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What are the 5 tools you simply couldn't do your work without?

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This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

  1. Grammarly – proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

  2. ChatGPT / Claude – mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

  3. Figma – I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

  4. Translator – sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

  5. Gmail – and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts

[and soon one more that I am working on – – prevents me from being banned on LinkedIn, so I will not lose my account.]

What are your five?

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  1. Directory Opus - Windows

  2. M365 / Proton - Email / Office

  3. VS Code / NeoVim - Making stuff

  4. Todoist / Linear - Tasks

  5. Obsidian - Tracking stuff

my 5:

  1. Claude - I use it for kinda everything

  2. Dotient - easily helps me find my files

  3. Figma - Im a designer so obviously

  4. Zed - its the #1 IDE that I use for coding my app

  5. Adobe After Effects - I do a lot of motion graphics as well

 I think that I caught your launch. and I liked the product! :)



Good list! The translator one is underrated, honestly.

Mine, from the 3D, XR & AI side:

• Claude: Research synthesis, writing, and thinking through ideas.
• Figma: Fast mockups before anything gets built.
• Notion: My second brain. Every idea goes here, or it's gone.
• Loom: Async demos beat 30-minute calls most of the time.
• VersaAI: Turns text and images into production-ready 3D assets. (Slightly biased, we built it. 😄)

 I like that you did something for 3D, for now, only Blender could do it :D

  1. Google 🖥️

  2. Android Studio 🤖

  3. Postman 🛜

  4. Slack 💬

  5. Spotify (focus music is a necessity) 🎶

 Spotify is cool, but I am an YouTube music person :D

Here are my 5 (I couldn’t function without them):

  1. Cloudflare – DNS, CDN, security, Workers… it quietly runs everything behind the scenes

  2. VS Code – my daily driver for writing and debugging code; the extensions ecosystem is unmatched

  3. GitHub – version control, CI/CD, collaboration — the whole dev workflow lives here

  4. ZinTrust – zero-dependency TypeScript framework for building fast backends and APIs. Clean architecture without the bloat

  5. ChatGPT / Claude / DeepSeek – I rotate between all three depending on the task. Brainstorming, debugging, drafting, research — can’t pick just one anymore

 you are probably a dev! :D

 Yes 100%

My top 5 daily tool chest:

  1. Claude and especially Claude Design

  2. Cursor (you'd be surprised what it's capable of beyond coding eg research, testing etc)

  3. Granola (just works)

  4. Gifski

  5. Easy Scribe

Extra mention: Open Claw

 For what occasion do you use Gifski? :D

And now Cursor for iOS 👏

 I haven't tried it yet tbh :D

As a solo founder, my five:

  • Claude Code, it writes most of my product now and I mostly steer.

  • Railway, deploy on git push with zero DevOps.

  • Stripe, billing that just works.

  • Cloudflare, DNS and proxy in front of everything.

  • A plain notes file where every decision and gotcha lives, so I never re-solve the same thing twice. The first two genuinely changed how much one person can ship.

 The last one is the most hitting :) WIthout notes, no any other project would work :)

 Hey Nika, appreciate you taking the time to reply. Claude Code has genuinely changed what one person can ship solo, it is wild watching it hold the whole repo in its head and fix what breaks. The plain notes file is the unsung hero though: it gives me a clear view of what is done and what is still open, which is what keeps a solo build from getting away from me. Really value the community you are building here on PH. I am launching SiftFirst (explainable resume screening for small teams) on the 15th, and the way you connect makers and encourage genuine feedback is exactly the kind of presence I want to build. Grateful to be learning from how you do it. Looking forward to staying connected. Thanks again for the thoughtful reply.

 Please, ping me then :)

  1. Gmail

  2. Calendly

  3. Claude Code

  4. Google Docs & Sheets

  5. VS Code

 All the cool stuff I am using too :D

  1. Lovable

  2. Vorda (Google review manager)

  3. Claude

  4. Manus

  5. Gmail

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