Guys, I wanna know what SaaS tools are y’all using for your startups. The most common ones are:
- Google Workspace
- Teams
- Zoom
- Slack
- Notion
- Github
- Figma
- Jira
- AWS
- Hubspot
If you currently purchase subscriptions for softwares other than these (be it for yourselves or your employees), please let me know. It’d help a lot with what we’re building
- Mixpanel for user-level analytics
- GA4 + Lookerstudio for marketing attribution
- Figma for design and prototyping
- Readme for docs
- Webflow for website
- Zipy for error resoutions
- SuprSend for notification infra handling
- AWS - just switched today from DigitalOcean
Workspace, Notion, GitHub, Slack, Jira
I use quite a lot of services, but I would say my main ones are:
• Webflow Agency Workspace plan (visual frontend code editor)
• Webflow CMS site plan (site hosting)
• Figma (design tool)
• Fathom Analytics (well, site and UTM analytics)
• Notion (databases, notes, project management, and so on)
• n8n (integration/automation tool)
Actually I try to list all the tools and services I use on the “Stack” page on my site, so feel free to check it out if you are interested (georgy.design/stack)!
What tier of figma are you on?
Free tier, it is enough for me right now.
I would add Sendgrid and Twilio for Omnichannel reach. Even though not fully happy with their features and plans, unfortunately they are the best in the game. Alternatives are not fully grown yet.
Except if anyone is interested in building an alternative, I’m down in such case, DM me :)
Sendgrid, Notion, Telegram API, AWS, ChatGPT Plus
This is the list of SaaS tools I used to build my own SaaS startup https://juli1.substack.com/p/building-codiga-what-tools-and-tech
Asana, make.com, Salesforce, Lucidchart, Stripe, Sendgrid, GoToWebinar, PandaDoc, Figma, Office365 and around two dozen more.
Number of users differs quite a bit; from just 3 (Sendgrid) up tp > 120 (Asana). A few tools are integrated with our Azure AD but most access is given/removed manually. On-/offborading are handled with standardized Asana tasks – works quite well. For some tools we’re using the free plan, for some we’re on the highest. But SSO and user management options was never a decision factor so far when buying new tools/switching plans.
Are you on the Figma organisation plan?
Get rid of teams completely and replace jira with linear and you have most startups saas stack. Also will need a compliance saas, accounting, banking, contract mgmt, and cap table mgmt. vanta/secureframe, quickbooks, mercury, pulley, deel
Hoo boy, my favorite things in life are testing out SaaS products and either breaking them or making our startup better.
Here are my favorites (the essentials):
- Notion (database / knowledge base)
- Fellow (meeting assistant / tasks)
- Canva (design)
- Figjam/Figma (design, mind mapping, flow documentation)
- Krisp (noise cancellation)
- Descript (video/audio editor)
- Tango (process documentation)
I’m trying out Gems Beta. Can’t determine if it’s great yet. The idea is to have an AI assistant that references a personal database. I have mine connected to Notion. I’m getting mixed results in beta, but the concept is meaningful to me.
Google Workspace Microsoft 365 Slack Notion Clickup
I am using ProofHub for collaboration and project management.
This looks weirdly like Basecamp’s marketing pages. What’s going on there?
Separately, do you recommend it (and are you affiliated, for disclosure)?
Slack for workplace communication, and our company’s product, TheirCircle, for socializing and improving group culture.
Not sure what startup is using Teams. The list is missing Briefmatic (for managing tasks across all the apps) and Intercom for managing customer onboarding (single user plan).
When you start getting 50+ emails a day, you’re going to want to get a sub to Superhuman.
Life changer.
U mean as an actual person or some magical AI service? 🙂
Teams and Microsoft 365 does basically everything. It’s slack, notion, zoom combined
AWS is a cloud not SaaS
If you run a mac does it still make sense to use teams?
Yes it doesn’t matter if mac or windows
Teams and Microsoft 365 does basically everything. It’s slack, notion, zoom combined
We use this, because startup licensing. But. they are truly horrendous. If you want to use something overcomplicated that finds every imaginable way to distract you from the task at hand, use Microsoft 365.
There’s no doubt, it’s often improved, and given how endless it is, it’s seamless. But if you wanted to travel to another city, it’s like being offered a collection of things from your local hardware store and a pot of fuel. It has no opinions, so you had better want to spend time, or to pay someone to spend time, customising it and keeping the customisations maintained.
Take an example, a project. Has some related storage, tasks, news feeds. So you start a Teams site, it gives you all this. The invitation link people get soon vanishes to the bottom of their inbox, so hopefully they remember to come and look in the side panel in teams for the project from time to time. The chat for that team is buried there too, can’t be surfaced to the “chat” sidebar in Teams. And the todos don’t turn up in Outlook unless you choose the right one - Tasks, ToDos and Planner can all be used but they’re all independent and hidden in independent portals that your user has to remember to check in on.
Integrated in that it’s all Microsoft, yes, and all authenticated by your AD tenant. But not really integrated, thought out or planned in any useful way.
This is because 99% of teams users use those apps and options every single day. You can right click and favorite items in teams sidebars.
Tasks, todo, planner are independent because they’re different ways to handle those items, allows you to pick the one you want most. Also I believe they all are integrated with Outlook.
Also don’t forget if there’s anything you want custom or anything special you can use Flow to automate the entire system including anything external.
Your complaints kinda solidify the reason most people use and want teams. They provide multiple solutions to address the same problem so you and your team can determine the best option and workflow.
I also don’t think you need to customize it or keep it maintained, but you need someone trained in how-to use it to set it up and then explain to the team how they should use it to make things effective. It’s like having a car and a map so you can go anywhere and get there hundreds of ways and need someone with gps navigation to optimize your route for you.