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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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Here are my Fast 5 🚗💨

  1. Claude / ChatGPT – brainstorming, copywriting, research, and quick prototyping

  2. Figma – where most of my day is spent designing and iterating

  3. Fathom – probably the tool that saves me the most time every week

  4. Reddit – equal parts research and doomscrolling 😅

  5. Crop Photo AI– recently started using it to standardize and resize product images for a Shopify catalog. Saves a surprising amount of manual work.

  1. Claude

  2. Zoom

  3. Slack

  4. Databox

  5. Asana

 How is it working with Asana? Satisfied?

solo founder building TAM Network. my 5:

1. Cursor + Claude Code - the build muscle. 70 percent of code ships through here.

2. Linear - one place to write things down so the work does not evaporate between sessions.

3. Loom - 2-minute videos beat 20-minute meetings every time.

4. Threads - faster signal on what messaging resonates than any analytics tool.

5. Notion - building in public means a public Notion roadmap as the source of truth.

bonus 6: a small group chat with three other solo founders. that one is the moat for staying sane.

 I would say that sometimes the point 6 needs to be point 1 in the priority list :D

  you are not wrong. the weeks it should be point 1 are the ones where the build muscle is fine but the morale muscle is shot. the group chat is the only place you can say 'i am spiraling' and someone hands you a fix instead of a pep talk.

the honest version of the list reorders itself by which muscle is the bottleneck that week.

 Sometimes I need this group of people, too. :)

Interesting how everyone's list is different!

Mine as a founder:

  1. MySpec: turning rough ideas into reviewed, build-ready specifications.

  2. Cursor: building.

  3. Claude: thinking through product decisions and technical trade-offs.

  4. GitHub: shipping.

  5. Linear: planning what's next.

The better the specification, the less time I spend fixing misunderstandings later.

  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

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