What SaaS products does your startup use that you couldn't run the product without?
For me its:
- Auth0 for user authentication
- Mailchimp for email marketing
- Stripe for payments
- Trello for task tracking and management
- GitHub to code
- Figma for design
- Notion for company documentation/knowledgebase
- Vercel to host/deploy websites
What are the product that you or your SaaS couldn't run without, let me know in the comments below:
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Yeah I'm planning to shift to Linear soon 😊😎
It's been great. What are you currently using?
Trello.
Trello is great too, just the usability and performance of Linear is way better.
I use ClickUp but the poor performance of this tool is annoying. I read that Linear.app works perfectly for tech teams.
It's definitely better compared to all-in-one tools.
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Stripe, Slack and our own email outreach tool firstsales.io
Great to hear Udit 😊
I try to use less software as possible, right now I'm using Stripe and GCP, but planning to use some 'Error Monitoring' solution.
I have created a side project website called https://www.nocodefriendly.com/ about Sass and no-code software.
As it is in Spanish, I shared this document in English in case someone needs it or wants to contribute other Sass.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LuMgnNwM53Q6I7mRvgX3N18CavmcIU0ExpTdsodxMQs/edit#gid=2122587238
Anyway, my top 5 tools are:
Obsidian for docs and research.
Beehiiv for newsletters
Copilot for code
Retool for backend tools.
Paddle for payments
MongoDB for user auth and storage
ChatGPT API
Mailchimp for emails
Paypalsdk for payment
GitHub for Source Code
Digitalocean for hosting
Discord server for chatting
Canva for Designs
Loom for demo videos
Product Hunt for launching
Toggle track for time management
Hey @Mrecho, may I ask you about Toggl exactly - why do you use that one over others? Would you recommend that for a startup with distributed team with different time zones and working hours?
WordPress for website
Substack for newsletter
Notion for planning
Figma for design
Design: Figma
Website: Webflow
Call Planner: Calendly
Our essentials are Apollo.io + Hubspot (for prospecting & CRM), Co-Pilot (for client-facing portal), Trello (for project management), Databox (metrics tracking), Figma + Adobe (design), Jasper (content), SEMRush (SEO + Digital Marketing).
Dev: GitHub
Sales: Apollo + LinkedIn
That's it for me (I think)!
Identity Server 4 - Authentication
Customer Support - BoldDesk our own tool
Rewardful - Affiliate Marketing
GCP - Hosting
JIRA - Issue/Task Management
AWS SES - Outbound Email
PostMark - Inbound Email
Github - Source Code
Stripe - Payments
Mail Chimp - Email Marketing
Figma - Design
Stripe - Invoices, Subscriptions, One Time Payments
Airtable - Every process that isn't visual or text heavy
Canva - Every visual process
Google Docs or Coda - Text heavy documentation
Discord - Replaced slack for our team
Peppertype.ai/jasper.ai - Cut down my writing
Instantly + similar tech - Cold outreach AI
More recently I've been using Appsumo to find low cost replacements of less critical tools
Great idea for a thread. The usuals plus Chat GPT from this year onwards 😅
Is there a really good, quality intro to Chat GPT and good use cases?
To start with you can ask Chat GPT itself, the most fun way to explore is to give different types of prompts and get blown away by Chat GPT's responses. Here is an article you can read to help you understand it's capabilities at a high level: https://ai.plainenglish.io/100-useful-chat-gpt-prompts-to-boost-your-creativity-and-productivity-518a23a4326a
And that is so trueee!! Can't forget ChatGPT 🤣
Some awesome stuff here. I started using Workflowy - https://workflowy.com/ for tasks and bugs tracking. Super intuitive and nice, can recommend
Looks promising @Kirsanov
Mailchimp, Github/Gitlab.
Undraw is incredible!
Flaticon and noun project also helped me a lot with illustrations
Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
Also in my list : https://favicon.io/ that I use during the very first versions to convert emojis to favicons and in no time I have the illustration I need :)
Canva. Irreplaceable!
Indeed!!
Other than the usual Github, Stripe for https://tolt.io we use Postmark for emails, Height for tasks, Magic for authentication, and AWS for hosting.
