5 best tools to build your next app
Use these tools to help you develop your product quickly!

The Social Network may have shown the cool side of creating websites and apps, but in no way is the startup life that easy. In fact, one of the biggest challenges startups have to face is turning ideas their ideas into reality and getting people to back them up. It’s not everyday that you come across the next big thing and get handed a million bucks out of nowhere, so when you do get the chance to pitch to VC’s, you have to come prepared — with your MVP (“Minimum Viable Product”).
Here are some tools that our engineers highly recommend to use to get your prototype up and running quickly:
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This tool is known for its impressive API-prototyping and testing capabilities with split-stack development that allows frontend and backend developers to simultaneously work which essentials speeds up the workflow with regards to debugging, automation, documentation, monitoring, and publishing. Postman has various packages available depending on the size of your team, but the most basic one is free.
You can use this cross-platform text editor for editing local files and code bases to run seamlessly. Sublime Text supports Syntax Highlight, Auto Indentation, File Type Recognition, and more, so you can maximize its ability to solve linker errors, keeping track of files and folders, connectivity with version control systems like Git, Mercurial, amongst other benefits. Sublime Text is free to download but a license needs to be purchased to use it.
This is a free, lightning fast, open-source, cross-platform code editor that boasts a boosted edit-build-debug flow which allows you to focus on executing your ideas faster with the help of developer tooling, like IntelliSense code completion, Git Integration, syntax highlighting, and more. Visual Studio Code adapts with you through plugins created by Microsoft or by the coding community.
Last, but not the least — Git is an open-source, distributed version control system that ensures zero code conflict as you and your developers work on your code. It’s highly reliable when it comes to keeping track of changes in any set of files, so you have the ability to return to any previous version of your work. Git is free, easy-to-learn, and super fast!
Now, take your pick and start coding your way to a well-designed MVP in time for your first pitch!
