Nilay Mody
Founder at Central (YC S24), Centralhq.com
At my last YC company, all I wanted to do was design and build stuff. Instead, I was always drowning in bullsh*t work despite using the best platforms. This is why we’re building Central. Central is an automated back-office (ABO) designed for founders. We handle payroll, benefits, bookkeeping, taxes etc.
Nilay's Startup
38 essential tools our startup can't survive without:
35 tools

Mercury
Banking

Stable
Mailbox

Stripe Payments
Payments

Central
Tax & accounting

Puzzle
Tax & accounting, State compliance, Payroll & benefits

Flightcontrol
Cloud

Temporal Technologies
Workflows

Graphite
PRs

Neon
DB

Ellipsis
Code review

Sentry
Error tracking

Cursor
Editor

Figma
Design

Mixpanel
Analytics

Whimsical
Wire-framing

Active Campaign Postmark

Framer
Website

HubSpot CMS Hub
CRM

Close
CRM

Cal.com
Scheduling

Clay
Research

Smartlead
Outbound

Kleo
Content

Typefully
Posting

Slack
Comms

Linear
Tasks

Superhuman

Notion
Wiki

Pylon
Support

1Password
Passwords

Fathom
Recorder

Raycast
Shortcuts

Granola
Meeting notes

Claude
AI

ChatGPT
AI