Tom Johnson

I was recently reminded of @Dockhunt and how fun it was to see what kinds of apps different folks kept in their dock. I remember it being a cool way to discover some new products I hadn't seen before. I'm also just a big fan of desktop apps over web apps. I find it a lot easier to stay focused when I'm flipping between apps vs flipping between tabs.

These are the apps in my dock:

• @Google Chrome - Pretty basic. I've really been considering switching over to @Horse though.

• @Slack - The de facto option.

• @Superhuman - Maybe the fastest I've become a fan of a product. I think I was pushing it on others within a few hours.

• @Notion - Great for documentation and collaborating. I also use it personally for tracking books I read and video games I play, along with tracking personal projects.

• Notion Calendar - The menu bar aspect of this is really what sold me. It makes it so much easier to stay on top of my meetings every day.

• @Linear - We just recently switched over to Linear here at @Product Hunt and I've been loving it. Pro tip: if you prefer the desktop app, there's a setting to open links in the app, but you can only set that option through the web version.

• @iTerm2 - I've tried others, but this is my favorite. This + @Neovim is just

• @Claude by Anthropic - This has been my LLM of choice for a while, and I really like having it as a desktop app. Especially the keyboard shortcut to quickly bring it up and ask something.

• @Tandem - Super easy to stay in touch and sync with teammates. Incredibly useful for a remote team.

• @Spotify - I typically have a YouTube video on in the background, but if I'm writing or doing something more focused, I'll typically have some kind of Jazz going.

Okay, so for context, I work at Basedash and we've been doing a bunch of research into trends around databases, tech, emerging back-end tooling, since it directly impacts our roadmap and what types of users we can reach. It's not easy to figure out industry-wide trends without an industry-wide survey, so we launched The State of Database Survey for 2022 to do just that. There's ones for design tools, Javascript, but not one for databases. Would you all be willing to take the survey share it and with one another? We're planning to launch the results in April here on PH, and of course the more submissions we can get the more accurate the results will be. http://www.stateofdb.com/

A lot of no-code tools of the web building category are aimed toward web designers/marketing designer? I'm curious from a product designer lense, what would be an ideal no-code experience in designing/developing product experiences?