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Richard Fang
What's your favourite tool you've used as a founder?
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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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Natalie Karakina
Hi, Richard! Mine is Notion (https://www.producthunt.com/post...). Love their design, can't stop using it.
Richard Fang
@nataliekarakina Notion is awesome - I should probably leverage it a lot more!
Daniela Passos
@nataliekarakina true dat. Notion is amazing both as a founder, to organize work, and to organize our personal lives.
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Aleks Bochkov
Clickup - for business project management Todoist - for personal goals and tasks management Dropbox
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!
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.
Florin Muresan
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.
Sydney Cohen
raycast is something I use on a daily basis. I've created my own scripts and shortcuts to make my actions more productives: https://www.producthunt.com/post.... Shout out to @thomaspaulmann
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
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.
Paco Chim
@johnofardeal Hi! I invite you to try my last productivity tool, is called, wisepath.io, feedback is very welcome!
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
Richard Fang
@johnofardeal Yeah we actually use Trello for our team of 4. I use it to manage my own life as well hahah
Alex Freas
Definitely Miro! Amazing for organizing your thoughts, brainstorming, holding group discussions. I honestly think it's better than doing the same work in-person. Definitely something that will stick after the pandemic winds down.
Richard Fang
@sashimiblade I've never heard of Miro until this thread - looks like an amazing tool
Zoya Matin
I think I'll have to say Notion ! I'm obsessed - it makes documenting so easy
Nazan Kurt
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.
Artem Khromov
Notion and Figma 😍 It's like chalk and cheese compared to what I've used before - Confluence/Evernote, Illustrator, etc
Richard Fang
@artkhromov I've been using Figma recently and I wish I discovered earlier. I thought it was mainly used for UX/UI people but I've been using it for marketing as well!
Arpit Mathur.
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 😀
Fritz Brumder
My paper journal. Should have used it more in the early days, but it comes in handy as things get complex - both business models and people scaling issues 🚀 (Evernote if you really wanted it to be favorite digital tool:)
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.
Romain Cernik
Hey @richardfliu i use giphy a lot for my newsletter and social posts haha ! It's one the only tool i use in personal and professional situations.
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)
Josh Sebastian
Hey Richard, cool topic! Canva is fantastic - a designers best friend. We just launched Tapkit today, it's just like Canva with its creative freedom, full customisation and built in designer widgets, graphics and templates, but allows you to create interactive links - great for bio links, QR, and more - surface across your mobile marketing touchpoints. I'd love to get your feedback! ❤️ Miro - Realtime whiteboards.