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The Exact Tools I Use to Run All of My Operations...Side Hustles, what ever they are.
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items I have more side hustles than most people have browser tabs open. These sixteen tools are what keeps all of it running without me losing my mind. Content creation, email automation, traffic, privacy, and the infrastructure holding everything together...
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Content Creation:
The Tools That Actually Make the Content
Email and Audience:
The Only Audience You Actually Own Is Your List
Traffic and Distribution:
The Two Tools That Drive Every Click
Privacy and Security:
The Layer Most People Skip Until Something Goes Wrong
Operations and Infrastructure:
The Backend Nobody Sees But Everything Depends On
Content Creation: The Tools That Actually Make the Content
Every piece of content that leaves this operation runs through one of these four tools. They do not overlap. They each do one thing better than anything else I have tried.
Every piece of content that leaves this operation runs through one of these four tools. They do not overlap. They each do one thing better than anything else I have tried.
Claude: The AI That Replaced Half My Workflow Overnight
Every Pinterest pin image I produce comes out of Ideogram. I use it for typography, editorial aesthetics, and brand-accurate color work. It handles text on images better than any other AI tool I have tested and I test a lot of them. This is the one I...
Ideogram: The Image Generator Behind Every Visual I Publish
I run a faceless brand. HeyGen lets me produce video with a realistic AI avatar and the quality has crossed the point where it no longer looks like a gimmick. I use it to add a video layer to the operation without adding production overhead. It works...
HeyGen: How I Make Video Content Without Ever Being on Camera
I use Creative Market for fonts, mockups, brand kits, and social templates. It is how a one-person operation produces visuals that look like they came from a full design team. The membership is how I get access to the whole catalog without buying ind...
Creative Market: Where I Source Every Font, Brand Kit, and Design Asset I Use
Email and Audience: The Only Audience You Actually Own Is Your List
Social reach is borrowed. Email is owned. These three tools are how I build, automate, and monetize the audience that no algorithm can take away.
I use Kit to run behavioral sequences, tag subscribers based on actions, and build automated journeys that run without me touching them. The visual automation builder is genuinely different from every other email tool I have used. This is my list inf...
Kit: The Email Platform I Use to Run Automated Sequences While on the Beach
I use Beehiiv for the newsletter side of the operation. The referral engine, built-in monetization, and analytics that actually show you what is working make it the right tool for anyone building a newsletter as a real business layer. I have tried th...
beehiiv: The Newsletter Platform I Use to Turn Content Into a Real Audience Asset
I use Systeme.io to run landing pages, email sequences, and the EAS affiliate funnel from a single platform. The free tier handled everything I needed when I started and the pricing stayed reasonable as I scaled. It replaced three separate tools for me.
Systeme.io: The Backend That Runs My Funnels Without a Stack of Separate Tools
Traffic and Distribution: The Two Tools That Drive Every Click
All the content in the world means nothing without distribution. These are the two tools running my traffic engine every single day.
Pinterest is where the majority of my traffic comes from. I treat it as a visual search engine, not social media, and that framing changed everything about how I use it. Content I published months ago still drives clicks today. No other platform does...
Pinterest: The Platform That Sends Me More Affiliate Clicks Than Anything Else Combined
I use Tailwind to batch schedule my entire pin output and let it post automatically at the best times. Without it I would be manually managing 20 pins a day across multiple boards. With it I schedule a full week in one session and walk away. Not opti...
Tailwind: The Tool That Keeps 20 Pins Going Out Daily Without Me Logging In
Privacy and Security: The Layer Most People Skip Until Something Goes Wrong
I set up Incogni and it has been running removal requests ever since. Over 420 data brokers targeted, requests repeated every 60 days or less, Deloitte-verified results. I did not realize how exposed I was until I saw the first batch of removals come...
Incogni: The Tool That Has Removed My Personal Data From Over 400 Brokers So Far
I use NordVPN as always-on infrastructure, not just for travel. Diskless servers, zero-log policy, NordLynx protocol, Threat Protection Pro built in. It runs quietly and I do not notice it until I am somewhere that reminds me why I need it. PCMag Edi...
NordVPN: The VPN I Leave Running Because Turning It Off Feels Irresponsible...Using it Right Now.
Operations and Infrastructure: The Backend Nobody Sees But Everything Depends On
These five tools are the ones nobody asks about and the ones I could not run the operation without. Invisible to the outside world, critical to everything else working properly.
I run everything through Google Workspace. Docs for writing, Sheets for production tracking, Drive for file management, Gmail for the business inbox. It is the connective tissue of the entire operation and it has never let me down.
Google Workspace: The Suite Running Every Document, Sheet, and Email in the Hustle.
I use the Zoho free tier for CRM and contact management. It covers more ground than tools I have paid for at other platforms and the free tier has never hit a ceiling that made me feel like I was being pushed toward a paid plan. Solid infrastructure ...
Zoho Mail (Free Tier): The Free Business Suite That Handles My CRM Without a Monthly Bill
Every EAS landing page is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Free tier, instant global CDN, zero downtime on deployments, and I can push an update in under two minutes. I moved off Wix and Netlify and have not looked back once.
Cloudflare Pages: The Hosting Platform All My Landing Pages Live On
I register every domain through Namecheap. Clean interface, honest pricing, no sneaky renewal markups hiding in the checkout. Once the domain is registered I point it straight to Cloudflare Pages where the site lives. The two together are the cleanes...
Namecheap: The Domain Registrar I Use Before Pointing Everything to Cloudflare
I use Browse.ai to monitor competitors, track product data, and pull structured information from sites I check regularly. I trained it in minutes with no code required. It runs on a schedule and delivers the data. It replaced a manual process I was doing by hand ev...
Browse.ai: The Scraping Tool That Handles My Research Automatically
I use US Global Mail for a permanent US business address, mail scanning on demand, and package forwarding. It is what makes a remote operation look and function like a legitimate business presence without a physical office. I set it up once and it ha...
US Global Mail: The Virtual Mailbox That Gives My Business a Real US Address