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Startup Toolbox

The curated, crowdsourced collection of tools for startup makers.

Managed by Ravi Ojha Β· Filled in by the community.

Startup Toolbox

Table of contents

Website

Hosted website builders

  • Framer - Design and publish production websites on a canvas, with an AI design agent.
  • Relume - AI sitemaps, wireframes, and component libraries for Webflow, Figma, and React.
  • Softr - Build client portals and internal tools on Airtable, Notion, or Google Sheets.
  • Unicorn Platform [PH] - Landing page and site builder for startups.
  • Shopify [PH] - The leading e-commerce site builder with a large ecosystem.
  • Webflow [PH] - Visual website builder for professionals.
  • Weblium [PH] - A flexible builder with a nice editor.
  • Umso - Website builder for startups. Formerly Landen.
  • Tilda [PH] - Powerful landing page builder.
  • Carrd [PH] - Slick and cheap site builder. Made by an indie.
  • Strikingly [PH] - Website builder created by YC alumni.

Static generators

  • Astro - Content-focused web framework that ships zero JavaScript by default.
  • Eleventy - Simpler static site generator with a flexible template story.
  • Jekyll [PH] - A static website and blog generator with lots of templates.
  • Designmodo [PH] - Beautifully designed yet pricey HTML landing pages.
  • Hugo - The fastest static site generator.
  • Gatsby [PH] - React-based framework for content-heavy websites.

Lead generation

  • Proof [PH] - Adds some social proof to your website.
  • TrustPulse - Another social proof widget service.

Design

Prototypes and wireframes (UX and user flow)

  • Penpot - Open-source design and prototyping tool for product teams.
  • Sketch [PH] - Industry leading design toolkit. OSX only.
  • Figma [PH] - Collaborative browser-based design tool.
  • Flinto [PH] - Quickly Create iOS Prototypes.
  • Marvel [PH] - All-in-one design solution.
  • Proto [PH] - Interactive, high-fidelity mobile prototypes.
  • Axure - Prototype and build interactions. Provides a Sketch plugin.
  • Mockflow [PH] - Online wireframing tool with a handful of collaboration integrations.
  • Whimsical [PH] - Create diagrams, flowcharts and wireframes.
  • Overflow [PH] - The user flow diagramming tool for designers.
  • Origami [PH] - A free design prototyping toolkit.
  • Balsamiq [PH] - Popular low-fidelity prototyping tool.
  • Flowmapp [PH] - UX planning tool for creating a visual sitemap.
  • Gloomaps - Visual sitemaps made easy.
  • Moqups [PH] - Mockup and wireframing tool.

Logo and branding

Graphics

  • Midjourney - AI image generation for brand and marketing visuals.
  • Recraft - AI design tool for brand-consistent illustrations, icons, and mockups.
  • serif.sh - Turn quotes into clean, shareable images.
  • Canva [PH] Amazingly simple graphic design toolπŸ’™
  • Pablo by Buffer [PH] - Create engaging images for your social media posts.
  • Designbold - Create a stunning design (posters, social networks etc).
  • Pixteller [PH] - Free Online Photo & Animation Maker.
  • Stencil [PH] - The fastest way to create and share visual content.
  • Snappa [PH] - Create online graphics in a snap.
  • RemoveBg [PH] Remove the background of any image. API or online πŸ’™
  • EzGIF [PH] - Resize, crop, and edit GIFs in your browser πŸ’™
  • BannerSnack - The Original Online Banner Maker.

UI libraries

  • shadcn/ui - Copy-paste React components built on Radix and Tailwind.
  • Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework.
  • Ant.design - Stunning ready-to-use ReactJS components library. Sketch files included. By Alibaba πŸ’™
  • Bulma [PH] - Neat flexbox-based CSS framework.
  • Bootstrap - World’s most popular front-end component library.

Data Visualisation, diagrams and infographics

  • Excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for hand-drawn diagrams.
  • tldraw - Infinite canvas SDK and collaborative whiteboard.
  • Miro [PH] - Enhanced whiteboard. Various use cases. Ex. Realtimeboard πŸ’™
  • Mindmeister [PH] - Create and share mind maps on mobile devices or the web.
  • Gliffy [PH] - Create diagrams online. Atlassian products integration.
  • Lucidchart [PH] - Easily draw diagrams & collaborate with others online.
  • Visme [PH] - Create visual content, infographics and presentations.
  • Infogram [PH] - Create data-driven reports, maps and infographics.
  • Xara - Create visual and engaging business and marketing documents.
  • Looker Studio - Live, interactive reports and dashboards for Google data. Formerly Data Studio.
  • Witeboard [PH] - Witeboard (not wHiteboard) is a real-time whiteboard for a team.

