Standard tools and platforms

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• Common Paper

  Tool

  A contract company for startups that publishes free, standard agreements anyone may use and…

  Official site: https://commonpaper.com

• NVIDIA

  Organization, tool

  NVIDIA makes GPUs, chips that help computers train AI models and run them to produce answers.

  Official site: https://www.nvidia.com

• Gemini

  Tool

  Google's AI chat assistant, which people type or talk to.

  Official site: https://gemini.google.com

• GitHub

  Tool

  A website where developers store code repositories, review each other's changes and work on…

  Official site: https://github.com

• JavaScript

  Tool

  The programming language that runs in every web browser, and also on servers.

  Official site: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/JavaScript

• Amazon Web Services

  Tool

  Amazon's cloud provider, usually called AWS.

  Official site: https://aws.amazon.com

• Claude Code

  Tool

  An AI coding agent made by Anthropic.

  Official site: https://claude.com/product/claude-code

• Lovable

  Tool

  An AI app builder.

  Official site: https://lovable.dev

• shadcn/ui

  Tool

  A free set of interface components, such as buttons, dialogs, forms and tables, that become part…

  Official site: https://ui.shadcn.com

• ChatGPT

  Tool

  An AI chat assistant made by OpenAI.

  Official site: https://chatgpt.com

• Git

  Tool

  The free, open source version control program that almost every software team uses.

  Official site: https://git-scm.com

• WordPress

  Tool

  Free, open-source software for building and running websites and blogs, used by a large share of…

  Official site: https://wordpress.org

• Google Cloud

  Tool

  Google's cloud provider.

  Official site: https://cloud.google.com

• Google Workspace

  Tool

  Google's paid set of work apps for a company: Gmail on the company's own domain, Calendar, Drive…

  Official site: https://workspace.google.com

• React

  Tool

  A JavaScript library for building user interfaces out of reusable pieces called components.

  Official site: https://react.dev

• Slack

  Tool

  A team chat tool owned by Salesforce.

  Official site: https://slack.com

• Claude

  Tool

  An AI chat assistant made by Anthropic.

  Official site: https://claude.com

• Cloudflare

  Tool

  A company that runs a global network for websites and apps.

  Official site: https://www.cloudflare.com

• Codex

  Tool

  OpenAI's AI coding agent.

  Official site: https://developers.openai.com/codex

• Netlify

  Tool

  A hosting platform for websites and web apps.

  Official site: https://www.netlify.com

• Palo Alto Networks

  Organization, tool

  A cybersecurity company that sells firewalls and security software to businesses, schools and…

  Official site: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com

• Stripe

  Tool

  A payments platform.

  Official site: https://stripe.com

• Supabase

  Tool

  An open source back end platform built on the Postgres database.

  Official site: https://supabase.com

• .NET

  Tool

  A free, open-source platform from Microsoft for building apps for the web, Windows, phones and the…

  Official site: https://dotnet.microsoft.com

• Coursera

  Tool

  An online learning platform with courses and professional certificates from universities and…

  Official site: https://www.coursera.org

• Figma

  Tool

  A collaborative design tool.

  Official site: https://www.figma.com

• GitHub Actions

  Tool

  GitHub's service for running automatic jobs when code changes, such as running tests and deploying…

  Official site: https://github.com/features/actions

• GitLab

  Tool

  A platform for hosting code repositories, reviewing changes and running automatic builds.

  Official site: https://about.gitlab.com

• Linux

  Tool

  A free, open-source operating system family.

  Official site: https://www.kernel.org

• Microsoft Azure

  Tool

  Microsoft's cloud provider.

  Official site: https://azure.microsoft.com

• Vercel

  Tool

  A platform for deploying and hosting web apps.

  Official site: https://vercel.com

• Vertex AI

  Tool

  Google Cloud's platform for building, running and evaluating AI models and agents in a business…

  Official site: https://cloud.google.com/products/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform

• Windows

  Tool

  Microsoft's operating system for personal computers, the most common one on office desktops and…

  Official site: https://www.microsoft.com/windows

• Apollo

  Tool

  A sales tool with a database of business contacts and companies, used to find prospects and send…

  Official site: https://www.apollo.io

• Cursor

  Tool

  An AI code editor and coding agent made by the company Anysphere.

