Our 5 Favorite Tools We'd Recommend to Any Startup

Since our start we’ve been working in a lean manner, with a small team and often working remotely. Our specific setup required a great set of tools to make things work. We’ve tried out many of them, some we disregarded, others we’ve fallen in love with. We’ll share our true business tool romances, the ones we couldn't do without.

Asana

The tool was developed to improve the internal workflow of Facebook, but it soon became clear that any company can benefit from it.In Asana you can add to-do’s, group them under projects, and communicate about them with your teammates. The great thing about communicating within Asana is that it happens relevant to the task/project at hand, so the context is right there. Next to that, it's easy to organise your tasks, and to get a quick overview of what the rest of the team is working on as well.

SocialcastThe best way to describe Socialcast is as “Facebook for business”. You have a similar stream where team members can post things, which other team members can like and comment on. Socialcast is a great tool for discussions on a certain topic, before it's been translated into specific goals or tasks.

SlackSlack is so hot right now, it hardly needs an introduction. It’s an instant messenger team communication tool, allowing you to communicate through chat with your teammates one-on-one or in groups through channels.

GitHubGitHub is the tool used to discuss about features and to develop software. It’s a webhosting service for software-development projects. Advantages include the visual display or projects, the option to fork with a mouse-click, the option to follow developers, and the fact that it's a social network in which ownership is maintained over what is uploaded.

FeedlyThis is an RSS Reader we use to follow blogs and websites. It arranges content like an online magazine, prioritizes popular content, and allows you to group the different resources to your liking. Together with PocketApp it's our most important tool to stay informed about our fields and industries of interest.