The B2B SaaS Tools Index

Airtable

Collaboration

A tool that looks like a spreadsheet but works like a database, letting teams organize records and view them as grids, calendars, or boards.

Read the take → airtable.com

Amazon Web Services

Infra / DevOps

Amazon's cloud platform that rents out computing power, storage, databases, and hundreds of other building blocks over the internet.

Read the take → aws.amazon.com

Amplitude

Analytics

A product analytics tool that tracks what users do inside an app and turns those actions into charts about engagement and retention.

Read the take → amplitude.com

Canva

Design

A simple design app with ready made templates for social posts, slide decks, flyers, and videos, aimed at people who are not trained designers.

Read the take → canva.com

ChatGPT

AI & LLM

A chat assistant from OpenAI that answers questions and writes text when you type a request in plain language.

Read the take → chatgpt.com

Claude

AI & LLM

A chat assistant from Anthropic that responds to written requests and can work through long documents and large amounts of text at once.

Read the take → claude.ai

Clay

Marketing

A spreadsheet like tool that pulls in company and contact information from many sources and can use AI to research prospects at scale.

Read the take → clay.com

Cloudflare

Infra / DevOps

A service that sits in front of websites to make them faster and protect them from attacks and abuse.

Read the take → cloudflare.com

Cursor

Dev Tools

A code editor with a built in AI assistant that can read your whole project and write or change code from plain language instructions.

Read the take → cursor.com

Databricks

Data

A platform for storing large amounts of data and building analytics and AI models on top of it, all in one place.

Read the take → databricks.com

Datadog

Infra / DevOps

A monitoring service that collects data from a company's software and servers and shows it on dashboards, with alerts when something breaks.

Read the take → datadoghq.com

ElevenLabs

AI & LLM

A tool that turns written text into natural sounding speech and can copy a specific voice.

Read the take → elevenlabs.io

Figma

Design

A design tool that runs in the browser where multiple people can work on the same screens at the same time.

Read the take → figma.com

Framer

Design

A tool for designing and publishing websites that feels like a design canvas but outputs a fast, live site with animations.

Read the take → framer.com

GitHub

Dev Tools

The main place where software teams store their code, track changes over time, and review each other's work.

Read the take → github.com

GitHub Copilot

Dev Tools

An AI helper built into code editors that suggests the next lines of code as you type and can answer questions about a codebase.

Read the take → github.com

Google Gemini

AI & LLM

Google's chat assistant that answers questions, writes text, and handles images, audio, and video.

Read the take → gemini.google.com

Granola

Productivity

A note taking app for meetings that listens in the background, combines your typed notes with what it heard, and produces a clean summary afterward.

Read the take → granola.ai

Hotjar

Analytics

A website tool that records visitor sessions and creates heatmaps showing where people click, move, and scroll.

Read the take → hotjar.com

HubSpot

Marketing

An all in one system for tracking sales leads, sending marketing emails, and handling customer support, aimed at small and growing companies.

Read the take → hubspot.com

Hugging Face

AI & LLM

An online hub where people share, download, and try open AI models and the datasets used to train them.

Read the take → huggingface.co

Linear

Productivity

A fast issue and project tracker for software teams that keeps a clean list of what needs doing and what is in progress.

Read the take → linear.app

Loom

Collaboration

A tool for recording a quick video of your screen and camera and sharing it with a link, instead of writing a long message or scheduling a call.

Read the take → loom.com

Lovable

Dev Tools

A tool that builds a working web app from a plain language description, including the screens, the database, and sign in.

Read the take → lovable.dev

Mailchimp

Marketing

An email marketing service for building mailing lists, designing newsletters, and sending them to subscribers.

Read the take → mailchimp.com

Make

Automation

A visual automation tool where you connect apps and steps on a canvas to build workflows that run on their own.

Read the take → make.com

Midjourney

Design

A tool that creates images from a written description.

Read the take → midjourney.com

Miro

Collaboration

A large online whiteboard where many people can add sticky notes, diagrams, and drawings together in real time.

Read the take → miro.com

Mixpanel

Analytics

A product analytics tool focused on tracking specific user actions, like button clicks and sign ups, and reporting on them.

Read the take → mixpanel.com

n8n

Automation

An automation tool for connecting apps and building workflows that you can run on your own servers.

Read the take → n8n.io

Neon

Data

A cloud version of the Postgres database that scales automatically and can shut off when idle so you only pay for what you use.

Read the take → neon.com

Notion

Productivity

A flexible workspace that combines notes, documents, tasks, and simple databases in one place, which teams arrange however they like.

Read the take → notion.so

Perplexity

AI & LLM

An answer engine that responds to questions in a few sentences and shows links to the sources it used.

Read the take → perplexity.ai

PostHog

Analytics

A product analytics tool that shows how people move through an app or website, plus session recordings, surveys, and feature switches in one package.

Read the take → posthog.com

Postman

Dev Tools

A workbench for testing APIs, which are the connections that let software systems talk to each other.

Read the take → postman.com

Ramp

Productivity

A company card and expense system that tracks spending as it happens and automates receipts, approvals, and bill payments.

Read the take → ramp.com

Raycast

Productivity

A launcher for the Mac that opens with a keystroke and lets you run searches, actions, and small tools without touching the mouse.

Read the take → raycast.com

Retool

Automation

A tool for quickly building internal apps, like admin panels and dashboards, by dragging components and connecting them to your databases and APIs.

Read the take → retool.com

Semrush

Marketing

A research tool for online marketing that shows which search terms bring traffic, what competitors rank for, and how ads are performing.

Read the take → semrush.com

Sentry

Infra / DevOps

A tool that catches errors and crashes in live apps and websites and reports exactly where and why they happened.

Read the take → sentry.io

Slack

Collaboration

A messaging app for work, organized into channels by team, project, or topic, with direct messages and calls.

Read the take → slack.com

Snowflake

Data

A cloud data warehouse, which is a large central store where a company keeps all its business data for analysis.

Read the take → snowflake.com

Stripe

Infra / DevOps

A service that lets businesses accept online payments and manage subscriptions and payouts through a set of developer tools.

Read the take → stripe.com

Supabase

Data

A ready made back end for apps that gives you a database, user sign in, file storage, and automatic APIs without setting up servers.

Read the take → supabase.com

Vercel

Infra / DevOps

A hosting service that takes a website or web app from a code repository and puts it live on the internet automatically.

Read the take → vercel.com

Warp

Dev Tools

A modern version of the terminal, the text based window developers use to run commands.

Read the take → warp.dev

Webflow

Marketing

A tool for designing and publishing websites visually, by dragging elements around instead of writing code, while still producing a real website.

Read the take → webflow.com

Whimsical

Design

A shared online whiteboard for making flowcharts, rough app screen sketches, mind maps, and sticky note boards.

Read the take → whimsical.com

Zapier

Automation

A service that connects apps so an action in one automatically triggers an action in another, without any coding.

Read the take → zapier.com

Zoom

Collaboration

A video meeting service for calls with anywhere from two people to large webinars, with screen sharing and recording.

Read the take → zoom.us