  Official site: https://cursor.com

• Firebase

  Tool

  Google's platform for building app back ends, with a database, login, file storage and hosting as…

  Official site: https://firebase.google.com

• Gemma

  Tool

  Google's family of open-weights AI models, small enough that some run on a laptop or phone.

  Official site: https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/

• GitHub Copilot

  Tool

  An AI coding assistant made by GitHub.

  Official site: https://github.com/features/copilot

• Google Ads

  Tool

  Google's advertising service.

  Official site: https://business.google.com/us/google-ads/

• Google Analytics

  Tool

  Google's free web analytics service.

  Official site: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/

• Google DeepMind

  Organization

  Google's AI research team, formed by combining Google Brain and DeepMind.

  Official site: https://deepmind.google

• LinkedIn

  Tool

  A social network for work.

  Official site: https://www.linkedin.com

• Llama

  Tool

  Meta's family of AI models whose weights are published for download.

  Official site: https://www.llama.com

• macOS

  Tool

  Apple's operating system for Mac computers.

  Official site: https://www.apple.com/macos/

• Microsoft Teams

  Tool

  Microsoft's chat and video meeting app for companies, part of Microsoft 365.

  Official site: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-teams

• Notion

  Tool

  A workspace app for notes, documents, wikis, task lists and simple databases, shared with a team.

  Official site: https://www.notion.com

• PostgreSQL

  Tool

  A free, open-source relational database known for reliability.

  Official site: https://www.postgresql.org

• promptfoo

  Tool

  An open-source tool for testing prompts and AI apps.

  Official site: https://www.promptfoo.dev

• Replit

  Tool

  An online platform for writing, running and hosting code in a browser, with an AI agent that can…

  Official site: https://replit.com

• v0

  Tool

  Vercel's AI app builder.

  Official site: https://v0.app

• YouTube

  Tool

  Google's video sharing site, where anyone can upload videos and viewers can watch and subscribe.

  Official site: https://www.youtube.com

• Amazon Bedrock

  Tool

  An AWS service that gives access to AI models from several companies through one API, inside a…

  Official site: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/

• Amazon Q

  Tool

  Amazon Web Services' AI assistant, now focused on developers: it helps write, review and run code…

  Official site: https://aws.amazon.com/q/

• AMD

  Organization, tool

  A chip company that makes processors for computers and servers and AI accelerators for data centers.

  Official site: https://www.amd.com

• Apple Notes

  Tool

  The free note-taking app built into iPhones, iPads and Macs.

  Official site: https://www.apple.com/icloud/

• Arduino

  Tool

  An open-source electronics platform of small boards and free software for building devices that…

  Official site: https://www.arduino.cc

• Basecamp

  Tool

  A project management and team communication tool made by 37signals.

  Official site: https://basecamp.com

• ChatGPT Sites

  Tool

  A ChatGPT and Codex feature for creating, previewing, publishing and sharing simple websites and…

  Official site: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001339

• Claude Cowork

  Tool

  Anthropic's name for Claude carrying out multi-step tasks across a person's files and tools, such…

  Official site: https://claude.com/product/cowork

• Drizzle

  Tool

  An open-source TypeScript library for working with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL and SQLite.

  Official site: https://orm.drizzle.team

• Dropbox

  Tool

  An online file storage and sharing service.

  Official site: https://www.dropbox.com

• FFmpeg

  Tool

  Free, open-source command-line software for converting, cutting and combining audio and video files.

  Official site: https://ffmpeg.org

• Frontend Masters

  Organization, tool

  An online learning platform for software developers, now called Master.dev, with in-depth courses…

  Official site: https://master.dev

• GoDaddy

  Tool

  A company that sells domain names, along with web hosting and business email.

  Official site: https://www.godaddy.com

• Google Chrome

  Tool

  Google's web browser, the most widely used one.

  Official site: https://www.google.com/chrome/

• Google Docs

  Tool

  Google's online word processor.

