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Everything How personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.

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Claude Claude
14x

"I've been building that up where if I'm working with this and something goes wrong, I would essentially hop into the place where I have these skills and say, 'Here's what happened. Give me a suggestion on how to improve this skill so this doesn't happen again.'"

Slack Slack
9x

"The process itself of building this was very much prompt driven, I'll say, chatting in Slack and saying, hey, wouldn't it be nice if we had a hub for this"

OpenClaw OpenClaw
5x

"OpenClaw finally allows me to get to because it's actually doing the heavy lifting... I want to be able to take photos of a lesson that I do and then just upload them and have the actual OpenClaw log the full lesson contents."

Figma Figma
3x

"So what I can do is say send all five states signup flow to Figma. Now the agent's going to do is read my codebase, understand what I'm referring to when I say those five states, and for each one of those, it's going to individually import that one by one into Figma"

Midjourney Midjourney
3x

"I thought it might be fun to have a deer in a New York City apartment. I got these images. They're definitely on par in terms of general style."

Cursor Cursor
3x

"I have to give kudos to Cursor. I'm still a Cursor girl. I think Cursor does a good job of building harnesses for all of these models."

Vercel Vercel
3x

"When you see this URL ending on vercel.sh, this is basically running on the production grade CDN on the production grade rendering infrastructure, hosting infrastructure."

VS Code VS Code
2x

"I get the latest code across all these directories on the left-hand side of my VS Code"