Presentations and slides

  • Gamma - AI presentations, docs, and websites from a prompt.
  • Pitch - Collaborative presentation software for modern teams.
  • Beautiful.ai [PH] - AI-powered presentations.
  • Shower [PH] Open source HTML slide creation and presentation engine.
  • Slidecamp [PH] - Library of PowerPoint slides to kickstart your presentation.
  • Haikudeck [PH] - Create an amazing presentation on the web, iPad, or iPhone.
  • Visme [PH] - Create interactive online presentations in HTML5.

Stocks

Images stocks

  • Unsplash [PH] - Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos πŸ’™
  • Pexels [PH] - Free high quality photos you can use everywhere πŸ’™
  • Everypixel - AI to find images that suit to your project.
  • Pixabay [PH] - Royalty-free high-quality images for commercial use.
  • StockSnap [PH] - Beautiful, free stock photos.
  • Burst by Shopify [PH] - Free stock photos for everyone.
  • StickPNG [PH] - Catalogue of free transparent PNGs.
  • Foter - Millions of premium Royalty-Free stock photos.
  • IsoRepublic - Thousands of Free High-Resolution CC0 Photos and Videos.

Icons stocks

Videos stocks

Other stocks

Mockups

Other design tools

  • Pttrns [PH] - iPhone and iPad user interface patterns.
  • Wake - Share, search, store design files.
  • Zeplin [PH] - Collaboration & handoff for UI designers/frontend developers.

Support and customer communication

Live customer chats

  • Chatra [PH] - Live chat software done right.
  • Intercom [PH] - Live chat, support, knowledge base and more.
  • Crisp [PH] - Live chat and live support for your product.
  • Olark [PH] - Easy to use live chat software.
  • Drift [PH] - Live chat and bots for leads verification.
  • Helpcrunch [PH] - Live chat email marketing.
  • Tawk - Free live chat widget (pay only for chat agents if you want).
  • User [PH] - Affordable marketing automation with quick setup.
  • Tidio - Live chat widget + chat bot builder.
  • Livechat [PH] - Live chat and help desk software.
  • Userlike [PH] - Fully customizable live chat for website & mobile support.
  • Facebook Messenger - Talk to your customers through Facebook Messenger.

Helpdesk

  • Ticketping - Slack-native helpdesk. Email, chat, and forms land as Slack threads. No per-seat pricing.
  • Plain - Support tool designed for B2B software companies.
  • Freshdesk [PH] - Customer support software with built in survey tool.
  • Zendesk [PH] - Customer service and engagement products.
  • Dixa [PH] - Support all of your customers from one platform.
  • Kayako [PH] - Unified customer service platform.
  • Response - Customer help center and knowledge base.
  • Uservoice [PH] - Collect, rank, and act on customer feedback.
  • Support Bee - Ticketing system for collaborative customer support.
  • Help Scout [PH] - Help desk software for a more human & helpful experience.
  • Elev [PH] - Self-served support & support driven knowledge management.

Onboarding

Other support services

  • Instabug [PH] - Bug reporting and in-app feedback for mobile apps.
  • Canny [PH] - The easiest way to collect & manage feedback.
  • Surfly [PH] - Simple, fast, and secure co-browsing.

Payments, billing and distribution

  • Lemon Squeezy - Merchant of record for digital products and subscriptions.
  • Polar - Monetization for developers and open-source projects.
  • Stripe [PH] - The default payment integration and management.
  • Paddle [PH] - Everything you need to sell apps and content πŸ’™
  • Gumroad [PH] - Sell anything directly to anyone.
  • Podia [PH] - Easily sell memberships, online courses & digital downloads.
  • Sellfy [PH] - E-commerce platform for creators.
  • Braintree [PH] - Accept payments online a division of PayPal.
  • Recurly [PH] - Subscription billing automation.
  • Square - Online and offline payment solutions.
  • Paypal [PH] - Accept payments online.
  • Dwolla - Payment platform for technologists.
  • Paymentwall - Payments platform to accept payments and prevent fraud.
  • Fastspring - Subscriptions & payments for companies selling software, content or apps online.