  Official site: https://workspace.google.com/products/docs/

• Google Drive

  Tool

  Google's online file storage.

  Official site: https://workspace.google.com/products/drive/

• Google Tag Manager

  Tool

  A free Google tool for adding and managing tracking code, such as analytics and ad tags, on a…

  Official site: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/tag-manager/

• Hacker News

  Tool

  A news and discussion site about technology and startups run by Y Combinator.

  Official site: https://news.ycombinator.com

• Hugging Face

  Tool

  A platform where the machine learning community shares AI models, datasets and demo apps.

  Official site: https://huggingface.co

• Meta Conversions API

  Tool

  A Meta service that lets a business send sales and signup events from its own server to Meta, so…

  Official site: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/conversions-api/

• Microsoft Excel

  Tool

  Microsoft's spreadsheet app, part of Microsoft 365.

  Official site: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/excel

• Next.js

  Tool

  A framework built on React for making full websites and web apps, including pages rendered on the…

  Official site: https://nextjs.org

• OBS Studio

  Tool

  Free, open-source software for recording and live-streaming video, mixing camera, screen and audio…

  Official site: https://obsproject.com

• Python

  Tool

  A programming language known for being easy to read.

  Official site: https://www.python.org

• QuickBooks

  Tool

  Accounting software from Intuit for small businesses, used for bookkeeping, invoices, expenses and…

  Official site: https://quickbooks.intuit.com

• React Native

  Tool

  A framework from Meta for building iPhone and Android apps with React and JavaScript, sharing most…

  Official site: https://reactnative.dev

• Salesforce

  Tool

  A large company whose main product is software for tracking customers, deals and sales teams, a…

  Official site: https://www.salesforce.com

• Seamless.AI

  Tool

  A sales tool that searches for business contact details, such as email addresses and phone…

  Official site: https://seamless.ai

• SQLite

  Tool

  A small, free database that keeps everything in a single file and runs inside the app itself, with…

  Official site: https://sqlite.org

• Tailwind CSS

  Tool

  A styling framework for websites.

  Official site: https://tailwindcss.com

• TypeScript

  Tool

  JavaScript with types added.

  Official site: https://www.typescriptlang.org

• Webflow

  Tool

  A visual website builder and host.

  Official site: https://webflow.com

• Wix

  Tool

  A website builder and host aimed at small businesses.

  Official site: https://www.wix.com

• Xcode

  Tool

  Apple's free app for building software for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

  Official site: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Tool

  Adobe's professional video editing app, used to cut, color and finish videos for film, TV and the…

  Official site: https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html

• Amazon Quick Sight

  Tool

  An AWS service for building dashboards and reports from a company's data, with AI help for asking…

  Official site: https://aws.amazon.com/quick/quicksight/

• Amazon S3

  Tool

  Amazon Web Services' object storage.

  Official site: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

• Arc

  Tool

  A web browser made by The Browser Company that organizes tabs in a sidebar and into separate spaces.

  Official site: https://arc.net

• Base44

  Tool

  An AI app builder.

  Official site: https://base44.com

• Bitbucket

  Tool

  A code hosting platform for Git repositories, with code review and built-in pipelines.

  Official site: https://bitbucket.org

• Bolt

  Tool

  StackBlitz's AI app builder at bolt.new.

  Official site: https://bolt.new

• Braintrust

  Tool

  A platform for evaluating and monitoring AI products.

  Official site: https://www.braintrust.dev

• Bubble

  Tool

  A no-code app builder made by Bubble Group.

  Official site: https://bubble.io

• Cloudflare D1

  Tool

  Cloudflare's managed database built on SQLite, used by apps running on Cloudflare's network.

  Official site: https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/

• Cloudflare R2

  Tool

  Cloudflare's object storage for files such as images and video.

  Official site: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/

• Coassemble

  Tool

  A platform for building online training courses, which companies use to train staff and customers…

  Official site: https://coassemble.com

• Convex

  Tool

  A hosted back end for web apps that combines a database with server functions written in…

  Official site: https://www.convex.dev

• CUDA

  Tool

  NVIDIA's platform for writing software that runs on its GPUs.

