Which are your go-to tools when working remote and why? Also, leave your product if it's related.

Martina Hackbartt
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Hi, hunters! Hope you are having a good work week :) I'd love to know which are your favourite tools for working at home. Also, if you have a related product, tell us what is it about and maybe it'll become part of our routine!

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Product Hunt
Product Hunt
Working on an international, fully remote team the biggest thing is dates & timezones. Here are my must-have tools for staying ontop of my meetings & deadlines. · Fantastical 3.0 · SavvyCal · MeetingBar 3.0 Other fun tools I use daily · Stats · MintClock · Battery Buddy · Mumu X · Poolsuite™
Martina Hackbartt
@gabe__perez Wow! Many new tools to try out. Thank you for sharing!
Audrey Lo
So many! I love zoom, loom, slack, and calendly. When it comes to physical products, I love my Autonomous standing desk.
Mantas
Setup Scout 2.0
Hey, Martina! I work remotely as a copywriter for an e-commerce brand. Our daily drivers are Slack and Asana (switched from Trello). Couldn't live without those for sure! And, well, email, haha. It's funny you made this discussion today, though, since I've just launched Setup Scout. It can help you build your remote workspace, which can greatly improve your productivity and even health!
Martina Hackbartt
@st__matt Hi, Mantas! It's good to know you just launched, congrats! I'll give Setup Scout a try :) Also,, I find Asana and Slack very useful as well
Sharath Kuruganty
Undefeated Underdogs Podcast
Undefeated Underdogs Podcast
Hey Martina! Slack, Notion, and Asana are for sure the to-go ones. Recently I have been using Macro which makes my Zoom meetings more colorful and fun :)
Martina Hackbartt
@5harath Hi, Sharath! Such a good combo, I use all those 3 as well. Haven't tried Macro but definitely will. Thank you for sharing!
Dan Frankowski
Slack, Zoom, Gmail. The usual. :) And, Condorsay. Since you kindly asked, our tool Condorsay (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) is aimed at helping a team frame and make decisions asynchronously and independently. (They come together at the end, once they've evaluated the options.) So we consider Condorsay to be very supportive of remote work. We posted on product hunt today. Take a look if you feel moved.
Martina Hackbartt
@dfrankow Hi, Dan! I'm looking forward to try Condorsay out with my team; seems like a veeery useful tool. Congrats on the launch!
Michael Silber
I wouldn't normally have an iPad in an office, but because I work from home I sometimes like to draw things out and airdrop it to my computer. It can really speed up communicating an idea when I have a sketch. Alternatively, I have been enjoying FigJam by Figma
Kiran Kanakadandi (yugahq.com)
@product_at_producthunt -- I find myself using the sidecar feature on Mac+iPad only coz I'm home. Especially helpful when I'm presenting a deck to lookup/write notes.
Martina Hackbartt
@product_at_producthunt Hi Michael! FigJam seems like a very good tool to quickly connect ideas. Thank you very much for sharing! I'll try it out soon
Sandeep Acharya
And if you want to switch to a new company, I do recommend my website https://remotefront.io for everyone. It saves you hours of job hunting and sends you related jobs to you 2 times a week so you can enjoy your free time learning new stuff. You would be applying to jobs that are directly sent via email.
Martina Hackbartt
@sandeep_acharya Hi Sandeep! Sounds like a great idea! I'll definitely keep your website handy for the future
Sandeep Acharya
@martina_hackbartt You would be amazed to know that remotefront.io is able to curate and post 3321 remote jobs in last 45 days. There are so many remote openings everyday.
Dmitry Chourpo
We building conversational client onboarding platform and use Slack, Notion and Zoom. Out of those 3 the most valuable for us is Notion by far.
