What are the 5 tools you simply couldn't do your work without?
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):
Grammarly – proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication
ChatGPT / Claude – mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising
Figma – I can put the basic graphics together quickly.
Translator – sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue
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 – SafeLimit – prevents me from being banned on LinkedIn, so I will not lose my account.]
What are your five?
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1.Claude- brainstorming, writing, starting to build
2.Lovable- prototyping
3.Figma-detailed design
4.Notion-planning
5.Granola-meeting notes
1. Peekads — competitor ad intelligence
across 13 platforms (built it myself)
2. Claude — for writing and thinking
3. Supabase — database for everything
4. Lovable — how I built Peekads without coding
5. Slack — where my autonomous agents
report back to me
Ableton/LumaDeck
Claude/ ChatGpt
Google
NodalDesk
OBS/ Vmix
Tools I genuinely couldn't work without:
1. Claude.ai (Pro) - daily for code, writing, research
2. VS Code + Claude Code - pair programming changed how I ship
3. Linear - solo founder using it for myself, weirdly effective
4. Notion - every blog draft, every spec, every note
5. Cloudflare Pages - free hosting that's actually fast
Honorable mention: my journal. Not a tool, but the thing I'd lose first if you took it away.
It's hard to pick just 5, but here are mine:
ChatGPT / Claude - help in coding + generating images with gpt
Figma - design of complex projects and UIs
Canva - quick infographics, design sketches
Notion - track all tasks
Telegram - chat, follow news
Claude
ChatGPT
Canva
Google Gemini AI Studio
Whatsapp
mine are :
Cursor
Autosend
Gmail
ChatGPT
OnchainStack
Mine changes a bit depending on what I'm working on, but these are the ones I use the most right now:
1) ChatGPT - brainstorming, research, and helping me get past a blank page faster.
2) Gmail - still where most conversations, reminders, and random notes end up.
3) Google Drive - for sharing files and keeping project documents organized.
4) All Cloud Hub - I have files spread across multiple cloud accounts, so having everything searchable from one place saves me from checking Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive separately.
5) Figma - quick mockups, screenshots, and simple design work without needing a full design workflow.
memi
Mine right now are Figma, Claude, Codex, Linear, and Product Hunt. Slightly biased because we launched Memi today, but I keep coming back to the same pattern: the best tools shorten the gap between taste and execution.
my 5 (lots of Anthropic in there)
- Claude: to draft reports, meeting summaries, prepare meetings, pre-write emails. I added lots of skills so that I can just dump my notes and it knows what to do.
- Claude Code: my job is mainly to dev, and since I started using AI to help me with coding, I don't think I can go back. It makes everything far faster. It mainly handles all the boilerplating for me.
- Claude Design: I have to do sales work on the side of coding. Since I am not fully certain what I am doing and my presentations are not the best, this really helped a lot.
- Slack: whatever chat app to be honest, but we work a lot async, so everything happens there.
- Proton Pass: might be a weird one, but we use shared vaults to share API keys when developing. Also I often need to create lots of accounts to test APIs and all, so it is pretty great to have a tool to hide my identity and save my secrets.