Swapnil D Puranik

What are some of the best under-the-radar tools that you know of or use?

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I am a sucker of niche tools which are not as popular their other alternatives, but they get the work done just fine, or in some cases even better.
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Aaditya Deshmukh
I use Peerlist (https://peerlist.io/), it's like a better LinkedIn alternative where each aspect of professional networking is very carefully designed. For example, they offer to verify work experience using your work email-id and add a nice verified badge on your profile. The same applies to other aspects like proof of work, a news feed, chat, etc. Also, did I mention the verification is free?
Akash Bhadange
@itsaadityaa Thank you so much for mentioning Peerlist Aaditya!
Swapnil D Puranik
@itsaadityaa @designerdada I have come across peerlist in few communities I am part of, but didn't sign up yet for some reason. Doing it now. Thanks for bringing this up Aaditya and thanks for building this Akash!
Aaditya Deshmukh
@swapdp_01 Welcome! 😊
Arie Stavchansky
Templater for Adobe After Effects from Dataclay. It turns After Effects into a server for developers to create customized video on the fly. End users from organizations such as the NFL, Amazon, Apple, and Netflix use it to a great extent to automate the creation of video content and still images for broadcast and social media and other apps. It's a powerful tool running under-the-hood for many apps offering customized, highly targeted, video content. Templater can read data from Google Sheets, local files, and API's including Dataclay's QUE platform. Templater https://dataclay.com/templater QUE https://dataclay.com/que
Swapnil D Puranik
@ariestav damn! it's amazing how such niche tools are running mainstream services and platforms. thanks for sharing, Arie and congratulations for building Dataclay! 💯👍🏻
Hugo Alves
I have been using www.syntheticusers.com to get immediate feedback on my ideas
Swapnil D Puranik
@ugo_alves super interesting! how did you hear about this?
Hugo Alves
@swapdp_01 I built it because I had the common problem of not doing enough research. 😂
Swapnil D Puranik
@ugo_alves Kudos to you man! 💯👍🏻
Jarek Rozanski
Camtasia by @techsmith for screencasts. I like to have an offline tool for that. Lucidspark for whiteboarding. Nebo for cross platform notes (iOS, Windows, Android). Zenkit for project management and To-dos. Wide Angle Analytics (my tool) for web analytics without cookie banner.
Swapnil D Puranik
@techsmith @jarek_rozanski lists like this adds so much value for everyone! thanks for sharing, Jarek!
Rob Gordon
Oh no, all I make are niche tools 😅 https://flowchart.fun -> free, in-browser, text to flowchart generation https://palette.tone-row.com/ -> custom tailwind color palettes from a prompt
Martin Seeler
@tonerow The tailwind color palettes are awesome, love it!
Swapnil D Puranik
@tonerow @martinseeler This thread is meant for you and folks like you Rob! Thanks for making and sharing!
Rob Gordon
@martinseeler Thanks! 🚀
John Kennelly
zcal.co is amazing, free and I like it much better than Calendly!
Swapnil D Puranik
@magistratejohn thanks for sharing, John! 👍🏻
Andreas
Not to toot my own horn, but InPrivy (https://inprivy.io) is still pretty much under-the-radar but really useful to lots of people already.
Swapnil D Puranik
@mrmooky i can totally see this transcending domains. is this HIPPA compliant too? couldn't see it on the website.
Jeff Doan
@mrmooky this seems like a great product; and a genius use of freemium here (sans needing an account)!
Swapnil D Puranik
@mrmooky @jefffis Agreed! 👍
SamvelRaja Sakthivel
I use thunderclient vscode extension alot over the postman desktop app
Swapnil D Puranik
@samvelraja_sakthivel my non-technical background doesn't completely appreciate the significance of this.😜 thanks for sharing! 👍🏻
SamvelRaja Sakthivel
@swapdp_01 ha ha. Developers who wants to save their RAM understands it well 🤣
Alexander Artemenko
Common Lisp. It is not only amazing calculator, but also a great programming language making me a 10x faster!
Kate Gallo
CleanShot X for taking/managing screen shots. Does one thing very well...game changer. Makes me realize how much of my workflow is screenshots.
Swapnil D Puranik
@kategallo sounds amazing. unfortunately they don't seem to work for Windows. thanks for sharing, Kate!