Ask HN: What is the best resource out there keeping track of great tools?

8 points by hvass 8y ago ↗ HN

Often a friend or a client will ask how to solve a particular business problem and I will have the right tool at their disposal which I have already used and tried. But if I have not been lucky to read about that tool or having used it, I might have not easily been able to offer a solution.

I'd love to find a place which has listed 100+ tools for different problems (marketing, project management, email, cloud storage, invoicing software, you name it) that I can browse and see what problems it solves.

Does anything come to mind? And besides Product Hunt, how do you stay up to date on new tools that can help you at work?

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ifcologne 8y ago ↗

Not for all problems but for some technical ones I use lovely curated awesome lists.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome is a good starting point.

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rl3 8y ago ↗

Slant[0] and StackShare[1] are probably your best bets. The former is better for desktop applications or utilties, the latter is better for frameworks and the like.

If you're looking for a specific niche, Product Hunt has a ton of curated lists that tend toward marketing/design. GitHub is probably a better source for curated lists which focus on things developers would find useful.

[0] https://slant.co

[1] https://stackshare.io

baccredited 8y ago ↗

http://alternativeto.net/ is pretty good. You need to know one tool in the area you are looking for, but if you do it gives a good list of alternatives.