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Nika

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

What are your five?

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Gaurav Sharma

Developer Stack

  1. Claude: Assistance, Research, Planning, Pair Programming

  2. Github: VCS

  3. Obsidian: Documentation and Study Notes with iCloud sync

  4. Standard Notes: Private Notes E2E encrypted

  5. Jetbrain IDE Stack, Terminal. Arc Browser, Apple Reminders, Google Stack for Meetings, shared docs and calendar (Thinking to switch to Proton stack for privacy)

Nika

@gaurav_sharma48 Re Obsidian: I was considering trying it. What do you consider its own benefits?

Jorge Ruiz Zuleta
definitely AI, depending on the job or challenge I will use one or the other.
Nika

@jorgerz and do you have any preferred tool or company?

Burun Estetiği

claude, chatgpt, canva :)

Nika

@burunestetigi couldn't decide between ChatGPT and Claude, so bet on both? :)

Sandhyarani Khuntia

my 3:

1.Chatgpt

2.Gemini

3.Grammerly

Nika

@sandhyarani_khuntia best combo! :D

Marcin Wolny

  1. Notepad (/Notepad++/Obsidian)

  2. Claude Caude (though Kilo CLI and alike will do)

  3. Teams (sorry haters, lol)

  4. Notizer.ai

  5. Web browser. For me it's Firefox, but really... would have a big problem, if all the browsers would die tomorrow. 😅 Appreciate the small things

Nika

@marcin_wolny I am still chrome team :D It is better than Internet Explorer tho :D

xie yujin

Is Figma still useful these days? I’ve always found it a bit heavy when coding.

Nika

@xie_yujin I use it as for designs. Is anything bad with it?

Theo Depraetere

Trully feeling blessed with these tools, (as AI engineer).
1. Cursor (still the best agent harness )
2. Raycast (yes 2.0 just dropped, with built-in voice transcriptions)
3. Warp (Agentic terminal, free and easy )
4. Bond (Very own agentic Todo list ✅)
5. Shottr (easy screenshot tool with OCR 👀)

Nika

@theo_depraetere I do not know most of them – I will have to do my own research on them! :)

Bhanu partap

my 5:

  1. wekraft - best AI-project management tool, which I have build, kindly check it out @Wekraft

  2. Canva

  3. Claude/ChatGPT

  4. Gmail

  5. Vercel

Nika

@bhanu__partap Thank you for sharing them! :)

Xavier

As an independent developer currently refactoring my backend and trying to launch internationally, here is my absolute survival stack:

  1. VS Code / AI Coding Agents (Claude Code / Cline): Absolute life-saver. Just helped me aggressively refactor a monolithic 1,500-line node server down to a clean 400 lines in two days.

  2. Vercel: For instant, hassle-free frontend hosting.

  3. Cherry Studio: Best multi-model platform to manage my API keys (SiliconFlow, Anthropic, Google).

  4. Midjourney / DALL-E: For drafting quick logos and promotional visual assets without a designer.

  5. GitHub: Because losing code is not an option."

Nika

@changx9609 do you also use this for monetising your tools?

Yevhen Designer

  • Cursor / AI tools – absolute lifesaver for speeding up custom code and styling.

Nika

@yevhen_designer It seems that most of us admire just AI in general :D

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