Smart tools for founders who ship
Editorial picks, honest tradeoffs, and a searchable cookbook—without the hype.
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Resend
API-first email—what we were steeping in the week before Arcade took the hot seat.
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2 weeks ago
Raycast
Launcher rabbit hole: extensions, snippets, and just enough scripting to feel dangerous.
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3 weeks ago
Linear
Issue tracking that finally feels fast—keyboard-first triage without the enterprise bloat.
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Stephan's current tech obsession
April 2026
arcade.software
From prototype to production without losing your mind—arcade.software is what we're digging into right now for turning AI-assisted builds into something you can actually run and grow.
Three things Stephan absolutely loves
- An absolutely simple, cool logo—the little button icon lines up perfectly with the theme of arcade.software.
- The onboarding process for this app is absolutely off the hook, and their designer needs to be given an Emmy.
- It's so easy to integrate into existing software that we're folding this into the Fractional Tools help section and taking out our Loom video so clients get interactive walkthroughs instead of a passive recording.
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Sentry.io
A pre–gen-AI observability workhorse that, ironically, is now a breeze for vibe coders—and genuinely usable for non-technical people who still need to see what’s breaking.
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Stephan's low-effort dispatch on the tools, bets, and rabbit holes he actually cares about. No Mailchimp maze, no “confirm your subscription for the third time”—just LinkedIn, because building a proper newsletter stack kept losing to shipping the cookbook.
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