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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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For me, it's Claude, Figma, Antigravity, Docs, Slack, Notion, and Teams.

  1. VS Code

  2. Codex

  3. Figma

  4. Google Sheets

  5. Perplexity

Here are my 5:

  1. Linear – where our eng team spots issues before they blow up. Keeps us moving, not stuck.

  2. Zoom – nothing special, but every call runs on it.

  3. Katalyst – the agent that works our sales pipeline so we don't drop leads.

  4. Katalyst Notetaker – sits in on calls, hands me the transcript + action items. Nothing slips.

  5. Claude – my go-to for getting work done and building mini-agents for daily work.

(PS- and the Notetaker are ours- we build them. So I'm a little biased, but they genuinely run my day.)


1/ chatgpt/gemini for brainstorming, refining grammar
2/ recurroster for managing my freelancing business all-in-one

Since travel is in my work, I'll add one more — Shaivio for AI trip planning. You describe where you want to go in plain language and it builds a full day-by-day itinerary with real flight, hotel, train options. Big time saver for trip research.

Obviously Claude Code

VS Code

Git : I use them for everything

Postman
Loom

fun thread. mine, as a solo dev building a health dashboard app:

  1. Flutter - one codebase for iOS + Android, and custom painters make chart-heavy UI genuinely fun to build

  2. Claude Code - went from fancy autocomplete to doing real chunks of the work, code review included

  3. Semgrep - had to pass Google's CASA security assessment to read health data, and static analysis caught things I never would have spotted myself

  4. GitHub Actions - the boring hero: analyze, tests and security scans on every PR so I can't merge something dumb at midnight

  5. Golden tests (Flutter's screenshot testing) - half tool, half safety net, but I couldn't touch a chart without them

also +1 on gmail as a reminder system, my drafts folder is basically a todo app at this point

i use: Figma, Claude Code / Fable5 , windsurf with Kimi 2.7 and mpc and more, Cursor, Google stich, chat gpt plus, codex and all of them worked together, because i build a agent that work with all of them in the same time. and they split the work for Prompting discuss and some more.

Here are my top 5;

1. MarkLens - Tells me whether the idea that I am working on is actually worth it!
2. Claude Code - Helps me structure and put things in shipping mode
3. Next.js - My go-to app builder
4. Vercel - It's how modern servers and builds operate
5. Supabase - Where data turns into magic!

  1. Notion.

  2. Whispr Flow

  3. Claude

  4. Gmail

  5. Bluedot

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