All recommendations

Sub agents uses technique
"When you use sub agents, it will spin up three different agents and each of those agents can have their own persona... I found really good results with this kind of framework"
Cursor uses software
"I have to give kudos to Cursor. I'm still a Cursor girl. I think Cursor does a good job of building harnesses for all of these models."
Remotion uses software
"For example, I use this Remotion best practices one to let me import components and regularly create videos really, really quickly."
Stripe uses software
"It's going to apply all the configuration that's required for both me and the agent to do coding within Stripe."
Linear uses software
"Linear is an incredible tool. It's doing some triaging."
Slack uses software
"I truly wake up to maybe 100 to 115 new Slack notifications. I need to build a system to get there."
OpenClaw uses software
"I did that via Jarvis, my OpenClaw. So, all of this data is tracked in Slack via these timestamps."
Perplexity Computer uses software
"Perplexity computer can access it in the browser. It has all the different models, so it should also be able to visually recognize and then understand what I'm putting back and forth."
Claude Code uses software
"I use a bunch of custom Claude Code commands to help me do stuff"
Kubernetes uses software
"deploy into Kubernetes using our different images"
VS Code uses software
"all the different repos along the left-hand side of my VS Code"
Confluence uses software
"we have a whole bunch of Confluence pages about how to deploy into Kubernetes"
Pylon uses software
"What Pylon allows us to do is looking at a really long Slack thread, it can help you generate a help article. The main thing with Pylon is that everything is kind of just like in one interface."
Claude uses software
"I just said, 'Help me figure out a way to pull the latest main branches into my local repos.' And it just did it in one shot."
GPT-4 uses software
"I find myself doing this with GPT-4 which is like a powerhouse model."
ChatPRD uses software
"My personal workspace, for example, on Chat PRD is the best demo app. It's so rich in information, but a lot of that we pull in customer insights and financial data."
Gamma uses software
"Shout out to Gamma for helping me make some amazing slides right out the gate. Great use of AI."
OpenAI uses software
"this is going to go off send that off to OpenAI and come back with that"
Parallel AI uses software
"It's going to search online using parallel AI to find relevant venues in New York that we could host this party"
BrowserBase uses software
"we've actually paid BrowserBase to create a new browser session. So, I didn't sign up for BrowserBase beforehand. I'm just paying for this one session"
Postal Form uses software
"we're interacting with this service called Postal Form. Postal form will take a PDF and actually send it in the mail"
Playwright uses software
"You can see right now it's writing some playwright code locally which will connect to that browser-based session"
Workflows uses software
"So this is the new workflows agent. And this is an agent that builds an agent."
ffmpeg uses software
"ffmpeg is a CLI that you can use to edit videos. And I use this all the time. I use it to strip audio off of videos."
Warp uses software
"So, I was like, 'What is up with this to warp?' As you can see in my prompt here, I say, 'Why is this file so big?' Use FFmpeg to re-encode it."
Azure uses software
"give this person whatever role they need to use Azure document intelligence"
"I can connect it to the Microsoft documentation MCP server and then it'll go look it up and that makes it work much better"
Markdown uses technique
"So it's starting to read this markdown file of what this retention plan is."
MCP uses software
"With MCP, you can programmatically pull any production state into Figma, ensuring designers always work from what actually exists"
Figma uses software
"So what I can do is say send all five states signup flow to Figma. Now the agent's going to do is read my codebase, understand what I'm referring to when I say those five states, and for each one of those, it's going to individually import that one by one into Figma"
Midjourney uses software
"I'll take my midjourney images and I'll take them into Flora and I'll just use Nano Banana as Photoshop."
Flora uses software
"I'll take my midjourney images and I'll take them into Flora and I'll just use Nano Banana as Photoshop."
Nano Banana uses software
"Nano banana literally is just Photoshop. That's exactly how you should think of it. You're just able to speak to Photoshop."
ChatGPT uses software
"And it will head off to ChatGPT and get the response for this as well"
Cosmos uses software
"I'm going to start in either Pinterest or Cosmos. And I'm going to create a mood board that is the general vibe of what I want."
Pinterest uses software
"I'm going to start in either Pinterest or Cosmos. And I'm going to create a mood board that is the general vibe of what I want."
Figma MCP uses software
"Before you could just paste a link to a Figma URL and try and manually invoke the Figma MCP. It would build it and then sort of stop halfway through."
Nano Banana Pro uses software
"I ask it to use Nano Banana Pro and I gave it the API key for that specific image generation model to my OpenClaw."
Claude Skills uses software
"I wrote a little skill called find icon. And the skill basically says anytime you're going to implement an icon, first go and actually look through the whole project"
Next.js uses software
"The difference was we were all creating our own repository, our own Next.js instance."
From: Notion’s Prototype Playground ▶ 0:48 Feb 2026
Chrome uses software
"We want to build a very simple PRD here for a locally run Chrome extension where the job is when in Slack in Chrome"
Codex uses software
"I will say Codex takes its time. I almost wanted it to do a review more broadly and then describe the issues it's seeing... Codex always finds those types of things."
Flowey uses software
"I want to be able to say, 'Okay, I want a new feature in Flowey. I'm going to build it. I'm going to update skills and I can be confident that Claude can actually work with that and understand the new feature.'"
Claude Opus 4.6 uses software
"And Anthropic released their response, Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.6 Fast."
GPT-4.5 Codex uses software
"the new model GPT 5.3 Codex. Try saying that five times fast."
Devon uses software
"I asked Devon today, how much code have I merged into GitHub in the last five days?"