User analytics and reporting

  • PostHog - Open-source product analytics, session replay, feature flags, and surveys.
  • Plausible - Simple, privacy-friendly website analytics.
  • Umami - Open-source, privacy-focused analytics you can self-host.
  • Google Analytics - Collect data about your website visitors and their interactions on your website.
  • New Relic - Essential business insights.
  • Segment [PH] - Collect your data once, then send it to 200+ tools.
  • Mixpanel [PH] - Powerful product analytics.
  • Hotjar [PH] - See how your visitors are really using your site.
  • Heap - Captures every web, mobile, and cloud interaction.
  • Keen - Provide analytics dashboards to your customers.
  • Localytics - Collect data and start personalizing your marketing campaigns.
  • Usefathom [PH] - Simple, trustworthy website analytics.
  • Prodlytic [PH] - Analytics that auto-surfaces, stores, and exports user data.
  • Matomo [PH] - Open web analytics platform. Ex. Piwik.
  • Inspectlet [PH] - Record and watch everything your visitors do.
  • Cyfe [PH] - All-in-one business dashboard.
  • Quantcast - AI-driven audience insights, targeting and measurement.
  • Tableau - Business intelligence and analytics software.
  • Clari - Full funnel accountability across sales, marketing and customer success.
  • Median [PH] - OSX app for displaying analytics data.
  • Smartlook - Qualitative analytics for websites and mobile apps.
  • Fullstory [PH] - See every click, swipe and scroll on your site.
  • Snitcher [PH] - See which companies are visiting your website.
  • Count.ly [PH] - Open source, enterprise mobile & web analytics platform.
  • Woopra [PH] - Event tracking, funnels and cohort analysis in real time.
  • Taplytics [PH] - A/B testing for mobile, web & more.

Mobile only

  • Adjust - Unify all your marketing activities into one powerful platform.
  • Kochava - Mobile attribution platform and mobile app analytics.
  • Appsamurai [PH] - Self-service app marketing tool for startups.
  • Sensortower [PH] - App Marketing made simple, using market intelligence.
  • Applause - Test any device/OS combination in the world.
  • Appfigures [PH] - App analytics and ASO.
  • data.ai - App Store and Google Play market intelligence. Formerly App Annie.
  • Amplitude [PH] - Mobile analytics without worrying about data volume.
  • Apptopia [PH] - Competitive intelligence for the mobile app economy.
  • Flurry - App analytics for iOS & Android.
  • Marketing Platform by Google [PH] - Google's unified and improved marketing and analytics tools.
  • App Analytics by Apple - App’s performance and unique insights with data.

Business analytics

  • Scoro [PH] - Manage time, sales, finances and reporting in one platform.
  • Baremetrics [PH] - Tool for forecasting the your product's growth.
  • Chartmogul [PH] - Recurring revenue analytics for Stripe, Braintree, Recurly.
  • Vitally [PH] - Analytics and insights to drive B2B startup success.

Finance

Automation

  • Make - Visual automation platform. Formerly Integromat.
  • n8n - Source-available workflow automation you can self-host.
  • Relay - AI-native automation with human-in-the-loop steps.
  • Zapier [PH] - Connect and automate 500+ web apps πŸ’™
  • IFTTT [PH] - Get all your apps and devices talking to each other.
  • Tray [PH] - Build powerful integrations between any service.
  • Power Automate - Workflow automation from Microsoft. Formerly Microsoft Flow.
  • SheetGo [PH] - Create workflows from your spreadsheet.
  • Flowxo [PH] - Build automated workflows on top of your existing cloud apps.
  • Outfunnel [PH] - Connect your sales and marketing data, deeply and easily.

HR and payroll

  • Deel - Hire, pay, and manage global contractors and employees.
  • Rippling - HR, IT, and finance in one platform.
  • Remote - Global employment and payroll for distributed teams.
  • Gusto [PH] - Payroll, benefits, and HR.
  • Jazzhr [PH] - Streamline every stage of your recruitment process.

Forms and surveys

  • Tally - Free, unlimited forms that feel like writing in Notion.
  • Fillout - Form builder with calculations, payments, and workflows.
  • Typeform [PH] - Build beautiful conversational forms, surveys and more.
  • Jotform [PH] - Build forms on any device.
  • Google Forms - Create online surveys and quizzes.
  • Qualaroo [PH] - Realtime feedback platform that helps companies capture customer decisions as they happen.
  • Survicate [PH] - Collect feedback from customers.
  • Paperform [PH] - Form builder with intuitive UI.
  • Formsite - Create online forms and surveys.
  • CognitoForms [PH] - Build advanced forms for any device.
  • SurveyMonkey - Leading survey software.
  • Responster - Design and share engaging surveys in minutes.
  • Alchemer - Survey and feedback platform. Formerly SurveyGizmo.
  • CrowdSignal - Collect, organize and analyze data from a variety of sources, including social media and mobile.
  • 123formbuilder - Build forms & surveys with drag-and-drop in real time.
  • SurveyAnyPlace - Interactive questionnaires without the hassle.
  • Formist - Collect feedback. Gather reservations. Take payments.

