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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. 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

My 5 :
- Elicit AI - mining specific nuggets of information
- ChatGPT especially, but also Claude/Gemini Pro, for coding, QA and brainstorming
- Gmail
- VS Code
- Docker

Mine would be:

  • ChatGPT (I use it way more than I'd like to admit 😂)

  • Notion

  • CapCut

  • Canva

  • Abroad Life (yes, I'm biased 😅, but using our own product every day has helped us spot bugs, improve features, and better understand what our users actually need.)

Couldn't do my job without these.

 Combo is pretty strong here!

 I know! some times is difficult but very happy with my work and these apps 😅

Love how lean everyone keeps these lists!! Mine, as someone who has worn basically every hat at a startup: Claude for thinking out loud and drafting, Notion as the brain that holds everything, Linear so the chaos stays visible, Loom to kill the meetings that should have been a video, and Gmail as my accidental second to-do list. The thread nailed something though: the tools that earn a permanent spot are the ones that quietly disappear, not the ones that turn you into the glue between five tabs. On the recruiting side that lesson hit hardest for me, most tools just add another layer instead of actually removing the busy work.

 I use Gmail the same way :D In the past, WA served that purpose :D

my five
1. slack - work + alerts
2. youtube - podcasts, long form content in the background (doing detox away from short form dopamine hits)
3. claude code - learning, building
4. notion/obisidian - knowledge base

 How are you able to work productively with YT shorts? :D you need to explain that :D

My list leans heavily AI-native at this point:

1. Claude Code — for building and iterating fast on anything code-related

2. n8n — workflow automation backbone, runs locally

3. Telegram — still the best tool for real-time community + async updates in one place

4. Notion — ops docs, content queue, brief storage

5. AIAsset.Market — something we built ourselves: grades AI projects on whether they can actually be operated, transferred, and sold. Turns out most "AI tools" are demos, not assets. Useful when evaluating whether to build something vs. buy it.

Curious if anyone else is starting to think about AI tools not just as tools but as acquirable assets?

 is already fully launched?

As someone balancing development and content creation, my stack needs to be fast and distraction-free. Here is what keeps me running every single day:

  1. VS Code / Cursor – Where all the software development and automated scripting happens.

  2. Qroole QR Generator – Built this because I was tired of bloated QR sites asking for premium subscriptions just to change a link. Now I use it daily for quick asset linking.

  3. ChatGPT / Claude – My ultimate rubber-ducking partners for debugging and content outlines.

  4. Qroole QR Reader – My go-to web tool for scanning QR graphics directly from my desktop screen without picking up my phone.

  5. Google Analytics / Search Console – Can't start or end the day without checking traffic health and indexing status.

Mine, for a SaaS I'm about to launch

1. Claude Code — my actual pair, not autocomplete. I hand it a problem, we argue about the approach, it writes, I review. It caught a race condition in my credit system that I'd have shipped without blinking.

2. Cloudflare Workers — the whole thing runs at the edge, deploy is one command. No server to babysit.

3. Supabase — auth and Postgres without me becoming a DBA at 2am.

4. Serper — live Google SERP data. My SaaS reads the top 10, and this is where the top 10 comes from.

mine's pretty boring honestly - Claude Code for anything that touches actual code, Linear for tracking what I'm supposed to be doing, Slack because that's just how work happens now, a terminal multiplexer so I don't lose sessions when my laptop sleeps, and coffee, which I realize isn't software but it's doing more work than half the apps on this list. curious how many people here have fully replaced a paid tool with an agent doing the same job end to end, versus just using agents alongside the old stack.

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