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How to ask for (and give) a tool recommendation

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Tool threads turn into lists of names very quickly. A name without context is not much help.

When you ask, include:

  • What you need the tool to do
  • What you use today and why you are leaving
  • Your budget per month
  • Your scale: users, emails sent, events tracked, whatever the tool charges by
  • Anything it must work with
  • Whether you can self-host

When you recommend, include:

  • How long you have used it and at what size
  • What you pay
  • The thing that annoys you about it. Every tool has one.
  • What would make you leave

Please disclose if you built the tool, work for the company, or are posting a referral link. Recommending your own product is fine in context. Hiding that it is yours is not.

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