The toolset Makers Kitchen cooks use to make their millions

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Millions might be a stretch but the following is a list of tools that are recommended by the Makers Kitchen members.

Preamble

I was curious to know what toolset others were using. I find it fascinating to see what others use. The maker community is so helpful I though I would ask the question. I created a Google Spreadsheet with some columns and asked makers to add what they use under the columns or to add more columns as required. Simple 😅

Domains

Cheap Domain Names - Buy Domain Names from $0.88 - Namecheap

The only entry with multiple recommendations.

DNS

Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company | Cloudflare

The only entry with multiple recommendations.

Hosting

GitHub Pages

Followed by

Netlify: All-in-one platform for automating modern web projects

and

Web Hosting - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

CMS/Blog

Medium - a place to read and write big ideas and important stories

Followed by

Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS - WordPress

Design tools

The digital design toolkit

Followed by

Figma: the collaborative interface design tool.

Graphics

Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash

Note Taking

Notion - The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

A clear winner followed by

Best Note Taking App | Organize Your Notes with Evernote

Communication

Where work happens

Followed by

Telegram - a new era of messaging

Time

There™ - Work across timezones efficiently & remotely

Productivity

f.lux

Followed by

Alfred - Productivity App for Mac OS X

and

https://www.rescuetime.com

Language

Node.js

Followed by

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

and

React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

Code Hosting

The most contentious of the lot 🤷‍♂

Joint #1

The only single product for the entire DevOps lifecycle - GitLab

and

Build software better, together

Closely followed by

Bitbucket | The Git solution for professional teams

Issue Management

Trello

Followed by

Notion - The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

Editor

Clear winner in this category

Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined

Browser

Google Chrome Web Browser

well ahead of

Internet for people, not profit

Chat

Joint #1

Crisp | Customer Messaging For Startups

Drift - Conversational Marketing Platform

Screen Recording

Not many in this category

Kap - Capture your screen

To Do

A clear winner

Trello

VPN

Not many in this category

NordVPN: Best VPN Service Provider | #1 Editors' Choice

Streaming

The only suggestion

Twitch

API

Clear winner

Postman

Email

G Suite - Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar and More for Business

Conclusion

It was a fun little exercise to run.

The sample size was quite small but I hope that you can find value or inspiration here.

If there are any obvious omission please add them to the comments 👇

At a later date I might run another version. Suggestions of the best way to capture the toolset also appreciated 👇