@yxngdano How's your experience with Magic?
Amazing! We used Auth0 before, but I like Magic more.
The main thing is that I don't like passwords anymore, and Magic was the perfect solution :)
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Great post! I would not say we cannot live without any of it, I do believe that all product has alternatives, so if they disappeared, we could find the next best option. So I can only add things that make us more productive overall, and I learned to love them:
Stripe and Crisp
AWS for cloud hosting
G Suite for productivity
Salesforce for CRM
Mixpanel for user tracking
Sendgrid for email delivery
GitHub for code management
Vercel/render/digital ocean
Mailgun
Ghost
Make.com
Retool
Figma
Notion
Canva
ChatGPT
Paddle (soon)
Can someone do statistics on how many software used the most ?
Figma mantioned 22 times ..
Some of the best tools we've used so far:
Glad to see many others using similar tools.
For CodeSprout it's:
Also, I can probably live without it but Hotjar has been super useful for seeing how users are clicking around on the site
This post is pretty good, getting to know what most of the people use
We use
Stripe for payments
Figma for design
Next.js for front end
Nest.js for back end
Typeorm and postgres for database
Jira for product management
Slack for chat
Github for source code
Mailchimp for email marketing
Auth0 for authentication
And github actions and AWS for CI CD
Hope you like our tech stack
For me running T.LY URL Shortener, it is Cloudflare and Stripe. These services would be impossible to build as a solo dev and do so much to make my life easier. Cloudflare does a ton but primarily helps to protect the site from DDOS attacks, and of course, Stripe to accept payments is crucial.
Freshdesk for support
Tawk.to for chat
Github for code
Figma for prototyping
Notion for task tracking
Netlify for hosting
Substack for email marketing
Slack, Helpscout, Shortcut and our own apps contentstudio.io (for social media) and usermaven.com (for analytics).
And customer.io for emails
I'm going to add a category that nobody has shared yet:
Our own products.
In B2B apps I think the most vital tool of all is "dogfooding", aka using our own product as a key pillar of running our company.
This is the only way we can be on the frontlines of the frustrations that actual users will encounter when they try, not to "give it a try", but to actually use the software for productive reasons.
I've done tens of live demonstrations to users and tens of 2-hour live calls with our paid users (I do 4 month) to showcase the software, answer questions, etc.
But even that is not as powerful as editing our own videos with our own AI editor (Nuro) to find out that oh, we just broke the player in Safari, or dammit, I just made change X in the editor and it wasn't reflected in the final result, and so on.
By acting like a paid user does, you see way clearer than when you act like the vendor supporting users.
So...
TL;DR : the first product we all should use that we couldn't run the startup without is
"our own product"
Sébastien
Canva for Designs
Figma for Designs
Taskade for Task management
Discord for internal communication
Hubstaff for Time management
Nichesss Content creating-AI writer
Mailshake for Email outreach
Ubersuggest for keyword research
wenDues :D
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wendues/id1644736038
Funny enough, my product is all about which apps and tools teams use to work on their product :) Check it out if interested and submissions are also open!
https://www.companies.tools
Great design!
thanks!
The Allset extension on Google Calendar. It helps me arrange time productive with my team members.
webneeder to create leanding page :D
Figma, stripe, firebase, clickup, GitHub
Vercel, Render, and Stripe. I think everything else could be built to 50% of the quality with pretty low cost, or using manual workarounds, but those 3 are make or break and have a ton of overhead to replace.
Landing Page: Webflow
Versioning: Github
Authentication: Auth0
Hosting: AWS
Issue Tracking: Trello
Documentation: Notion
Hosting: Hetzner
Saas Tool: Saasrock
Front: Vercel
Back: Supabase
Frontend: www.vercel.com (React + Next.js)
Backend: www.digitalocean.com (Node.js + NestJS)
Database: www.digitalocean.com (PostgreSQL)
Design: www.figma.com
Code: www.github.com
Company Management: www.notion.so
Projects Management: www.trello.com
Theres some great resources in these lists for us startup builders! Thanks everyone!
