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@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?
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@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.
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!
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@christopher_lee4 this is super-cool Christopher! thanks for sharing and congratulations on the launch!
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
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@kaitlin_marks I second this – Height is absolutely fantastic.
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@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!
@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)
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Love this question and thread - anyone using anything particularly good at mining and management of LinkedIn for b2b growth ?
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