It’s pretty cool to find out what stuff others use
Have you noticed listicles (i.e. articles in some kind of list format) listing software products (and not only) always attract a lot of attention?
You probably know the ones, they typically look like this:
- “What tech stack are you using?”
- “My current tech stack …”
- “Awesome oss software” - the “awesome” lists of github
- “top 100 tools for marketing”
- “what are your favorite tools?”
And the examples they provide are usually in the form:
<some_cool_product> for X
<some piece of tech>Example:
- cloudflare for emails and domains
- tailwindcss
- laravel on the backend
- some_random_sass for analytics
- postgres
- some_oss_tool for screenshots
- neovim for editing
I think why this type of content tends to have success is:
- people are curious about what others are using and why they use it
- to discover new shiny tech and utilities
- for inspiration (woah, what an awesome SaaS, I bet I could do what they do!)
Anyway, Merry Christmas!