A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
IMO many people end up with a tool fetish, but some of these tools aren&#x27;t worth it in a small startup:<p>1. You don&#x27;t need Slack ($13 &#x2F; month) as a two person startup — just do email and Skype<p>2. Notion ($16 &#x2F; month) — this sounds like a glorified shared note taking app — just use Google Docs, or Dropbox Paper, or text files in a Dropbox folder<p>3. Sentry ($26 &#x2F; month) — OK, this might be worth it, but if you have a high volume then it gets expensive — we host our own Sentry instance and past the initial setup it has mostly been a hands off deployment<p>4. Cloudflare ($20 &#x2F; month) — not sure why they felt the need to go with the Pro account, maybe they have a lot of page rules, but for us the free account has been more than enough<p>5. LinkedIn Sales Navigator ($80 &#x2F; month), SalesQL ($29 &#x2F; month), Hubspot ($45 per month) — these are sales tools that should pay for themselves and evaluating that is easy, they either get you the leads to monetize or they don&#x27;t and if not, then they aren&#x27;t worth the monthly subscription<p>6. Figma ($24 &#x2F; month) — I have mixed feelings about it, I haven&#x27;t seen instances in which such software helped; might be worth it if the results are tangible and it saves you the cost of a designer; this too should be easy to evaluate and if it gets you the same results as drawing on whiteboard or paper, then get rid of it