  Official site: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda/toolkit

• Directus

  Tool

  An open-source tool that puts an admin app and an API on top of a SQL database, so non-developers…

  Official site: https://directus.com

• Display & Video 360

  Tool

  Google's platform for large advertisers and agencies to buy display, video and streaming ads…

  Official site: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/display-video-360/

• Docker

  Tool

  Software for packaging an app and everything it needs into a container that runs the same way on…

  Official site: https://www.docker.com

• DocuSign

  Tool

  A service for signing documents electronically.

  Official site: https://www.docusign.com

• Eventbrite

  Tool

  A platform for listing events and selling tickets.

  Official site: https://www.eventbrite.com

• Gemini Notebook

  Tool

  A Google research tool, formerly called NotebookLM, that answers questions using the documents a…

  Official site: https://notebook.google

• Gemini Prompt Optimizer

  Tool

  A Google Cloud tool that rewrites a prompt's instructions and tests the versions against examples…

  Official site: https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/prompts/prompt-optimizer

• Gen AI Evaluation Service

  Tool

  A part of Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, formerly Vertex AI, that scores the…

  Official site: https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/evaluation-overview

• GitHub Desktop

  Tool

  A free app from GitHub that lets you use Git through buttons instead of typed commands: see…

  Official site: https://desktop.github.com

• Google Ad Manager

  Tool

  Google's platform for websites and apps that sell ad space, to manage and show ads on their own…

  Official site: https://admanager.google.com

• Google AI Studio

  Tool

  Google's web tool for trying Gemini models, testing prompts and getting an API key to build them…

  Official site: https://aistudio.google.com

• Google Antigravity

  Tool

  Google's coding tool built around AI agents.

  Official site: https://antigravity.google

• Google Calendar

  Tool

  Google's online calendar for scheduling events and meetings, inviting others and sharing…

  Official site: https://workspace.google.com/products/calendar/

• Google Classroom

  Tool

  Google's free tool for teachers to share assignments, grade work and talk with students.

  Official site: https://edu.google.com/workspace-for-education/products/classroom/

• Google Flow

  Tool

  A Google tool for making short films with AI, built on its Veo video models.

  Official site: https://flow.google.com

• Google Forms

  Tool

  Google's free tool for making forms, surveys and quizzes.

  Official site: https://workspace.google.com/products/forms/

• Google Meet

  Tool

  Google's video meeting service, built into Google Calendar and Gmail.

  Official site: https://workspace.google.com/products/meet/

• Google Sheets

  Tool

  Google's online spreadsheet app.

  Official site: https://workspace.google.com/products/sheets/

• Grok

  Tool

  An AI chat assistant made by xAI.

  Official site: https://grok.com

• IBM

  Organization, tool

  A large technology company that sells software, consulting and computing infrastructure to…

  Official site: https://www.ibm.com

• Indie Hackers

  Tool

  An online community where founders share how they build profitable, often self-funded, businesses…

  Official site: https://www.indiehackers.com

• Kajabi

  Tool

  A platform for creators and businesses to sell online courses, memberships and coaching, with a…

  Official site: https://kajabi.com

• Kindful

  Tool

  Donor management software for nonprofits, used to track donors, gifts and communications.

  Official site: https://kindful.com

• LM Studio

  Tool

  A free desktop app for downloading open AI models and running them on a person's own computer…

  Official site: https://lmstudio.ai

• LucidLink

  Tool

  A cloud file service that lets teams open large files, such as video projects, as if they were on…

  Official site: https://www.lucidlink.com

• Luma

  Tool

  An event platform for creating event pages, taking registrations, selling tickets and emailing…

  Official site: https://luma.com

• MacWhisper

  Tool

  A Mac app that transcribes audio and video files and dictation on the computer itself, using open…

  Official site: https://www.macwhisper.com

• Meta AI

  Tool

  Meta's AI assistant, available in its own app and inside Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and…

  Official site: https://www.meta.ai

• Microsoft 365 Copilot

  Tool

  Microsoft's AI assistant built into its work apps, such as Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.

