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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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Solo founder building a social platform — here are my 5:

  1. Figma — for all UI/UX design work, no way around it

  2. 2. Claude — brainstorming, code review, and writing copy

  3. 3. Notion — product roadmap, feature specs, and thinking out loud

  4. 4. Linear — tracking what actually needs to ship this week

  5. 5. Strava + 4 other fitness/social apps I'm trying to replace with Maleu (the life OS I'm building — basically one app for your whole digital life)

The irony of being a solo founder building a unified platform is that you end up using more apps than anyone to build it.

for me cursor, supabase, vercel, x, notion

  1. Claude Code

  2. Slack

  3. Gdoc

  4. Github

  5. Chrome

  1. chatgpt

  2. claude

  3. gmail

  4. google chrome

  5. semrush

Claude ftw

No pdria trabajar sin chat gtp, cloude, canva, gmail, jira

For me

  1. Claude

  2. M365 Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint & Excel

  3. for Recruiting and Team Alignment

  4. for Financial Planning

  5. Linear for Development Project Managment

ChatGPT - I mostly use it for research and day-to-day inquiries.
Gemini - It's where I run my creative juices to educate my audiences.
Perplexity - For all the burning SEO questions that I want to answer or get answered.
Cursor AI - If I feel stuck with my codes, there's always a prompt to resolve it.
Napkin AI - My creative partner for generating flowcharts and diagrams.

These are my top favorites, but I also work with other ones like Claude for reports and other complex tasks.

How do you manage your customers? CRMs? Google Sheets? Notion?

What I use everyday: Claude, Figma, Perplexity to search the web for me differently, and Gmail.

The tool we should never forget to use: Our brain. For judging, taste, reasoning harder than any AI could do.

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