What's your favourite tool you've used as a founder?

Github! I use issues for tracking features, conversations for discussing them and projects for tracking work. I haven't tried their workflows yet but am planning to soon 😀

Clickup - for business project management Todoist - for personal goals and tasks management Dropbox

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Ora or Trello

For me, it is a rather unconventional and boring one, Notepad! I dump everything there in one Notepad I have been using for ages! Last time, when I took the backup of that txt file, it ran into as many as 200 pages!

I'm a big fan of Linear

Mixpanel: To track each and every activity of the early users and catch the points they are tripping over Canva : All time favorite, Quick and easy to use with ready templates and tons of elements to add from.

Warning - analog answer. I'm a big notebook/ physical planner gal and I've been using the Passion Planner (https://passionplanner.com) for about 2 years. It has these AMAZING vision and goal mapping exercises that it prompts you to do throughout the year. I've found it helps keep me on track, motivated, and focused to actually accomplish the goals I set for myself. As a typical entrepreneur with shiny object syndrome, this little planner has been a life saver. It's helped me accomplish BIG goals across a ton of areas of my life... personal goals (move abroad - done) financial goals (bridge the 6-figure gap- done) and professional goals (work for myself full time - done)

Notion for documentation and Slack for communication.

We used Trello a lot for planning work and keeping a tab on all the things we had to do. It use to have a more freemium feel to it before the Atlassian acquisition. I still use Trello a lot for my personal projects and even for creative work. Trello is JIRA if it were actually designed for human beings.

OBS. being able to stream how we use the tools we create over at Squirrly has helped our audience a lot more than anything else.

Sorry it's not sexy, but: Google Sheets. Or Excel. With the right understanding of what is possible, you can build little custom modules/functions/scripts that integrate seamlessly with your workflows, thereby rendering 90% of modern SaaS platforms obsolete. Now, they don't scale as robust database solutions, but they are the perfect way to prototype your architecture and capabilities, getting to an MVP within weeks or even days. The transition to a serious DB backend can be undertaken later, and with a fully functioning prototype you can use to create all your dev stories.

Mine is Miro for brainstorming, and ideation with the team. Also I use Notion for the product knowledge base.

Excel: 1. It helps me to track my Expense and plan budget 2. It help me to draw first sketches of my product, which i then hand over to figma designer.

Commons, to be able to sync with my team easily. It's a huge boost in productivity while working remotely and building a team culture and connectedness. And Mixpanel, for all the insights from data and its value to find product market fit.

Notion & G drive 🎉🎉

Moss.sh Literally changed the way I manage VPS for own websites.

Notion, I'm setting up a company workspace that combined with Slack is our remote team's office

My top 3 in terms of UX 😍 - Notion (Notion 2.0) for Wiki + Task Management - Figma (Figma 2.0) for UI mockups, marketing creatives, and even presentations - Miro (RealtimeBoard 2.0 (Miro since 2019)) for remote workshops, flow diagrams and high level concept drawings