  Official site: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/copilot

• npm

  Tool

  The standard package manager for JavaScript, and the public registry that holds millions of shared…

  Official site: https://www.npmjs.com

• Obsidian

  Tool

  A note-taking app that keeps notes as plain Markdown files on a person's own computer.

  Official site: https://obsidian.md

• ONNX

  Tool

  An open file format for AI models, so a model trained with one tool can run with another, on…

  Official site: https://onnx.ai

• Perplexity

  Tool

  An AI search tool.

  Official site: https://www.perplexity.ai

• Playwright

  Tool

  An open-source tool from Microsoft that controls web browsers automatically, used to test that a…

  Official site: https://playwright.dev

• Rclone

  Tool

  Free, open-source command-line software for copying and syncing files between a computer and many…

  Official site: https://rclone.org

• Relay

  Tool

  An online business banking app for small businesses, with several accounts and cards to organize…

  Official site: https://relayfi.com

• Shopify

  Tool

  An ecommerce platform for building and running an online store, with product pages, checkout…

  Official site: https://www.shopify.com

• Sign in with ChatGPT

  Tool

  A way for other apps and websites to let people log in with their ChatGPT account.

  Official site: https://developers.openai.com/siwc/quickstart

• Stripe Atlas

  Tool

  A service from Stripe that forms a US company for founders.

  Official site: https://stripe.com/atlas

• Twilio

  Tool

  A cloud service developers use to send and receive text messages, phone calls and email from their…

  Official site: https://www.twilio.com

• Video.js

  Tool

  An open-source web video player.

  Official site: https://videojs.org

• WhatsApp

  Tool

  A messaging app for text, voice notes, calls and group chats, used widely around the world.

  Official site: https://www.whatsapp.com

• Windows Forms

  Tool

  A Microsoft framework for building desktop apps for Windows with .NET.

  Official site: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/desktop/winforms/

• Windows Presentation Foundation

  Tool

  A Microsoft framework for building Windows desktop apps with .NET, with richer layouts and…

  Official site: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/desktop/wpf/

• WP Engine

  Tool

  A hosting company that specializes in WordPress sites.

  Official site: https://wpengine.com

• 1Password

  Tool

  A password manager.

  Official site: https://1password.com

• AI Overviews

  Tool

  AI-written summaries that Google Search shows at the top of some results, with links to the pages…

  Official site: https://search.google/ways-to-search/ai-overviews/

• Android Studio

  Tool

  Google's free app for building Android apps, with a code editor, phone emulators and tools for…

  Official site: https://developer.android.com/studio

• Apple Foundation Models

  Tool

  Apple's on-device AI model and the framework that lets app developers use it on iPhone, iPad and…

  Official site: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels

• Apple Pay

  Tool

  Apple's way to pay with an iPhone, Apple Watch or Mac, in stores, in apps and on websites, using…

  Official site: https://www.apple.com/apple-pay/

• Apple Shortcuts

  Tool

  An app on iPhone, iPad and Mac for building small automations that chain together actions across…

  Official site: https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios

• Artificial Analysis

  Tool

  An independent company that tests and compares AI models and providers on quality, speed and…

  Official site: https://artificialanalysis.ai

• Bevy

  Tool

  A platform for companies and organizations that run online and local communities, with event…

  Official site: https://bevy.com

• Blackboard

  Tool

  Software colleges use to run online courses, with assignments, grades and class materials.

  Official site: https://www.blackboard.com

• Blue J

  Tool

  An AI research tool for tax professionals.

  Official site: https://www.bluej.com

• C#

  Tool

  A programming language made by Microsoft and used with .NET for business software, Windows apps…

  Official site: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/

• Cal.com

  Tool

  Open-source scheduling software.

  Official site: https://cal.com

• Capacitor

  Tool

  An open-source tool that wraps a web app so it can be published as an iPhone or Android app with…

  Official site: https://capacitorjs.com

• cPanel

  Tool

  A control panel that many web hosting companies give customers for managing a website, email…

  Official site: https://cpanel.net

• Crestron

  Tool

  A company that makes control systems for rooms and buildings, such as touch panels that run a…

  Official site: https://www.crestron.com

• Custom GPTs

  Tool

  Versions of ChatGPT that a person sets up for one job, with their own instructions, files and…

  Official site: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpts/

• Dante

  Tool

  A system from Audinate that sends many channels of audio over an ordinary computer network instead…

  Official site: https://www.getdante.com

• Dia

  Tool

  A web browser made by The Browser Company with an AI assistant built in that can read and act on…

  Official site: https://www.diabrowser.com

• Discord

  Tool

  A chat app built around communities called servers, with text channels, voice rooms and video.

