(2025-01-11) Rachitsky Whats In Your Stack The State Of Tech Tools In2025

Lenny Rachitsky: What’s in your stack: The state of tech tools in 2025... insights from over 6,500 of you... 50% work in product, 11% are engineers, 10% are founders, and the rest work in other cross-functional roles, including marketing, design, and growth. (product team)

Company size: ~45% work in 1-to-100-employee companies

• ~25% work in 101-to-1,000-employee companies
• ~20% work in 1,001-to-5,000-employee companies

The big 10 headlines

17% of respondents already use Cursor regularly (launched just two years ago!). 10% of all participants use v0 and Replit. 5% use Bolt.

As the third-most-used tool overall, Slack.com continues to crush it. 72% of participants use Slack regularly. It’s only behind ChatGTP and Gmail

The Jira paradox and Linear’s insurgency. 68% of participants use Jira, but it also tops the “we wish we could use a different tool” list. Enter Linear.app: the fastest-growing alternative to Jira, and already used by over 10% of participants.

Figma Slides and Canva have become big players in presentations. They’re already far ahead of Apple Keynote and closing in on PowerPoint

Google Docs remains a go-to for collaboration, but Notion is gaining steam. Notion is seen as “good for everything,” and it’s catching up to the big players, with 37% of respondents preferring it. Notion also came in second place for project management after Jira and fourth place for CRM.

Miro continues to stay ahead of FigJam for virtual whiteboarding, just barely. But FigJam is gaining ground (because everyone’s using Figma…).

Figma continues to be the ubiquitous tool for design and UX

The surprise player is Canva. While it’s not competing directly with Figma for professional UX work, it’s democratizing design for everyone else. Product managers, marketers, and engineers are using it to create quick visuals without bothering their design teams.

Figma continues to be the ubiquitous tool for design. 97% of designers report using it as their primary design tool.

Another trend emerged from the data: Miro kept showing up in our “other” category, suggesting people aren’t just switching presentation tools—they’re questioning whether they need traditional slides at all. The line between presentations, whiteboards, and collaborative spaces is blurring, and this might be just the beginning.

Figma Slides and Canva have become big players in presentations

One engineering manager said, “Just moved off the Atlassian suite to Linear.app, and we love it. Much more useful in terms of milestones and flexibility. Easier to filter views and build a personal workspace setup.” Linear’s popularity is on par with that of Asana, a company founded in 2008.