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From juggling too many tools to building one — what’s the one thing you wish existed?

Hey folks 👋


Curious to hear from other builders and founders here...


A lot of us start products because we hit a wall — something breaks, something’s missing, or the tools we rely on just don’t talk to each other the way we need them to.


For us, it was the chaos of trying to manage projects across email, Slack, Asana, Google Docs, Miro, Dropbox, Zoom, etc. (you know the drill 😅). So we started building Ledger, not as “yet another PM tool,” but as a place where all your teamwork could finally live together.


It got me wondering:


👉 If you could wave a magic wand and create a tool that solved your biggest friction point right now — what would it do?
👉 And second — what’s the real cost of using a messy tech stack, in your experience?


Really curious how other folks in the Product Hunt community are thinking about this, especially as we all juggle product-building and startup life.


Let’s trade stories — I’ll go first in the comments 👇

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For us, it started with what felt like tool fatigue. Every project update was scattered across a dozen tabs — chat in Slack, tasks in Asana, files in Dropbox, docs in Google, and ideas sketched out in Miro or Figma. And even with all that… half the time we were still falling back to email 😅


So we built Ledger to bring all of it into one place — discussions, tasks, docs, events, whiteboards, files, even AI assist. It’s been a wild ride building something that we wished existed years ago.


But one of the biggest surprises?


How much time and engagement improves just by eliminating context-switching. When everything’s connected, people actually want to collaborate.


Curious — what’s been your team’s biggest bottleneck lately? Tools? Process? People? Something else?