  Official site: https://discord.com

• DocSend

  Tool

  A service for sharing documents by secure link and seeing who opened them and which pages they read.

  Official site: https://www.docsend.com

• Elasticsearch

  Tool

  Software for fast searching across large amounts of text and data, from Elastic.

  Official site: https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

• Expo

  Tool

  A set of tools and services for building, testing and publishing React Native apps, including…

  Official site: https://expo.dev

• Firecrawl

  Tool

  A service that turns web pages into clean text that AI models can use.

  Official site: https://www.firecrawl.dev

• Formula.js

  Tool

  An open-source JavaScript library that recreates spreadsheet functions, such as SUM and VLOOKUP…

  Official site: https://formulajs.info

• FunctionGemma

  Tool

  A small Gemma model from Google tuned to turn plain requests into function calls, so an app or…

  Official site: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/functiongemma

• Gamma

  Tool

  An AI tool that makes slide presentations, documents and simple web pages from a prompt or notes.

  Official site: https://gamma.app

• Gemini Live

  Tool

  A mode of the Gemini app for talking with Gemini out loud in real time, and showing it the phone's…

  Official site: https://gemini.google/overview/gemini-live/

• Genesys

  Tool

  A software company whose platform runs customer contact centers: phone, chat and email queues…

  Official site: https://www.genesys.com

• Ghostty

  Tool

  A free, open-source terminal app for macOS and Linux, known for speed.

  Official site: https://ghostty.org

• GitHub Pages

  Tool

  A free GitHub service that publishes a static website straight from a repository.

  Official site: https://pages.github.com

• Givebutter

  Tool

  A fundraising platform for nonprofits, with donation pages, event ticketing and a donor database.

  Official site: https://givebutter.com

• Gmail

  Tool

  Google's email service.

  Official site: https://workspace.google.com/products/gmail/

• Google AI Edge Gallery

  Tool

  A free Google app for phones that downloads open AI models and runs them on the device, with no…

  Official site: https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery

• Google Maps

  Tool

  Google's map and directions service.

  Official site: https://www.google.com/maps

• Granola

  Tool

  An AI notepad for meetings.

  Official site: https://www.granola.ai

• Hex

  Tool

  A free, open-source voice dictation app that turns speech into text on the person's own computer…

  Official site: https://anoma.ly/hex/

• Hotjar

  Tool

  A tool that shows how visitors use a website, with heatmaps of where they click and recordings of…

  Official site: https://www.hotjar.com

• Linktree

  Tool

  A service that makes one simple page holding a list of links, often used as the single link in a…

  Official site: https://linktr.ee

• LMArena

  Tool

  A public website, now called Arena, where people compare answers from two anonymous AI models and…

  Official site: https://arena.ai

• Mailchimp

  Tool

  An email marketing service for building mailing lists and sending newsletters and campaigns.

  Official site: https://mailchimp.com

• Matomo

  Tool

  Open-source web analytics software that a site can host itself, so visitor data stays with the…

  Official site: https://matomo.org

• Mermaid

  Tool

  An open-source tool that draws diagrams, such as flowcharts and system maps, from short text…

  Official site: https://mermaid.js.org

• Meshtastic

  Tool

  An open-source project that uses small, cheap radios to send text messages over a mesh network…

  Official site: https://meshtastic.org

• MicroGPT

  Tool

  A very small GPT language model written by Andrej Karpathy in a few hundred lines of plain Python…

  Official site: https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/

• Microsoft Access

  Tool

  A desktop database app from Microsoft for building small databases with forms and reports.

  Official site: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/access

• Microsoft PowerPoint

  Tool

  Microsoft's app for making slide presentations, part of Microsoft 365.

