Saw this somewhere else and seem to make more sense! Entrepreneurs are always talking about the big name tools like ChatGPT and Cursor! But there are so many lesser-known tools out there that quietly do incredible things. Some are niche, some are crazy powerful, and some solve problems you didn’t even realize you could automate.
So curious, what are the most slept-on tools you’ve discovered as an entrepreneur?
What are the most slept-on tools you’ve discovered as an entrepreneur?
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Great question! I have discovered many hidden gems just by being active on this community! So thanks for that first! That said, here are the I either use or the ones I remember being mentioned here:
1. Windsurf Cascade AI Agent: We find Windsurf’s AI agent to be much better than the more hyped tools like Claude Code or Cursor! We current use it with Sonnet 4.5 and it’s been super impressive! It can basically make production changes to our web app from simple prompts, test changes, and improve automatically based on memory!
2. Youform: A far cheaper alternative to Typeform! Basically their free version gives you unlimited forms with their branding! You just have to pay to remove or customize branding basically! Saves $100s of dollars for us!
3. Surfer: Their AI agent that learns all about your business and competitors to automatically publish an SEO blog every day on your website to help you improve your Google ranking is pretty impressive! It can auto identify content gaps from competitors, improve based on results etc! Much better tool than Semrush etc imo!
4. Perplexity: I think most people use ChatGPT and that is great. But for real time news and updates, Perplexity is great! You can basically setup a daily automation where it will pull relevant updates for you and auto send you a summary!
5. Sierra: Sierra is really good at auto resolving repetitive customer support tickets! It can learn from both past answers, your internal docs, faqs etc! We have gotten it to be able to resolve about 50% of all tickets instantly while rest are routed to real humans
6. Gamma: After every client meeting. I get an AI Zoom Summary, it is then automated through Gamma. Gamma generates the final PPT for myself and client on what we discuss in summary and the next steps. Clients love that.
Excited to learn from others!
emacs, i accidentally discovered it some years ago and it has saved me so much of time with its excellent plugins like magit (used for git) or org for organizing notes.
my own tools or rather i should say ability to create own tools which required lot of inertial earlier.
i created a prompt tool that allows me to mix and match my prompts with context and test it on multiple models chat interface. This used to be a big chore earlier with copying/pasting around different chat windows , tweaking them slightly, giving slightly different context etc. It has saved me so much of time.
i created another tool that auto generates minimal dashboard, this is public so you can also use it but i am simply in love with my own tool, i use it for quick analysis by visualizing data. i also use it for testing layouts and designing data although that is not what tool does or designed for its just when you get used to something you start using it in interesting ways.
i have another tool which is free and i use it for editing videos, it does not actually does editing it just lets me adjust timelines etc. and generates ffmpeg command which i use it on cli, earlier i used to do this on cli and adjusting image dimension used to be nightmare. It also allows saving single frames which are helpful in showcasing products
How come ive seen this exact same post almost daily, is this astro turfing reddit?
Following, because this is necessary. You’re great for shedding light on this. Kudos!
Half the best tools are the boring ones nobody talks about. Stuff like automation schedulers or simple database apps ends up saving more time than flashy software. People chase hype, but the quiet tools usually fix the headaches you deal with daily.