Endpoints

  • Getform [PH] - Form backend platform for designers and developers.
  • Formkeep [PH] - Form endpoints for designers and developers.

Other forms

Tech

Status, monitoring and ping

Bug tracking

  • Rollbar [PH] - Real-time error tracking for Javascript and more.
  • Sentry [PH] - Open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time πŸ’™
  • Datadog [PH] - Monitor engineering metrics on beautiful dashboards.
  • Bugsnag [PH] - Automated crash monitoring for web and mobile apps.
  • Bugsee [PH] - See video, network & logs leading up to bugs or crashes. For iOS and Android apps.
  • Logrocket [PH] - See video, network & logs leading up to bugs in your app.
  • Shake [PH] - Bug reporting and tracking tool for mobile apps.

Log inspectors

  • Coralogix [PH] - Machine learning powered log analytics, made for startups.
  • Logflare - Affordable log management & event analytics.
  • Papertrail [PH] - Get a flight data recorder for your system & apps πŸ’™

Cloud hosting

  • Railway - Deploy apps, databases, and workers with minimal config.
  • Render - Unified cloud for static sites, services, and Postgres.
  • Fly.io - Run full-stack apps close to your users.
  • Supabase - Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres, auth, and storage.
  • Heroku [PH] - Cloud application platform. Cut down devops time πŸ’™
  • Firebase by Google [PH] - Hosting, auth, DB and other services for apps.
  • GitHub pages [PH] - Host a static page for free. With SSL and custom domain.
  • Vercel - Frontend cloud for Next.js and modern web apps. Formerly Zeit Now.
  • Amazon Web Services - The world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.
  • Microsoft Azure - Ever-expanding set of cloud computing services.
  • Digital Ocean [PH] - Cloud infrastructure provider.
  • Google Cloud - Suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally.
  • OpenShift by Red Hat - Container application platform. Built on Docker and Kubernetes.
  • BlueHost - Reliable hosting provider.
  • Dreamhost - Fast, secure & always up web hosting provider.
  • Surge.sh [PH] - CLI for publishing static web apps to the Surge CDN for free.
  • Netlify [PH] - Easily deploy modern static websites.
  • GitLab Pages [PH] - Websites for your GitLab projects, groups, or user account.
  • Linode - Cloud-hosting, backup and other services.

Auth

  • Clerk - Auth and user management for modern apps.
  • WorkOS - Enterprise SSO, SCIM, and audit logs for B2B SaaS.
  • Better Auth - Framework-agnostic TypeScript auth library.

Scraping

  • Firecrawl - Turn websites into clean LLM-ready markdown or structured data.
  • Import.io [PH] - A data extractor that requires no coding.
  • Dexi - Leading enterprise web scraping software.
  • Parse Hub [PH] - Turn dynamic websites into APIs.
  • 80Legs - Easy web scraping tools and cloud-based web crawling.
  • Scraping Hub - Open source web scraping tool.
  • Scrapy - An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data from websites.
  • Scraper Chrome Extension - Scraper gets data out of web pages and into spreadsheets.
  • Web Scraper Chrome Extension - Free web site data extraction tool.

Email services (SMTP and transactional)

  • Resend - Modern email API for developers.
  • Postmark - Transactional email with fast, reliable delivery.
  • MailGun - API first SMTP service for sending transactional or bulk email πŸ’™
  • SendGrid - Scalable email service for developers and marketers.
  • AWS SES - Cheap and reliable SMTP service.
  • Mailjet [PH] - Send marketing and transactional emails with one account.
  • Mandrill - Mandrill is a transactional email API for Mailchimp users.
  • Mail Trap [PH] - Fake SMTP. Send Test Emails without spamming real customers.

Deploy

  • DeployHQ [PH] - Deploy from your repository to your server in minutes.
  • Dokku [PH] - Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash.

Tech stack explorer

  • Built With [PH] - See technologies behind websites in real-time.
  • Wappalyzer [PH] - Identify the software used on the websites you visit.
  • Stackshare [PH] - Share your stack, see what other companies are using.

