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I'm Clinton. I've migrated 17 founder stacks, watched 88% of them rebuild automations from scratch when their tools got acquired, and got tired of every "best tools" list being affiliate spam. Fewertools is what I wish existed when I started: a single place where the rankings are independent, the methodology is published, and somebody actually used the tool before recommending it.
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