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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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Love this thread idea !
Here are the ones I actually can't live without:

1. Claude Code - This is where everything starts. My whole workflow spins out from here.

2. Figma - Straight from Claude Code I spin up design systems, FigJams, whatever it takes to actually collaborate with marketing and dev.

3. Notion - Obsessed. Prioritize sprints, build roadmaps that anyone can read, and back it all with databases. Best collaborative tool out there.

4. - My secret weapon for interactive screenshots. I drop clients right inside the app so they get it instantly, plus killer GIFs and ready-to-ship product updates in minutes with proper usecases.

5. Granola - Never losing a conversation again. Clients, team brainstorms, weeklies, dailies, it's all captured.


Everything I build funnels into the app I am working on with a whole team called .
And btw, we're launching soon on PH, if you're into GEO/SEO and want to see it in action, let's connect !

I'd love to give you free early access and hear what you think 😊

I am a developer so my tools are:

Claude Code CLI
IntelliJ
Apple Notes
DBeaver

 I know only 2 of them, need to do the research of the rest :D

Mine, as someone who ships products for a living:

  1. Cursor - where the work actually happens. Agents + full codebase context beat bouncing between chat tabs and an IDE.

  2. Claude / ChatGPT - the thinking layer. Brainstorming, ripping apart bad ideas, and rewriting copy until it stops sounding like a pitch deck.

  3. Google Sheets - boring and undefeated. Launch tracking, pricing experiments, outreach lists, random metrics. Notion looks nicer; Sheets gets opened.

  4. (built it) - my SaaS boilerplate. Auth, Stripe, security. Every new product starts here so I’m not rebuilding the same scaffolding from scratch.

  5. (also mine) - keeps shipping cadence visible when everything else is chaos. Simple accountability, hard to fake.

Honorable mention: for blind feature ranking before I write a single line of code. Saved me from more than one overbuilt MVP.

Curious how many people have “tool I built for myself” in their top 5 vs a purely bought stack.

Here are 5 tools without which i can't function

1. WorkElate - my end to end office suite ( alternative of MS Office / G-Suite ) all AI native
2. Perplexity - for deep research and learning
3. Claude - for product development and marketing
4. Wisperflow - for ease of typing
5. Product Hunt :) and

   Product Hunt is one of my fave too :)

My top five tools for my work are:

  1. ChatGPT Codex – My primary coding assistant for writing, debugging, and improving code.

  2. AuraManager – Helps me organize and refine my ideas into clear, actionable plans.

  3. Canva – Makes it easy to create presentations, graphics, and other design materials quickly.

  4. YouTube Music – Helps me stay focused and maintain a productive workflow.

  5. Gmail – Keeps me updated on important emails, opportunities, and new deals.

These are the tools I use most frequently, but they're only a small part of my toolkit. I also use many other tools across different industries and workflows depending on the project I'm working on.

As an agency founder and SEO specialist, my day revolves around technical performance, content optimization, and client delivery. Here are my 5 non-negotiables:

  1. Google PageSpeed Insights / Lighthouse – Critical for analyzing Core Web Vitals before and after launching any site.

  2. Screaming Frog / Ahrefs – Essential for deep technical SEO audits, finding crawl errors, and site architecture analysis.

  3. ChatGPT / Claude – For fast brainstorming, structuring schemas, drafting meta tags, and code debugging.

  4. Figma – Perfect for quickly visualizing layouts and wireframing before diving into WordPress or custom code.

  5. Search Console – My daily dashboard to monitor organic performance, indexing, and search impressions.

At , these tools keep our dev and SEO workflow fast and data-driven!

 Cool, I think you could contribute to SEO topics on Product Hunt Discussions, those are very needed in the era of LLMs

My 5 would be:
1. iTerm + oh my zsh - Most of my work is done here. For layout I'm using fino-time mainly.
2. Supabase - Tbh I've been thinking about self hosting, but it's such a cheap and well maintained product that I've kept posting the migration for our team for a year already.
3. Claude - For obvious reasons. The new design tool is very powerful, just like Fable.
4. Telegram - Most comms in and out of the team are in here.
5. Google docs - Perfect environment for collaborative docs.

Probably 90% of my time is spent on these 5 tools.

 Why did you decide for Claude over ChatGPT? :)

 I was using ChatGPT earlier, but Claude's performance was just clearly better with Opus 4.8. Switched and haven't looked back since.

Nowadays, I see Kimi 3 being a worthy competitor with about 40% cheaper tokens. So might switch to that in the future.

My 5:

  1. Claude

  2. Canva

  3. Figma

  4. VEED

  5. Fireflies

But what am i missing? What should i add to a growth marketing stack?

 I would recommend CapCut to create short videos :)

being a product designer in this AI era

  1. wispr flow to type my things quickly

  1. Figma because I am a designer. The most basic things that I still need are:

  2. Claude and ChatGPT for thinking quickly, brainstorming, summarising,

  3. RecallFox to learn new things and then remember them later, so with AI I don't loose my brain cells

  4. Granola for meeting notes because it's so simple and so easy that I keep on using that.

  5. for adding videos, because being a designer, I usually create interactions and share that with my team.

  6. Raycast comes into play for ease.

    Definitely not five, but these are the apps that I definitely install the moment I start using Mac.

 I can see that you stand for Bhava. How this one is present in your workflow? :)

 Bhava is a tool that I worked on but it doesn't actually stand in every single day's use case for me. It stands out when I have to draw diagrams, when I'm planning architecture and systems. In those cases it is super helpful but that's the thing which you do probably once in a week not every single day

 are you about to build something new then? :)

Totally agree!! LinkedIn ban-prevention tools are seriously underrated. Most people obsess over content and copy, but the actual automation/outreach layer is where accounts get flagged, and there's surprisingly little built specifically for that. For anyone doing outbound or lead gen on LinkedIn, this feels like infrastructure, not a nice-to-have. Following SafeLimit's progress!

 Thank you! Are we connected on X or LinkedIn tho?

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