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Software We Use
We use software selectively and intentionally. This list is designed to be exhaustive for 80% of software use at Flexpa.
If you are setting up a developer machine for the first time you can take a look at Homebrew to install many of these dependencies automatically
Tool | Purpose | Access control |
|---|---|---|
🔑 1Password | Password manager | |
🔮 Around | Video calling that doesn't suck (used for internal meetings) | Onboarding task (Ops) |
🆔 Auth0 | Authentication and authorization platform | Onboarding (Ops) |
👷 AWS | Underlying infrastructure provider | Onboarding (CTO) |
🕵 Doppler | Secrets management | |
📆 Cal.com | Meeting scheduling assistant | Invite only (depending on role) |
📝 DatoCMS | Headless Content Management system powering marketing website | Onboarding task (CTO) |
🐕 Datadog | Logging, monitoring & security | Onboarding (CTO) |
✍️ Figma | Design & Branding | |
🎥 Fireflies | Meeting transcription and notetaking | Invite only (depending on role) |
🎈Fly.io | App deployment | Onboarding task (CTO) |
📚 Gitbook | Knowledge management | |
👨💻 Github | Public and private code repositories and project management | Onboarding task (CTO) |
✉️ Google Apps | Identity, Email, Sheets, Docs, and Calendar | Onboarding task (CTO) |
🔤 Grammarly | Spelling and grammar checker | Onboarding (Ops) |
👥 Gusto | U.S. HRIS & Payroll | Onboarding (Ops) |
👥 Humi | Canada HRIS & Payroll | Onboarding (Ops) |
🚦Instatus | Status page | |
📈 Kable | Usage-based Billing and Analytics for API Products | Invite only (depending on role) |
🎙 Loom | Screen recording | Onboarding task (Ops) |
🎨 Miro | White-boarding | Onboarding task (Ops) |
📥 Slack | Messaging and chat | |
☑️ Typeform | Form builder | Invite only (depending on role) |
🔄 | Frontend previews and deployment | |
⌨️ Visual Studio Code | Paired programming | |
🎥 Zoom | External Meetings | Onboarding task (CTO) |
Before adding new tools ask questions like:
- Is this something we can do with another tool already?
- Is this something that is dramatically better than the alternatives?
- Will 80% of the company possibly use this tool?
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