The Stack · Tools I Actually Use
The tools I build everything with.
Every app, automation, and system I ship runs on this stack. This isn't a sponsored list — it's the real set of tools open on my machine right now. A few have referral links: if you sign up through one, I earn a little, at no extra cost to you.
My daily drivers
The four I'd grab first.
If I rebuilt my setup from zero, these come back day one. The links below are referral links — they support me at no extra cost to you.
The AI coding agent I build everything with. Lives in the terminal, writes and ships real code, and runs my whole tool stack. My single most-used tool.
Perplexity's AI browser. It doesn't just answer questions — it does the task in the tab for you. Research, summaries, and busywork handled while you keep moving.
Voice-to-text that works everywhere on your Mac. I talk, it types — cleaned up and punctuated, way faster than the keyboard. I write half my prompts this way.
One subscription, 200+ Mac apps. Instead of paying for ten separate tools, you get the whole library for a flat monthly fee. Replaces a stack of one-off purchases.
The full stack
Everything else I run.
No referral links on these yet — just the tools behind the apps I ship. I'll wire up more as I go.
Backend & Infrastructure
Realtime backend and database. My default for app data — reactive queries, no separate API layer, TypeScript end to end.
Sign-in, users, sessions, and orgs as a drop-in. So I never have to roll my own login — the part that's easy to get dangerously wrong.
Where I host static sites on Pages and run edge functions. Fast, global, and a genuinely generous free tier.
Deploys my full-stack apps that need server rendering, APIs, and auth. Push to git and it ships itself.
Postgres with auth and storage built in — my pick when I want a SQL database with batteries included.
Checkout links, subscriptions, the works. Every paid thing I build runs its money through Stripe.
Media & AI Generation
AI image and video generation API. The engine behind the visual work I make for clients.
AI video and avatars — cinematic generations and talking-head content.
Workspace
Where everything lives — docs, databases, my whole second brain and ops hub.
Don't want to wire it up yourself?
I'll set this stack up with you, live.
Pick a Build-With-Me session and we wire the exact tools into your business together — not a slide deck, something working by the end of the call.