minylist for founders
The must-have tools for founders
Early on you write the emails, post the updates, film the demo and build the first version yourself. Five tools take the slowest of those jobs off your plate without two of them overlapping.
Tools
5
one per job, no overlap
Self-hostable
0 of 5
run them on your own server
Free to start
3 of 5
free or free-tier pricing
Stands in for
Wispr Flow, Bubble
and 3 more
The founders stack at a glance
Pricing, license and the paid tool each pick stands in for.
One tool per job, and why
Each pick comes with the catch we ran into. Swaps are listed where there's a cheaper or self-hosted option.
- 1
Dictation
Typeless for dictation
Speak instead of type, and get clean text in any app
Rated 4.3 / 5
Talk through emails, replies and docs and get clean text back. The free plan caps words per week, and yearly Pro is $12 a month.
- Freemium
- Proprietary
- Replaces Wispr Flow
- 2
First app
MWM AI for first app
Describe an app and a squad of AI agents builds it natively
Rated 3.9 / 5
Describe an app and get a native iOS and Android build with store assets. Credits are limited, and full source export needs the $149 plan.
- Paid
- Proprietary
- Replaces Bubble
- 3
Social posting
Typefully for social posting
Write, schedule and publish social posts from one editor
Rated 4.3 / 5
Batch a week of X and LinkedIn posts in one sitting. Check current plan prices, since third-party listings disagree.
- Freemium
- Proprietary
- Replaces Hootsuite
- 4
Explainer video
HeyGen for explainer video
Turn a script into a video with an AI avatar, in your language
Rated 4.4 / 5
A demo or update video from a script, with no camera. Free is limited to 3 one-minute videos a month.
- Freemium
- Proprietary
- Replaces Synthesia
- 5
Recurring chores
Squad for recurring chores
AI teammates that run your recurring work across your tools
Rated 3.5 / 5
AI teammates that chase invoices and triage the inbox, with approvals. It costs $99 plus the AI plan it runs on.
- Paid
- Proprietary
- Replaces Zapier
Stacks for other roles
Not the right fit? Browse the rest of the catalog.
Every tool here has its own review with real pricing and the limits we hit.
ChatGPT
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Perplexity
Grok