What are your favorite tools that you use in your start-up?

So many tools. But I'm particularly loving my tools stack for VenturesList

Website: Carrd
Automation: Zapier
Email: ImprovMX & EmailOctopus
Product: Airtable
Tracking: Bitly

Intercom for product tours, support chat, video tours.
Loom for videos.
HubSpot for CRM and email marketing.
QuickBooks for accounting software - paying vendors
TrueRev.com to understand recurring revenue metrics
Canva for brochures, graphic design

Slack: communication
Figma: design
Ghost: blogging
Spreadsheet: CRM(looking to switch to pipedrive or close)
Stripe: payments
Papercups.io: customer chat
Notion: workspace
Trello & ClickUp: project management
Tella.tv: videos
Gsuite & Superhuman: emails
Pry.co(our own finance tool): bookkeeping & financial planning

Email Marketing:
ActiveCampaign

Customer Support:
Helpscout

Website Analytics:
Google Analytics and Hotjar

Social Media Scheduling and Management:
SocialBu

Payments:
Stripe

Task Management:
Basecamp or Trello

Email, Docs:
Google Workspace (GSuite) for email and Basecamp for Docs.

Phone:
Google Voice

Outreach Email:
Woodpecker

Hi Ilya!

We use:
FROGED (Of course)
Google Suite (Drive, Meetings, Chat, Calendar)
Google Analytics
Miró
Hotjar
Segment
Trello
Notion

Hey!
We use:

• Slack
• Trello
• Mixpanel
• Google Analytics
• and of course our own product, Noora, for noting down EVERY customer interaction we have, and now this week, running our first product-market fit survey.

The most useful sales tool I've used, by far, is a "reddit marketing" tool I built for myself last spring. It streams and runs rudimentary NLP algos on every comment made on reddit, and alerts me when a conversation related to my product is happening. Jumping into that convo and plugging my product precisely where it's relevant has been a great way of generating sales.

Hey Ilya,

We use:

• Contentstudio.io for social media and blog content management
• Notion for product documentation and wiki
• Lemlist for cold emails
• Hubspot for sales CRM
• Gosquared for chat and emails
• Helpscout for customer tickets and help docs

Thanks!

Heeey!
I use loom (I used to use drift) to record tuto videos :-)
Slack to communicate with my team.
DropContact to verify email addresses.
Canva for the design.

Great list! A bit biased here as the founder but would like to share Tally here for creating free forms and accepting payments: https://tally.so

Favorite tool for startup is: my brain!

Database: Stackby
Communication: Slack
SEO: Ahrefs
Email: Lemlist
Google Analytics, Search Console
Product: Mixpanel

For the workflow cracks, we use a simple tool to make diagrams of workflows and processes. yEd Graph Editor. Comparable to Visio but it's free.

LiveAgent.com --> Practice what you sell
Frase --> Content Briefs
Ahrefs --> SEO

We are currently using more than 50 tools for our projects. More important is how they are tight up with our processes. That's what make tools superstars.

I love Airtable and Slack and use those more than any other tool. Also enjoy using Woodpecker and Sendgrid for email outreach and eventually plan on integrating Stripe for payments.

Pretty much everything else we use is powered by our own platform PowerTools - from our software infrastructure to our deployment platform to some custom internal tools we've spun up quickly using PowerTools.

My favorites for Backtalk are:

• Discord for group voice chat to keep everyone on the same page. We also use Twitch every once for collaboration while working in public.
• We dogfood by using Backtalk for capturing feedback on the app and in our emails.
• AWeber for all things email.
• Notion for planning and docs.
• Loom for recording welcome videos and tutorials.
• Procreate for illustration and welcome notes.

I recently made a blog post with a fairly exhaustive list of tools I use for SongRender. Here are some highlights:

• Terraform for managing my infrastructure
• Stripe for handling payments
• Postmark for sending emails
• Fathom for website analytics

I use hotjar and love it!

Canva - lots of graphic stuff for ads
Appzi - for customer feedback
Unbounce - LP's
Looka - pretty cool for logo generation for us non-designers

Full disclosure - I am non-tech and outsource all of the dev stuff but the above can make me seem barely competent in the tech-but-not-dev related tasks.