I scraped 25K comments to find which AI tools are most mentioned by entrepreneurs

I recently saw a post here blow up mostly on tools that help with making money, where OP scrapped comments to find most mentioned tools that helped people make money. As an entrepreneur, I was more interested in tools used by entrepreneurs which helps run businesses betters!

Given the interest, i scraped another 25K+ comments across social media to see which AI tools are most mentioned in threads related to entrepreneurship! GPT 5 deep research were used to analyze the data. I also used semantic based filters to remove tools that weren't really relevant to running businesses!

Here’s the list:

1. ChatGPT: Super obvious why this is the top one. I use it daily for brainstorming etc. It even helped me create this report haha!
2. Claude: Very similar to ChatGPT but some people tend to prefer this. Close contender
3. Perplexity: Now this is more of a wrapper around other models but the major advantage is that its better for real time data- around things that are actively happening and changing around the works!
4. Bolt & Lovable: Bolt and Lovable were tied as the most mentioned tools that help you create web apps and websites without having to write code using AI agents!
5. Midjourney – An AI that turns written prompts into highly stylized images, mostly used for concept art, illustrations, or moodboards.
6. Google Veo – An experimental Google tool that makes short video clips based on text prompts you type in.
7. Cursor: An full IDE that helps engineers and teams write code faster using AI.
8. Windsurf: Very similarly to Cursor but few people mentioned their Cascade AI agent was better at doing tasks end to end!
9. Clay – Software that runs automated outbound sales campaigns (like sending cold emails) and tries to handle responses the way a sales rep would.
10. SurferSEO:  An AI agent that learns all about your business and competitors to automatically publish an SEO blog every day on your website helping us improve our Google ranking. 
11. V0 by Vercel – Software that runs automated outbound sales campaigns (like sending cold emails) and tries to handle responses the way a sales rep would similar to Clay.
12. GitHub Copilot: Similarly to Cursor and Windsurf but its a plugin that plugs into your existing IDE rather than a completely new IDE!
13. Playground – A creative sandbox for generating AI images and editing them with sliders, layers, and text prompts.
14. RunwayML – A video editing program that uses AI for things like removing backgrounds, adding effects, or generating clips from text prompts.I

im sure some are missing so feel free to share them below and explain why you love using it 🙂