Apps & Services of Choice
Here’s a list of my apps of choice. This list mainly contains SaaS apps, but might also contain assorted desktop apps, service providers or even physical hardware. Wherever I have a preference in a particular category, I’ve tried to list it.
My criteria for choosing an app usually surrounds its popularity, availability of an open API, and sleek design.
If you want to integrate a custom solution involving any of the apps below, chances are I can help you.
Any of this may change at any time. Got suggestions? Let me know!
- Accounting: Xero
- Automation: IFTTT / Zapier
- Backups: Time Capsule / Dropbox
- Bible: YouVersion
- Bill Splitting: Splitwise
- Browser: Google Chrome
- Calendar: Google Calendar / Google Apps
- Calendar (Tools): Calendly
- Chat (Personal): Facebook Messenger
- Chat (Work): Slack
- Code Editor: AWS Cloud9 / Visual Studio Code
- Contact Management: Google Contacts
- Containerisation: Docker
- Content Management System: WordPress
- Continuous Integration: Travis CI / Appveyor (for Windows)
- Customer Relationship Management: ProsperWorks
- Dashboard: Klipfolio
- Database: MySQL / PostgreSQL / AWS DynamoDB (NoSQL)
- DNS Management: Cloudflare / AWS Route 53
- Domain Names: enom / TPP Wholesale
- Electricity: PowerShop
- Email: Gmail / Google Apps
- Email (Marketing): MailChimp
- Email (Notifications): AWS SNS
- Email (Tools): MixMax
- Email (Transactional): SendGrid / Mailgun / AWS SES
- Event Ticketing: Eventbrite
- Expense Management: Expensify
- File Management: Google Drive / Dropbox
- Fitness Tracking: Fitbit / Strava
- Frontend Bundler/Task Runner: gulp or webpack
- Food Finding: Zomato
- Food Ordering: UberEats / Skip / Menulog
- Laptop: MacBook Pro
- Linux Distribution: Ubuntu
- Log Aggregation: Papertrail
- Maps: Google Maps
- Media Centre: Apple TV
- Music: Spotify
- Note-taking: Evernote
- Office Suite: Google Docs / Sheets / Slides
- Password Management: LastPass
- Payment Gateway: Stripe / Square / PayPal
- Phone, Fax & SMS: Twilio / Phaxio / AWS SNS
- Photo Management: Google Photos
- Programming Language: PHP / Node.js / Bash / Python
- Project Management: Wrike
- Project Management (Kanban): Trello
- Proposals: Proposify
- Reading List: Pocket
- Ride Sharing: Uber
- Screen-sharing: TeamViewer
- Server Monitoring: DataDog
- Shopping Cart: WooCommerce / BigCommerce
- Smart Lighting: Philips Hue
- Smart Switches: Belkin Wemo Insight
- Smartphone: iPhone
- Social Media Management: Buffer / HootSuite
- Surveys: SurveyMonkey
- Task Tracking: Todoist
- Terminal: iTerm2 (Mac)
- Time Tracking: Toggl
- Two-Factor Authentication: Authy
- Version Control: git / GitHub / AWS CodeCommit
- Video Hosting: Vimeo / YouTube
- Video Monitoring: Manything
- Video Streaming: Netflix
- Web Analytics: Google Analytics
- Web Fonts: Google Fonts
- Web Forms: custom AWS Lambda solutions
- Web Hosting (Iaas): Amazon Web Services
- Web Hosting (Paas): Heroku, or Pantheon for WordPress sites
- Web Hosting (Shared): Nexcess
- Website Monitoring: updown.io