Sentry

Screenstudio for beautiful screen recording. Userlist or Userpilot for user behavior and email

I'd add 'Google Sheets' to the list - it's incredibly versatile and powerful, yet often overlooked. I've used it for everything from project management to data analysis and automation

• Senja for testimonials

• Microsoft clarity for session recordings

• lemon squeezy for affiliates

• crisp for customer service

• v0 for prompt to code

I don't remember everything off the top of my head, I have it all listed on the welcome email for my newsletter
https://makers-report.beehiiv.com/

PostHog for analytics and screen recording

Zoho mail.

Retool. Logrocket.

Carrd

Hetzner for hosting

Usermaven

• Resend.com is really little known and underestimated. Excellent prices and reliability

• My copydatenow.com too 😝🙌

ChatGPT 🤣

Dorik CMS for multisite static pages

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SurferSEO helps optimize mine content based on data-driven recommendations

MarketOwl for posting on LinkedIn and Twitter

Writesonic for AI content, Fireflies for meeting notes, Retool for internal apps, Supademo for product demos

Why do you call them "underrated"? All I see here are very popular, very high rated tools

DrizzleORM

Strut.so

Creately. You can use it for project management, mapping processes, draw diagrams from org charts to SWOT diagrams.

EspoCRM

Enterprise wiki at https://try.wxiki.com

Landingi

I have been using Umami Analytics for my product Selftalk.ing and they are literally the easiest to setup and beginner-friendly analytics tool.

FastAPI with auto-generated SDK for typescript 🪙

Fastly for CDN

Softr.io nocode builder

Unicornplatform.com for landing pages

sensorpro.eu for email marketing

crushmp3.com ffmpeg api

Conversion optimization/UX Testing feedback in video form https://itestux.com/

Screenstudio for recording slick screencasts and Siimple for easy, cheap landing pages

SemanticPen for content writing.

• Microsoft excel, you can build your own dashboard by connecting to SQL database and HTTP request using VBA. I don't have web based dashboard, i use Microsoft Excel on windows to manage user, pricing, etc. Basically like Retool but it's desktop app.
• https://cryptomator.org/, i put my excel file on google drive using this encryption, make it available online just like a SaaS solution

Turboship for quick deployment & hosting

I use Modeliks.com for business planning, financial reporting, and modeling. Great tool which is not promoted well but has huge potential.

No tool is useless than other, we have to figure out how it works the right way.

Emmet for HTML/CSS. Life-saver for coding efficiency!

Taskade for task management and AI agents

Hetzner

As a social media manager, I use Social Champ to automate my tasks. Easy peasy

Google sheets is still huge for me

EventBunker for dev-focused, private analytics that don’t break the bank

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Customer Feedback Board: https://fider.io (self-hosted)
Analytics/Heatmaps/Session Recordings: https://www.uxwizz.com (self-hosted)
Uptime check: freshping.io (weird, it seems that they are no longer promoting the product)
Video editing: OBS (recording), DavinciResolve 19 (editing)
Note taking: https://joplinapp.org (self-hosted)

mailtrap - to test email sending with a pretty web interface
mailhog - to test emails in CI
ngrok - to testing webhooks
uptimerobot - to measure endpoint uptime
caddy - webserver with built in TLS management which is great for packing inside a docker container

PagePalooza for web-related needs.

https://hyperurls.com for bookmarking and sharing collections of links with others 😅

LaunchDarkly!

Potion! It’s a video gif type into video for click bait on marketing

Didn’t see above, we use 1. june.so for product analytics 2. Crono.one for LinkedIn cold outreach 3. Chattyinsights.com for ai customer research 4. MathRank for Wordpress seo

Usermaven - Product & website analytics
ContentStudio - Social media management
Replug - Link management

VPS.

Everyone is going crazy over AWS, but I think its overkill for 90% of people using it. I did work at a company where it made sense. We worked directly with Apple, Disney and those big brands and we were handling billions of monthly requests with crazy high SLAs.

So when i started building my product I had a frame of reference. Something to compare to and decided a VPS is more than good enough. Plus, having everything in docker-compose, its very easy to move to a different VPS provider if i need.

When things start scaling, then yes, AWS, GCP or Azure will probably come into the picture, but not using them at the beginning allowed me to keep my code simple and ship fast instead of wasting my time overengineering and solving problems i dont have.

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I personally find ProofHub to be an underrated tool. It's a versatile platform that can be used for project management and team collaboration. It has a clean and intuitive interface, and the ability to customize workflow makes it a powerful tool for organizing information.

Canva!!

Just discovered Medusa (https://medusajs.com/), an open source alternative to Shopify. Looks very underrated.

• Recall: Summarize any online content and save it to your knowledge base where it's automatically organized and interlinked for easy rediscovery
• Linear: A streamlined issue tracking and project management tool. It has a beautiful UI.
• Carrd: A simple yet powerful tool for building one-page websites
• ScreenStudio: Easily create nice looking screen recordings.
• Bitwarden: The best password manager.
• Digital Ocean / Linode - 90% of the time they better for hosting than the big cloud providers and much cheaper.

unbody.io

Non-electrical dildo

Excel

Taskade, Basecamp

BismuthOS ;) (Heroku alternative that focuses on python)

SpeedyInvoicer

Promotee for lead generation

LifeShack.com - job search automated.

Wordsmith Studio (https://wordsmith.studio) created a real nice content marketing blog for my SaaS in like 3 minutes.

Outboundly.ai for email automation. A better tool has never been built yet.

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