Site performance

Other tech tools

  • Neon - Serverless Postgres with branching.
  • Abstract APIs - Suite of APIs for everyday needs (validating emails, creating user avatars, calculating VAT, etc).
  • Public APIs list - A collective list of free APIs for use in software and web development.
  • Codacy [PH] - Improve code quality by automating code reviews.
  • Algolia [PH] - Building blocks for creating great search.
  • Cloudflare [PH] - The web performance & security company.
  • Let's Encrypt - Get free SSL. Even *wildcard.

Product building

Drag-and-drop and AI builders

  • Lovable - Describe an app and get a working full-stack product.
  • Bolt - Prompt-to-app builder that runs in the browser.
  • v0 - AI UI generation from Vercel.
  • FlutterFlow - Visual builder for Flutter apps.
  • Bubble [PH] - Build and host web applications without having to write code.
  • Thunkable [PH] - The platform where anyone can build their own mobile apps.
  • SuperNova [PH] - Turn Sketch into iOS, Android, React and Flutter.
  • Buildfire [PH] - App builder for iOS & Android.
  • Appspotr [PH] - Create, preview & publish your native iOS & Android apps.
  • Appmachine [PH] - Build your own mobile app, no technical knowledge needed.
  • GoodBarber - Create a native iOS or Android app and submit it to the stores.
  • Appsgeyser - Create apps for Android without coding.
  • Shoutem [PH] - Create React Native, cross-platform mobile apps easily.
  • Appgyver [PH] - Visual builder for rapidly building enterprise apps.
  • Appinstitute [PH] - Create iOS & Android apps quickly with no coding.

Comments as a service

  • Giscus - Comments powered by GitHub Discussions.
  • Disqus - Embeddable commenting platform. Loads tons of tracking scripts.

Voice and speech recognition

  • ElevenLabs - AI voice generation, cloning, and speech-to-text.
  • VoiceFlow [PH] - Build voice apps in your browser without coding.
  • Wit.ai [PH] - Build applications and devices that you can talk or text to.
  • DialogFlow - Voice and text conversational interfaces powered by AI. Formerly api.ai.
  • Textit - Visually build multi-platform messaging & voice bots to engage visitors.

Files uploading and processing

  • UploadThing - File uploads for Next.js and modern stacks.
  • Uploadcare [PH] - File upload and management API for web and mobile apps πŸ’™
  • Filestack [PH] - A complete file infrastructure for web & mobile apps.
  • Uppy [PH] - The next open source file uploader for web browsers.
  • Shubox [PH] - Simple, fast, customizable uploads from your web app to S3.

User testing

  • Maze - Rapid product research and unmoderated user tests.
  • UserTesting [PH] - Get feedback on your website and product.
  • Lyssna - Test designs and mockups on real people. Formerly UsabilityHub.
  • Userbrain [PH] - Weekly videos of users testing your site.

AI

  • ChatGPT - General-purpose AI assistant for writing, coding, and research.
  • Claude - AI assistant strong at writing, analysis, and long-context work.
  • Cursor - AI-first code editor.
  • Perplexity - AI search engine with cited answers.
  • Granola - AI notepad for meetings.
  • v0 - Generate UI from a prompt, by Vercel.
  • Midjourney - AI image generation.
  • ElevenLabs - AI voice generation and cloning.
  • botprompts.fyi - Describe an intent, get a structured agent recipe.

Marketing and growth

Email

Mailing services

  • Beehiiv - Newsletter platform built for growth.
  • Loops - Email for SaaS. Onboarding, transactional, and marketing in one place.
  • MailerLite [PH] - Build beautiful email newsletters with drag-and-drop editor. Much cheaper than Mailchimp. πŸ’™
  • Mad Mimi - Simple email marketing.
  • EmailOctopus - Email marketing for less, via Amazon SES.
  • MailChimp - All-in-one email marketing platform.
  • GetResponse - Easy email, landing pages, and marketing automation.
  • Elastic Email - Email newsletter service.
  • Benchmarkemail - Send beautiful, responsive campaigns in minutes with customizable email templates.
  • ActiveCampaign - Email Marketing. Marketing Automation. Sales CRM. Messaging.
  • Kit - Email marketing software for creators. Formerly ConvertKit.
  • Aweber - Powerful and simple email marketing.
  • Inbox - Send & analyze email marketing campaigns.
  • SendinBlue [PH] - Free email marketing solution for entrepreneurs.
  • Elink [PH] - Turn links into beautiful newsletters & web pages in minutes.

