I found most of these by accident or from one tweet. Sharing so you don't waste months like I did.
I hated the terminal until I switched to Warp. It's got AI built in, it autocompletes commands, it remembers your history intelligently. The terminal finally makes sense.
Keyboard shortcuts - Warp
If you share code on LinkedIn or Twitter and it looks ugly — this is why people aren't engaging. Ray.so makes your code look gorgeous in seconds. Free.
Create beautiful images of your code
Deployed my first Next.js project to Vercel and genuinely could not believe it was that easy. Push to GitHub and it's live. That's actually it.
Vercel: Build and deploy the best web experiences with the AI Cloud
If you're fetching data in React without TanStack Query you are writing so much unnecessary code. This library removed entire folders from my codebase. Real talk.
TanStack Query
Free whiteboard tool that feels like drawing on paper but lives in your browser. I use it to map out components before I write a single line. Saves me from rebuilding things.