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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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i use the same with the addition of a ton of apps like notion or todo-ist. recently tried blitzit which worked great until I ran out of my free trial.

 are there any other alternatives to blitzit?

 i read that motion is a good alternative. haven't given it a try tho.

  1. claude

  2. notes (built in note app)

  3. screen recorder (i use my own app :)

  4. raycast

  5. brave

 I should include Brave too... it is safer! :)

Mine changes a bit over time, but these are the five I reach for every day:

  1. Claude Code probably where I spend most of my day now. Building, debugging, and bouncing ideas around.

  2. ChatGPT research, writing, and sanity checks.

  3. Raycast one of those tools you stop noticing until you use another computer.

  4. Figma I’m not a designer, but it’s where product ideas become something people can react to.

  5. TeraConvert sounds biased because I built it 😄, but I convert screenshots, videos, PDFs, and docs constantly while testing, so it genuinely became part of my daily workflow.

Funny how most of the tools I rely on today didn’t exist (or weren’t this good) just a few years ago.

 Have you already launched TeraConvert on PH? :) BTW, need to check Raycast too. Many people mentioned it here :)

 Yep! I launched it a few days ago. 😊

It’s been a fun week so far. As a solo developer, getting real user feedback has honestly been the best part.

And yes, Raycast is fantastic. Once you get used to it, it’s hard to imagine using a Mac without it. 😄

my top 5:
1. soleos (my own project)
2. claude code
3. chat gpt
4. wispr flow
5. google chrome

 What SoleOS does? :)

  One dashboard for every app, game and website you run. Connect Stripe, RevenueCat, Google Analytics, Search Console and more plus an AI that runs through your data and suggest next steps to fix/improve based on your goals

 Cool, having a look at the website. Looks solid. :)

Hi! I've found my top 5 evolving with time.

What's remained unchanged:

  1. Google suite: Calendar, Sheets and emails

  2. Calendly: Still seamless for scheduling external calls.

  3. Claude: I use the Claude CLI for creating internal tracking systems and CRM. However, that has evolved.

What's changed:

  • I've been working on building a tool called mybrains.ai, which for me has replaced Notion, Monday, Trello, hibob, and others.

  • It connects seamlessly with my Telegram, and gives a daily summary/digest of my meetings, open items, follow-ups, etc.

Side bar: It's still early but we have a working version ready. If anyone would like to try it out and share some feedback with me, I'd be very appreciative. Happy to share the link.

 Are you vibecoding it or building it on your own? When the site is live, feel free to share it! :)

 Building it on my own. Here's a link to the website:

The app is not public yet; if you'd be keen to check it out, I'll set up access for you.

 I like the UI of the web. What did you use to complete it?

Good thread. Mine as a solo dev building on the side:

Claude Code: writes my test suites and handles the repetitive stuff so I don't

Cloudflare Workers + D1: where everything I make ends up living
VS Code: still can't quit it

Stripe: payments without the headache

InvoiceBadger: the invoicing. Full disclosure, it's my own thing. I built it because I kept putting off invoicing, and now I just tell my AI what I did and it writes them.

Anyone else gone fully serverless as a solo dev, or am I the odd one out?

 Do you know any other good alternatives to Stripe I could use with my extension I am building?

For sure, because once Stripe bans you, there is back and forth with that.

   I would suggest you creem

   I will check it out :)

   Feel free to send me DM and roast me :D

  1. cursor / vs code

  2. google chrome

  3. gmail

  4. slack

i'm trying hard to find a fifth item haha

 4 items are enough :D

Here are my 5, could not run my process without them:

  1. Score My Lead, the tool I just launched here on PH, scores a lead on 8 signals so I am not guessing who to call back first

  2. ai, shows which companies are visiting the site before they ever fill a form

  3. to, free live chat that turns a quiet visitor into an actual conversation

  4. Microsoft Clarity, heatmaps and session recordings, free, and it is not going anywhere since Microsoft built it

  5. Looker Studio, pulls everything into 1 dashboard instead of 6 open tabs

 Thank you for sharing your stack :)

ChatGPT, Notion, Google Calendar, Gmail, and one increasingly chaotic text file that somehow runs my entire life.

 Where do you store that text file? :D

  1. codex/claude

  2. Figma

  3. x/reddit/other communities

  4. YouTube

  5. davinci resolve

 Resolve is the surprise on this list. Everyone else names CapCut and then spends a week fighting the export, and Resolve is free right up until you actually need the neural engine bits. The one I'd defend hardest is putting communities in a tools list, most of what I know about pricing came out of three Reddit threads rather than anything with a login.

   I used to work with Davinci Resolve too, but their UX is not very convenient (CapCut has it more intuitive) :)

   No argument, the first week in Resolve is hostile. I stayed because CapCut re-encodes on export and I kept losing detail on 4K screen recordings, which matters when the footage is a UI. For vertical social clips CapCut wins outright. It's only the longer stuff where Resolve pays back the pain.

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