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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My current five would be:
1. ChatGPT / Claude for thinking through strategy, copy, and product decisions
2. Product Hunt for watching what builders actually respond to
3. LinkedIn for B2B context and relationship-building
4. Notion or Google Docs for turning scattered thoughts into operating notes
5. Calendar/email tools, because most business execution still dies in follow-up
The bigger pattern for me is that tools only matter if they reduce the gap between insight and action. That is also how I think about AI employees: they should not just generate output; they should help move a workflow forward with the right handoff points.
mine are
claude/chatgpt
notion
capcut
Data Scraper Extension
n8n
My 5 Apps are:
1 - Raycast
2 - VSCode
3 - Wender
4 - Figma
5 - Gmail
my 5 as someone working in vc:
claude/chat gpt-brainstorming, generating slides, word documents, etc.
canva-design in collab
1752 pitch analyzer-evaluate and refine pitchbooks
gmail-communication
rocketreach-find outreach
My top 5 would be
- Figma
- Zoom
- Fathom
- Chrome
- Takivo
Obsidian - this is my personal command center for both mundane stuff, projects and creative endeavors
ChatGPT - no surprise here, I use it for brainstorming and also simple automations like getting and sorting invoices from email
Codex/Claude Code/Cursor - I use them interchangeably
Railway - my go-to deployment platform
Google sheets and docs
claude
obsidian
cursor
signal
slack
Propane
Cleanmymac is also a life saver
For both my former job and now that I've started my own company, here are my 5:
Github
Claude/ChatGPT
Cursor IDE
Testflight
And Finally, I wouldn't get anything done if it wasn't for Spotify!
I know that Spotify might seem like an odd choice, but honestly. How many of us listen to music while working?
Loomal
@nika haha which one made the cut from my stack? PostHog is 100% worth revisiting — they've shipped so much in the last year (web analytics, session replay, feature flags all in one). What does your current setup look like?