How do you choose go-to tech tools for your startup?
Kate Kovbii
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How PH fam, this is just a quick but still serious question: How do you pick tech tools for your startup? Where do you start? Is it a simple Google search or hours of scrolling product review platforms? Are you searching for advice on Stack Overflow or asking people on LinkedIn? If you could share your advice here it would be just brilliant!
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André J@sentry_co
Hey stranger! Personally I just talk to other founders that are making cool stuff. And make sure I always ask what "startup stack" they use. Like @stash_new I can never recall her startup stack but it was pretty cool. Care to share Cara? 😬 Also stash.new would be a great tool for quick text collaboration IMO. It's like notion but without all the shenanigans and bloat 🙊
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@sentry_co oh, this is so cool! Thanks for sharing! And what's your personal "startup stack"? (Especially since you're launching soon 😼)
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@sentry_co sure! I think it depends on the goals of the product -- One of the main goals for stash.new is that it's instantaneous. With that in mind, we chose Solid over React, have a local-first architecture with indexedDB, and use cloudflare workers to ensure instant collaboration.
A second goal we have is to offer what we think is the best writing experience. To do that, we needed full control of how text gets formatted so we use codemirror.
@stash_new I interpreted the question as what "tech tools". I call it "startup stack". Bit lost in translation there. sorry. I remember you mentioned some really cool tools you used internally for issue management, team collaboration etc. But I can't recall the name of them. 🙏
@kate_kovbii I'm a minimalist when it comes to tools. I just use the standard tool kit. Slack, Github, and paid google workspace. But we don't use the google tools. We just need it for domain branded emails in gmail. But when things move into operations mode. I think we will upgrade to superhuman.com because there will be more emails . And maybe Linear.app for tracking progress on iterative tasks etc. I guess. in the beginning you can start with free tools and then move into more custom tools later once your startup requires it.
@stash_new Very interesting to hear about the tech-stack tho! Did you experiment with lots of different ways of doing it? or did the stack pick it self for the problem / solution for stash? Solid 👌 IndexedDB 👌 And can you extend codemirror? Add your own things to it etc?