Hosting: AWS
Design： Figma
Automation: Zapier
Database:Mysql
Hosting: Brizy.cloud
Design: Figma
Automation: Zapier
Database: Airtable
Hosting: Heroku (back) & Netlify (front)
Payment: Stripe
Database: Heroku DB
Code: GitHub
Emails: Sendinblue
Project managment: Notion
Stack for https://tail.so
Hosting: Vercel + DigitalOcean
Payment: Paddle
Database: Render
Code: GitHub
Design: Figma
Emails: AWS SES
Stack for https://maxtravel.app
Website 👉 framer.com
Waitlist 👉 kickofflabs.com
Banking 👉 mercury.com
App 👉 https://flutter.dev
Auth 👉 firebase.com
Backend 👉 aws.com
Code/Tasks 👉 github.com
CMS 👉 notion.so
Email 👉 mailjet.com
Twitter 👉 hypefury.com
Feedback 👉 instabug.com
Research 👉 maze.co
Design 👉 figma.com
3D 👉 https://spline.design
Nothing fancy
Payment: Stripe
Codebase: Github
Hosting: Netlify
Backend: Supabase
Mails: Sendmail
Customer Service: Crisp
Magic: OpenAi
## Services and Platforms
Hosting: Heroku
Payments: Stripe
Marketing/Email: Hubspot
SEO: Ahrefs
Microservice Infrastructure: AWS
Customer Service: Google Forms (with email triggers)
Canva: Social Media Design
Domain/Email: Google Domains
## Libraries and Frameworks
Calendar: simple_calendar ruby gem
Subscription Manager: pay ruby gem
Design System: Bootstrap 5
Payments: stripe,
Hosting: AWS,
Maps: Mapbox,
Auth: Auth0,
Chat: Discord,
Code base: Github,
Design: Figma
Payment: Paddle
Design: Figma
Website analytics: Alceris Analytics
We have an operationally intensive business with a wide scope at a super early stage - lots of process, support agents, etc. - so we need lots of internal tools! So:
Retool
Other:
Planetscale - safe database schema merges!
AWS Lambda + Function URLs + SQS - easy scale for API & workers!
Linear - track issues to each branch in a way that PM can live with
Github - obv
BigQuery + Metabase - instant analytics!
AWS Amplify for hosting.
AWS lambda
Jira
Laravel vapor
Same with Auth0, Mailchimp, Stripe and Github.
AWS Amplify for hosting.
Jira for task tracking.
Planning: Notion
Design: Figma
Prototype: Maze
Payments: Stripe
Hosting: Vercel
Code: Github
DB: Airtable + Supabase
Payments: Stripe
Email: Mailjet
If anyone else here is selling WordPress themes/plugins, I'd recommend Freemius. It's so nice not having to manage an eCommerce store on your own site.
Figma, slack, Asana am of course our very own tool for product discovery https://insight7.io.
We’re publicly launching next week and you can help support us by joining our page https://www.producthunt.com/products/insight7
Much the same as you, with the addition of Firebase for the Database, Storage and Auth
Great question Ayush. if you're using Trello, I'm working on SamePage which is making task/information retrieval 10x faster.. I think you'd really like it.
Here's a 4m Loom demo, would love to hear what you think.
https://www.loom.com/share/48cbb69e3fd14bdbbd7814660deaed3c
fantastic question
We actually use the majority of the products you suggested.
However, in addition to the things you specified, we also use
We use MojoAuth for user authentication.
We use Sendinblu for email marketing.
Rest are similar.
Great stack Kinsley. if you're using Trello... I've developed SamePage which is making task/information retrieval 10x faster.. I think you'd really like it.
Here's a 4m Loom demo, would love to hear what you think.
https://www.loom.com/share/48cbb69e3fd14bdbbd7814660deaed3c
Excalidraw!
https://excalidraw.com/
Isn't this the same as Figma or FigJam?
Check the link, it is more like a white board and it makes everything look like a rough sketch. I use Figma too, for pixel perfect stuff, Excalidraw for ideas and sketches. It keeps me from getting stuck in design when I just want to explore ideas. It's amazing.
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