v0 uses software
"Can you build software like this with v0? Software that's going to travel entire world, scale, receive a lot of traffic, but you have confidence that you can make high quality changes within v0 itself."
Vercel uses software
"It takes advantage of all of the Vercel infrastructure primitives even though it has 35,000 of the skills"
Google Sheets uses software
"one table which is like a Google sheet type"
Redis uses software
"We're storing data in Redis by AppStach."
Zapier uses software
"I don't know if your company uses Zapier. Sometimes they're like, oh yeah, we're both a customer and a partner, right?"
Databricks uses software
"We used Databricks, which houses like a lot of our data, makes that usable. And so they built this whole series of things that allows just simple lookup."
Gemini uses software
"You can tell an AI this is a wrapper around Gemini where it will execute Gemini with specific prompts."
Telegram uses software
"As I was on Telegram going back and forth giving it, can you add this? Can you remove this? Can you change the schedule? I thought it was doing a great job on Telegram"
Claudebot uses software
"My goal with using Claudebot was to really see how it would work as an EA."
BotFather uses software
"You message BotFather and you say create new bot and you give it a name and you give it a handle."
Google Workspace uses software
"So what I did and you can follow this if you want to from a security perspective although I think it has some drawbacks on the functionality of Cloudbot is I gave Cloudbot its own email address a Google Workspace email address."
MacBook Air uses product
"I'm running it on a MacBook Air that's sitting in on a shelf somewhere that I just picked up that no one was using."
Clawbot uses software
"Claudebot is an open-source AI agent that you can install on a virtual machine or on a desktop or laptop that you have access to that is self-learning, can spin up sub agents using Claude code and other agent harnesses and can do in my lived experience a lot of damage."
Riverside FM uses software
"Hey Paulie, can you please join my Riverside FM podcast?"
1Password uses software
"So I use one password which is a password and secret sharing kind of app. I made a vault that's called Claude. Claude only has access. Claudebot only has access to that vault."
Haiku uses software
"if I type H, this will be haiku. It'll be much faster but not quite as smart"
Mermaid uses software
"They have what are called mermaid diagrams. This is a way of visualizing database operations and it's a way of essentially compressing your application down into very small lines of text that show how your application works."
Xbox Game Bar uses negative software
"Yesterday, I used the Xbox Game Bar thing to record a video off my screen. Well, for 10 minutes of video, this thing recorded a 1.7 GB file."
GitHub Desktop recommends software
"I have always said you should invest in the GitHub desktop experience. It is a version of this. It's what I use all the time to manage my work across branches and across files."
Obsidian mentions software
"Hillary has shown us she uses Obsidian hooked up to her claude code hooked up to her calendar"
Notion mentions software
"Some of us are like notion boys where we want like tables and pages and linked assets and combon boards and all this stuff."
Figma MCP server mentions software
"it's going to then use the Figma MCP server in a different way. This one allows it to take stuff that's currently within the Figma document and automatically transform that into code"
MacBook Pro mentions product
"I just said replace the computer she's typing on on a 2026 Midnight Black MacBook Pro."
Photoshop mentions software
"Nano banana literally is just Photoshop. That's exactly how you should think of it."
Balsamiq mentions software
"You don't know what like Balsamiq is or like those old mockups used to be like you don't know what we used to have to do with wireframes."
Granola mentions software
"you can look at what's happening in GitHub, you can look at what's happening in Linear, you can look at what's happening in Granola."
Hex mentions software
"I like a more content dense site like Hex. Hex, you have a lovely site. I think you did a really nice job."
Excalidraw mentions software
"And then you can be designing in here almost like you're in Figma or Excalidraw or something."
Vim mentions software
"Back in the olden days, you sort of had like your choice of like what's going to be my IDE and am I going to use Vim."
Homebrew mentions software
"I spent this morning with my designer installing homebrew like like it just wasn't on her laptop."
Moltbot mentions software
"And in case you missed it this week, it is Claudebot, recently renamed Moltbot, the Cristian that people are yoloing root access to."
WhatsApp mentions negative software
"So, I originally started with WhatsApp, but then I read the screen that said you should basically put WhatsApp on like a burner phone with its own SIM SOS. Like, don't do that."
ThoughtSpot recommends sponsored software
"ThoughtSpot embedded solves this by putting analytics directly into your product. Your users can search in plain English and explore data instantly"
Guru recommends sponsored software
"Guru solves this by adding a verification layer between your company's knowledge and AI tools. Instead of just hoping your AI gets it right, Guru automatically scores content for accuracy"
WorkOS recommends sponsored software
"WorkOS gives you drop-in APIs for enterprise features so your app can become enterprise ready and scale up market faster. Think of it like Stripe for enterprise features."
Vanta recommends sponsored software
"That's why serious AI startups use Vanta. With deep integrations and automated workflows built for fast moving AI teams, Vanta gets you audit ready fast."
Tines mentions sponsored software
"Tines fixes that. It unifies your tools, data, and processes in one secure, flexible platform. Blending Agette AI automation and human-led intervention."
Orqus mentions sponsored software
"This episode is brought to you by Orcus, the company behind Open-source Conductor."
Lovable mentions sponsored software
"Lovable lets you build working apps and websites by simply chatting with AI. Then you can customize it, add automations, and deploy it to a live domain."
Perplexity mentions sponsored software
"OpenAI, Perplexity, and Cursor are already using WorkOS to move faster and meet enterprise demands."
Optimizely Opel mentions sponsored software
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