  Official site: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/powerpoint

• Midjourney

  Tool

  An AI tool that makes images from text prompts.

  Official site: https://www.midjourney.com

• Model Garden

  Tool

  A catalog in Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, formerly Vertex AI, where teams find…

  Official site: https://cloud.google.com/model-garden

• MongoDB

  Tool

  A database that stores records as flexible documents instead of rows in fixed tables.

  Official site: https://www.mongodb.com

• Netlify Forms

  Tool

  A Netlify feature that collects form submissions from a site hosted there, with no back-end code…

  Official site: https://docs.netlify.com/manage/forms/setup/

• npx

  Tool

  A command that comes with npm and runs a JavaScript package's tool without installing it…

  Official site: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/commands/npx

• Observe.AI

  Tool

  Software for customer contact centers that uses AI to transcribe and analyze calls and to assist…

  Official site: https://www.observe.ai

• OpenClaw

  Tool

  An open-source AI agent that a person runs on their own computer or server.

  Official site: https://openclaw.ai

• openSUSE

  Tool

  A free version of Linux made by a community project, used on desktops and servers.

  Official site: https://www.opensuse.org

• PayPal

  Tool

  An online payments company.

  Official site: https://www.paypal.com

• PHP

  Tool

  A programming language for building websites on the server.

  Official site: https://www.php.net

• Player.js

  Tool

  An open-source JavaScript library that lets a web page control embedded video players, such as…

  Official site: https://github.com/embedly/player.js

• pnpm

  Tool

  A JavaScript package manager that works like npm but saves disk space and installs faster by…

  Official site: https://pnpm.io

• Power Automate

  Tool

  Microsoft's tool for automating steps between apps, such as saving email attachments to a folder…

  Official site: https://www.microsoft.com/power-platform/products/power-automate

• ProductOS

  Tool

  An AI platform that takes a product idea through research, a written spec, design, code and…

  Official site: https://productos.dev

• Q-SYS

  Tool

  An audio, video and control platform from QSC, used to run sound and video in conference rooms…

  Official site: https://www.qsys.com

• Raspberry Pi

  Tool

  A small, low-cost computer on a single board, used for learning, prototypes and sensors.

  Official site: https://www.raspberrypi.com

• React Flow

  Tool

  An open-source React library for building node-based diagrams and editors, where people drag boxes…

  Official site: https://reactflow.dev

• Redux

  Tool

  A JavaScript library for keeping an app's shared data, called state, in one place, so every screen…

  Official site: https://redux.js.org

• Rust

  Tool

  A programming language for fast, reliable software that prevents many memory bugs before the…

  Official site: https://www.rust-lang.org

• Safari

  Tool

  Apple's web browser, built into iPhones, iPads and Macs.

  Official site: https://www.apple.com/safari/

• Scratch

  Tool

  A free block-based coding language and online community for young people, made at MIT.

  Official site: https://scratch.mit.edu

• Signal

  Tool

  A messaging app for texts, calls and groups that encrypts messages from end to end.

  Official site: https://signal.org

• Substack

  Tool

  A platform for publishing newsletters and blogs.

  Official site: https://substack.com

• Superwhisper

  Tool

  A speech-to-text app for computers and phones.

  Official site: https://superwhisper.com

• T3 Code

  Tool

  An open-source desktop app for running and managing several AI coding agents, such as Codex and…

  Official site: https://t3.codes

• TaxDome

  Tool

  Practice management software for accounting and tax firms, with a client portal, workflows…

  Official site: https://taxdome.com

• Ubuntu

  Tool

  A popular, free version of Linux made by Canonical, used on servers, in the cloud and on desktops.

  Official site: https://ubuntu.com

• Veo

  Tool

  Google DeepMind's family of AI models that make video, with sound, from text or image prompts.

  Official site: https://deepmind.google/models/veo/

• Vimeo

  Tool

  A video hosting service aimed at businesses and creators.

  Official site: https://vimeo.com

• Wing

  Organization

  A drone delivery company that started in the labs of Google.

  Official site: https://wing.com

• WinUI

  Tool

  Microsoft's current framework for the look and controls of modern Windows apps.