Martina Hackbartt
@dmitry_chourpo1 I absolutely love notion as well! I don't use it with my team but most of my work and study I organize it there
Volodymyr
Hello,Martina Hackbarth! I am UI/UX Designer and I am working remotely all my time, for making notes I am using basic app "Notes" on my mac😅 Trello as a task manager. Also I am using websites for looking inspiration and I made own product for this needs: https://templateshake.com
Anna Kuzma
Hi Martina, Hope you are having a good week too :) Here is my list of tools used for remote work on a daily basis: - I check my email and then assignments in the ticketing tool (we use our tool UseResponse -https://www.producthunt.com/post...) - For online meetings we use Whereby and Zoom - For instant team communications we use Telegram - Teamviewer for screensharing - Plus shared documents in Google Docs/Sheets
Martina Hackbartt
@kuzmanna Hi Anna! A very complete list, I'll check everything out. Thank you for sharing!
Denis Devigne
I'm constantly using Slack and ClickUp for quick communication and project managing. Since our team consists of remote and hybrid working, we use our own video tool to make group video gifts to recognize and celebrate our employees: https://www.vidday.com/video-mak... It always feels good to surprise and delight a team member!
Sarvesh Dubey
I am building https://fusionhq.co. Its really great for remote PMs. Apart from this, I like Slack, Notion, ClickUp
Alina Grigoryan
Hey 😊 As for me, it's Slack, Zoom and Trello for effective communication. Also, would love to share our product that helps me as a user to keep emotional connections and relationships with my team members and much more. You can check us out on Product hunt https://www.producthunt.com/post... or on our website https://luckycarrotapp.com/
Martina Hackbartt
@alina_grigoryan Hi, Alina! Lucky carrot seems like an amazing initiative. Will definitely take a look at it. Thank you for sharing and congrats on such a great product!
Ajeya
Slack, Zoom and Ricotta(we are building this)!
Mayank Mishra
Hey if you're using Slack, you may find Poppins.me quite helpful :) great discussion btw!
Martina Hackbartt
@mishra_mayank Hi Mayank! Thank you very much :)
Alex Shebar
If you want a platform that's a little more fun than Zoom for virtual connections, we've been using Topia (https://topia.io/), which is a solidly better way to connect for a meeting.
Brian Swichkow
@alexshebar we've loved the energy you've brought into https://topia.io/producthunt and are excited for the next hybrid event! It's a virtual clubhouse made to be magical by the PH community.
Bertha Kgokong
As an entrepreneur, I am very cheap and try to find value for money everywhere. My top products are: 👍 For vide conferencing - Free to use and just easy, usrfriendly Jitsi Meet (Alternative for Zoom, Google Meet etc) - https://meet.jit.si/ 👍 For Team Collaboration, a product I discovered right here on Product Hunt (Alternative for Slack) - https://mymana.com/ 👍 Project Management, CRM, HRMS - OKRs being added now to be released next week, My own product (Alternative for Asana, Zoho) - https://skhokho.io/ 👍 Social Media Management - Well have not found an alternative yet.... but open for suggestions. https://hootsuite.com/
Abay Beyshenkulov
Hello! I usually use notion for teamwork. However, you can also use our product called Martenly. Martenly is an all-in-one social media management tool. Martenly lets you focus and grow your audience and business at the same time. Please help us reach the top today! :) https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Kiran Kanakadandi (yugahq.com)
Early 0-to-1 stage startup, 100% remote (will remain so), 3 people -- so Zoom, Google Docs/Sheets, WhatsApp. Our product is kinda designed for new normal: we believe the future of work is going to be heavily individual-centric, as opposed to it being company-centric. And so, Yuga is an employee engagement SaaS where employees plan their long-term career using LinkedIn for login (vs enterprise) and managers work alongside on Yuga to see how the company fits in, for proactive retention. There's also a module for mentor engagement and a Brag/Work journal to track those wins you'd normally lose track of usually. We're at yugahq.com.
Martina Hackbartt
@kirank5a Hi, Kiran! I'll most definitely try Yuga out, it sounds very interesting indeed.