Tools We Use
The tools Hardal runs on and what they're for.
We keep our tool stack intentional. Every tool has a cost - not just financial, but in overhead, context-switching, and information fragmentation. We don't add tools speculatively.
Core tools
Communication
Slack - Primary async communication. Public channels by default; DMs for truly personal matters. We don't use email internally.
Google Meet - Video calls. Embedded in Google Calendar invites.
Claude - For any agentic support and LLM needs
Project management
Linear - All engineering tasks, bugs, and sprints live here. If a task isn't in Linear, it doesn't exist. Every task needs an owner. Feature requests from customers go here too.
Documentation
Google Drive - Contracts, financial documents, legal docs, anything that needs to be on the record. The default for anything operational.
Google Docs - Internal knowledge base for longer-form documentation that doesn't belong in the codebase or the public handbook.
This handbook - Public-facing documentation of how we work.
Engineering
GitHub - All code. Pull requests, code review, issue tracking for engineering.
Azure - Cloud infrastructure. Container hosting, CI/CD pipelines.
Codex - For AI support in coding.
Marketing
Cloudinary - Media asset management for the website and customer-facing assets.
Sanity - CMS for website content management. The website CMS is now live - team members can access it here to website studio.
Cal.com - Meeting booking for sales and customer success calls.
Postiz - Social media management.
Finance and HR
Deel - Payroll, contracts, and expense reimbursement. Submit all expenses here.
Teamtailor - All hiring processes
Paraşüt - For all accounting purposes
Quickbooks - For all accounting purposes
Analytics and marketing
Hardal - We use our own product for website tracking. Dogfooding is mandatory.
Google Search Console - SEO monitoring.
Resend - Transactional email.