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

Richard Fang
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Mine is Canva - it has helped me build whitepapers, logos, branding material, video related media and more. What's yours?

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Arpit Mathur.
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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 😀
Aleks Bochkov
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Helpdesk by LabiDesk
Clickup - for business project management Todoist - for personal goals and tasks management Dropbox
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Shyam Prasad Reddy
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!
Jun Gong
i'd say trello for organizing tasks, and google suite.
Makenna Smutz
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Meeshkan Recorder
I'm a big fan of Linear
Ankita Arora
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.
Claire Glisson
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)
Limited Timing
Notion for documentation and Slack for communication.
Doug Lerch
@gcucci def agree with this pairing. plus they have plug ins to other platforms to help with productivity
Limited Timing
@doug_lerch Opens a world of possibilities!
Ionut Ciuta
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.
Maxim Frostman
@johnofardeal Agree, Trello is much more suitable for small teams like ours for example. Jira is a bit too sophisticated for the most
Paco vera
@johnofardeal Hi! I invite you to try my last productivity tool, is called, wisepath.io, feedback is very welcome!
Richard Fang
@johnofardeal Yeah we actually use Trello for our team of 4. I use it to manage my own life as well hahah
Florin Muresan
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AISQ Squirrly: End-to-End AI Marketing
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.
Alexander Doak
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.
Richard Fang
@doakio Haha not sexy but one of the best tools. I do a tonne on google sheets
Ros Trocyuk
Mine is Miro for brainstorming, and ideation with the team. Also I use Notion for the product knowledge base.
Sreekanth PM
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.
Nazan Kurt
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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.
Mukilanvelan
Notion & G drive 🎉🎉
Amit yadav
Moss.sh Literally changed the way I manage VPS for own websites.
Dimitris Karavias
Notion, I'm setting up a company workspace that combined with Slack is our remote team's office
Joel Schneider
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