  Official site: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/winui/

• Wispr Flow

  Tool

  A dictation app for computers and phones.

  Official site: https://wisprflow.ai

• WPBakery

  Tool

  A drag-and-drop page builder plugin for WordPress, sold separately.

  Official site: https://wpbakery.com

• xcbeautify

  Tool

  A small open-source command-line tool that makes the long build output of Xcode easier to read.

  Official site: https://github.com/cpisciotta/xcbeautify

• Zen Browser

  Tool

  A free, open-source web browser based on Firefox, with vertical tabs and a focus on privacy.

  Official site: https://zen-browser.app

• Zoom

  Tool

  A video meeting service for calls, webinars and recorded meetings.

  Official site: https://www.zoom.com

• Adobe Dynamic Link

  Tool

  A feature that links Adobe's video and effects apps, such as Premiere Pro and After Effects, so…

  Official site: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere/desktop/use-premiere-with-other-apps/working-with-other-adobe-applications/share-assets-between-after-effects-and-premiere-using-dynamic-link.html

• ArcGIS

  Tool

  Mapping and geographic data software from Esri, used by governments and companies to analyze and…

  Official site: https://www.arcgis.com

• Buildertrend

  Tool

  Project management software for home builders and remodelers, covering schedules, budgets and…

  Official site: https://buildertrend.com

• Crestron AirMedia

  Tool

  A Crestron system for showing a laptop or phone screen on a room's display wirelessly.

  Official site: https://www.crestron.com/Products/Featured-Solutions/AirMedia

• Drizzle Studio

  Tool

  A visual browser for a database set up with Drizzle, where developers can view and edit the rows…

  Official site: https://orm.drizzle.team/drizzle-studio/overview

• Drools

  Tool

  An open-source business rules engine written in Java, now part of the Apache KIE project.

  Official site: https://www.drools.org

• Google Business Profile

  Tool

  A free listing that shows a business's hours, location, photos and reviews in Google Search and…

  Official site: https://business.google.com/us/business-profile/

• Gravity Forms

  Tool

  A paid WordPress plugin for building forms such as contact forms, signups and surveys.

  Official site: https://www.gravityforms.com

• Gutenberg

  Tool

  The block editor built into WordPress.

  Official site: https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/

• HeyClicky

  Tool

  An AI assistant app for Mac and Windows that sits on the desktop and helps with what is on the…

  Official site: https://www.heyclicky.com

• HiHello

  Tool

  A service for digital business cards, shared by QR code or link instead of paper, with email…

  Official site: https://www.hihello.com

• JobsEQ

  Tool

  A labor market data tool from Chmura that shows job openings, wages and workforce trends for a…

  Official site: https://www.chmura.com/jobseq

• Medium

  Tool

  A website where anyone can publish articles and readers can follow writers.

  Official site: https://medium.com

• Netlify Blobs

  Tool

  A Netlify service for storing files and data from a site or app on Netlify, without setting up a…

  Official site: https://docs.netlify.com/build/data-and-storage/netlify-blobs/

• Pangram

  Tool

  A tool that estimates whether a piece of writing was produced by AI.

  Official site: https://www.pangram.com

• Planning Center

  Tool

  Software for churches to manage people, volunteers, services, giving, groups and check-ins.

  Official site: https://www.planningcenter.com

• Playbook.com

  Tool

  A cloud service for storing, organizing and sharing creative files such as images, videos and…

  Official site: https://www.playbook.com

• Printful

  Tool

  A print-on-demand service.

  Official site: https://www.printful.com

• reMarkable

  Tool

  A paper-like tablet for handwriting, sketching and reading documents.

  Official site: https://remarkable.com

• Riipen

  Tool

  A platform that connects college students and instructors with employers for short, real work…

  Official site: https://www.riipen.com

• SoundCloud

  Tool

  A site for uploading and sharing music and audio, popular with independent artists and podcasters.

  Official site: https://soundcloud.com

• YouVersion

  Tool

  The maker of the Bible App, a free app for reading and listening to the Bible, along with tools…

  Official site: https://www.youversion.com