stack

• ✓typescriptthe default — if it's more than a script, it's typed
• ✓reactthe component layer under all of it
• ✓next.jsevery frontend
• ✓nodethe runtime behind the endpoints
• ✓tailwindstyling without a second language to maintain
• ✓shadcn/uicomponents I own the source of, not ones I hope get patched
• ✓radixthe accessible primitives underneath them
• ✓vitewhen it doesn't need a framework, just a bundler
• ✓postgreswhere the truth lives
• ✓pythonfor when the job is a pipeline, not a page

build & ship

• ✓claude-codedaily driver — most of what I ship gets built in sessions like this one
• ✓codexsecond pair of hands when I want another model on the code
• ✓githubwhere everything lives
• ✓supabaseauth, postgres, storage
• ✓inngestthe schedulers and pipelines that let products run themselves
• ✓makerkitboilerplate base so every product starts at mile ten
• ✓retoolinternal dashboards without building internal dashboards
• ✓vercelwhere the frontends land
• ✓netlifywhere the rest of them land
• ✓awsfor the parts that outgrow someone else's platform
• ✓sentryhears things break before customers do
• ✓google-workspacemail, docs, and the shared drive everything ends up in
• ✓ms-officespreadsheets, decks, and the documents clients actually asked for

ai & media

• ✓claude-apithe brain inside the products — classification, extraction, generation
• ✓chatgptsecond opinion on tap
• ✓google-ai-progemini, deep research, and the veo/flow credits behind the video
• ✓elevenlabsvoices
• ✓hedratalking heads and AI video
• ✓google-flowgenerative video when the shot doesn't exist
• ✓higgsfieldcinematic video — pick the lens and the camera move, keep the same face across shots
• ✓midjourneystills
• ✓sunofull tracks, written and produced — see the Norman project below
• ✓adobe-suitewhen pixels need a human hand

voice & phone

• ✓retellphone agents that answer like they mean it
• ✓vapivoice agent infrastructure
• ✓five9the contact center the calls actually land in — dialers, routing, and IVAs

comms

• ✓twilioSMS rails — built TCPA-compliant campaign systems on top
• ✓slackwhere my agents clock in
• ✓resendthe emails my products send instead of having dashboards
• ✓mailgunthe same job at volume, when deliverability is someone's KPI

money & markets

• ✓stripemoney
• ✓lemonsqueezymoney, with the taxes handled
• ✓polymarkettrading on what happens next

growth

• ✓ad-platformsmeta & google — distribution is a skill, not a department
• ✓leadspedialead distribution — where the leads go once the ads have done their job
• ✓ahrefswhat people search for, and who already ranks for it
• ✓instantlycold email at volume — warmup, deliverability, and sequences that land in the inbox
• ✓hubspotthe CRM the pipeline lives in once a lead is a person

automation

• ✓hermes-agentself-hosted agent with a learning loop — lives on the server, remembers what it learned, clocks in on its own schedule
• ✓playwrightthe hands — automated testing and anything that needs a browser
• ✓n8nglue for workflows that don't deserve real code
• ✓zapierduct tape between SaaS apps
• ✓makethe same, with more knobs
• ✓stacksynctwo-way data sync so the database and the SaaS apps stop arguing
• ✓firecrawlturns any site into clean markdown an agent can actually read
• ✓rapidapisomeone already built the endpoint — this is where you find it
• ✓api-integrationsif it exposes an endpoint, webhook, or OAuth flow, I can usually make it part of the system