How makers stay productive

Workflow

1. GitLab - code storage, repositories, and collaborative development.
2. Redmine - flexible and configurable project management. Use the purplemine theme for a modern touch.
3. Telegram - keeps us in touch
4. Makerlog - keeps us accountable && in sync
5. Fork - the best Git client for Mac
6. VS Code - the best editor
7. PyCharm and WebStorm - great IDEs for rapid development

Infrastructure

1. DigitalOcean - the cheapest and "most complete" simple cloud provider out there. Zero BS, just tools.
2. **DO Block storage & CDN **- cheap S3-compatible block storage, free CDN included
3. Mailgun - cheap transactional email sending
4. Twilio - SMS sending for code verification
5. Dead Man's Snitch - check if cron jobs are working fine
6. Dokku - the BEST PaaS-in-a-box

Stack

1. Django - the best web framework for Python, bar none
2. Django REST Framework - the fastest way to get an API up and running. It increases ship speed for me so much now that I'm used to it. It's irreplaceable.
3. Django Channels - realtime & async for Django
4. Celery - a very resilient and easy to use task queue for Django
5. create-react-app - a simple way to get started with react apps
6. NextJS - what I'm using for all my new projects from now on. Dead-simple SSR for React apps.
7. ReactJS - of course :D
8. Prettier for JS, Black for Python - not thinking about code formatting is a blessing

Business & Intelligence

1. Metabase - a great business intelligence tool. How I keep track of business, growth, trends, competition, etc.
2. Notion - keeps my team in sync, a great workspace/knowledgebase
3. Crisp - great for providing support for small projects

Marketing

1. TweetDeck - the best Twitter client ever. A little jarring at first, great once you get used to it.

Design

1. Figma - a great, rapid design tool for prototyping UIs
2. Adobe Illustrator - great for designing banners, general purpose design

Probably missing some stuff, but pretty exhaustive!

Strictly speaking about code and deployments, I use these:

• Github & GitLab

• PHPStorm & WebStorm

• DigitalOcean

• KeyCDN

• SourceTree (downloaded for a certain situation, only used it one time)

PHPStorm and GitLab for the win!

Visual Studio 2019 + GitHub + OneDrive + Azure + SendGrid + Stripe

Copy Past, where it applied from Sergio(s) post

Workflow (Maker Projects)

• Github - code storage, repositories, and collaborative development.
• Telegram - keeps us in touch
• Makerlog - keeps us accountable && in sync
• GIT CLI - just enough, using some bash aliases for less typing
• IntelliJ Ultimate- Having a license since… and is great for Go

Infrastructure

• Hetzner - Dedicated Server, Ubuntu Server Edition
• Manjaro - Arch-based Linux Distro as my Dev OS. Love it since the first touch. Eat your Apple, I love Mangos ;-)
• Cloudinary - Image Hosting / Transformation
• Mailgun - cheap transactional email sending
• SendInBlue - Non- Job Newsletter (Job Newsletter I have own implementation)
• Rancher 1.6 - Docker Infra

Stack

• Go - The language that I like the most. No web framework, own authentication/authorization (not because it makes sense, but was there from last project and good learning)
• ArangoDb - Multimodel DB. Using now as Document Storage for all Entities plans where GraphDB will make sense
• Redis - Authentication Tokens, Authorization Hashs
• Nsq - Message Queue for decoupling of services
• Go Chi, API library - simple, fast, well-maintained helpers for API
• Vue CLI - starting and working with Vue. It's my first project with Vue and for sure, not the last one.
• Bootstrap 4 - I know it so I use it. No need for something new from my side :-)

Business & Intelligence

• Notion - I should use it more. Really a great tool
• Crisp - great for providing support for small projects

Marketing

• TweetDeck - the best Twitter client ever. A little jarring at first, great once you get used to it.
• Buffer - Really Bull-Shit. Was good when they started, now it's just buggy crap.

Design

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Probably missing some stuff, but pretty exhaustive! (thanks to Sergio :-))

I'm working on an iOS app, so coding is done in Xcode.

• I use Gitlab for code hosting. Even if I work by myself I'm pretty strict in branching off for every feature / bug fix and using merge requests to put it back into the master branch. I also use tags to keep track of deployments that I did.
• I use Souretree as git client, I'm not really good in command line :D
• Gitlab as a nice CI feature which triggers unit tests and UI tests on my Mac for every merge request.
• I just integrated Fastlane CI to for automatic App Store screenshots
• Deployment to the App Store is done manually in Xcode, maybe in the future automatically by Fastlane CI
• For my websites I use Visual Studio Code

Project management

• Notion holds all the high level features and planning
• Things holds tasks for the current 'sprint' of 1 week (as well as my personal to-do lists)
• My calendar is for blocking off time to work or to relax
• I sit down once a week for a weekly review of my work and personal tasks

BI

I try to be as privacy friendly as possible, so I use tracking that is not profiling my users or following them across the web.

• Private instance of Matomo for in-app tracking
• SimpleAnalytics for website analytics
• I'm currently researching a support / faq tool to use when my app launches.

Infrastructure

• Marketing and personal sites hosted on DigitalOcean
• Cloud sync for my app will be powered by Apple's iCloud

Design

• Sketch I've used Sketch for years so it's the tool I'm quickest in.
• Xcode's Interface Builder