My Makers Toolkit
A year ago I wrote about my toolkit as a product manager.
Now it’s time to introduce the apps and products I love using when creating my own side-projects.
Website building
🃏 Carrd : for quick & simple landing pages
👹 Jekyll : for blogs or structured data websites
🪟 Namecheap — where I purchase all my domain names (10 and counting!)
🌎 Netlify — host your plain HTML or client side apps
📁 MVP CSS — minimalist CSS stylesheet
🗄 Bootstrap CSS — when I outgrow MVP CSS
🍿 Wisepops — exit-intent popups to collect emails or run surveys
Productivity, Ideation & Thinking
🐻 Bear — breaking down ideas, taking down notes
🗄 Notion — give structure to my tasks
⏲ PomodoroFocus.io — timebox my tasks
✒️ Pen and paper — hipster alert: either MUJI or KAWEC
📅 zcal — a Calendly alternative, avoid back and forth when scheduling calls
Hiring freelancers
👩💻 Workana — for hiring LATAM freelancers
👩💻 Fiverr — for highly specific jobs such as logos
👩💻 Upwork — when in need of international freelancers
Podcasting
🎙 Riverside — record your remote podcast or video interviews
📻 Anchor.fm — host your podcast
Mailing
🐙 Email Octopus — mailing list with light automations
Writing
✍️ Google Docs
📔 Hemingway App — a reminder of efficient writing
🔤 Word Tunes — make your writing more clear
🐦 Chirr app — structure twitter threads without hassles
Design
🖼 Figma — for creating logos, or social media assets
🎨 Colopicker — the native Mac OS color picker
Is there any other tool you recommend?
I’d love to hear about it. Write me on twitter.
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