Email validators (list verification)

  • Proofy [PH] - Quickly validate and verify your email lists.
  • Verifalia - Email list cleaning and real-time email verification service.
  • QuickEmailVerification - Email Verification Service.
  • Emailable - Automated email verification.
  • EmailListVerify - Get rid of spam traps, hard bounces, disposable or catch-all emails without breaking your budget.

Email templates

Other email services

Blogging & publishing

SEO

  • Ahrefs [PH] - A powerful service to count and analyze backlinks to a domain.
  • Semrush - Solid SEO toolkit.
  • Moz Tools - All your keyword research in one tool.
  • Botify [PH] - Unified suite of applications to merge technical SEO, content, and real rankings.
  • SE ranking [PH] - Π‘loud-based SEO platform for marketers & digital agencies.
  • Oncrawl - The technical SEO platform.
  • DynoMapper - Organize website projects using visual sitemaps, content inventory, content audit, content planning, daily keyword tracking, and website accessibility testing.
  • SERPwatcher [PH] - SEO tool for tracking keyword positions in Google SERP.
  • RankTracker - Research keywords, analyse the competition, and track your search engine ranking.
  • Accuranker [PH] - The world’s fastest keyword rank tracker.
  • Serpbook - Tag and categorize keywords for easier client management and faster project setup.
  • Serps - Track thousands of keywords for multiple search engines and languages.
  • Sistrix - A premier tool used by SEO professionals.
  • AdvancedWebRanking - Fresh rankings daily, weekly and on demand. For desktop, mobile and local searches.
  • Google Search Console - Check indexing status and optimize visibility of your website.

Keyword research tools

Content Marketing

  • Buzzsumo [PH] - Identify the most shared links and key influencers.
  • Hemingway [PH] - Make your writing bold and clear, send to Medium or Wordpress.
  • Grammarly [PH] - Solves all of your typo problems.
  • AnswerThePublic - A free visual keyword research and content ideas tool.
  • QuestionDB - Enter in a keyword to find the questions that your readers are asking.

Growth and marketing automation

  • Clay - Enrichment and outbound workflows from 100+ data sources.
  • Customer - Send targeted emails, push notifications, and SMS.
  • Adroll [PH] - Ad re-targetting on mobile and web.
  • Act-on - Marketing automation software and lead generation platform.
  • LeadSquared - Marketing automation and CRM software.
  • SalesLoft [PH] - The sales engagement platform created for salespeople, by salespeople.
  • Mautic [PH] - Free, open source, marketing automation Highrise alternative.
  • Vero [PH] - The messaging platform that helps you drive customer engagement.
  • Ontraport - Emails, SMS, landing pages, forms and CRM.
  • Pardot by Salesforce - B2B marketing automation.
  • Ortto - Visual marketing automation. Formerly Autopilot.
  • Marketo by Adobe - ABM combined with industry-leading marketing automation.

Copy

  • GoodEmailCopy - Email copy from great companies.
  • Nishi [PH] - A curated showcase of websites that nail copywriting.
  • DripScripts [PH] - Create automated email sequences in 60 seconds.
  • GreatEmailcopy - A dose of well-crafted emails from around the web.
  • GoodSalesEmails - Learn how some of the best companies are doing sales, by looking at their email campaigns.
  • CannedEmails [PH] - A minimal site with prewritten emails.

Video and animation creation

  • Descript - Edit video and podcasts by editing the transcript.
  • Runway - AI video generation and editing.
  • Powtoon [PH] - Create awesome animated videos and presentations.
  • Offeo [PH] - An online video maker to create beautiful social videos in minutes.
  • Hustl [PH] - Create awesome time-lapse videos of your Mac screen.
  • Animoto - Create impressive videos in minutes with a drag-and-drop video maker.
  • Rocketium [PH] - Transform text & media into stunning videos.
  • Animaker [PH] - Create animated videos with less effort, time and cost.
  • Adobe Express - Create social graphics, web pages, and short videos. Formerly Adobe Spark.
  • Wave - Create branded video content that will build your audience.
  • Shakr [PH] - Make amazing videos to rock your marketing.
  • Renderforest [PH] - Free animation and intro maker, slideshow and video creator.
  • Touchcast [PH] - Create an interactive presentation that mixes video with web content.
  • Biteable - Create a video from the huge selection of surefire templates.
  • Doodly [PH] - Create your own doodle video in just 60 seconds.

Social media management (SMM)

  • Typefully - Write, schedule, and analyze posts on X and LinkedIn.
  • Tweetdeck [PH] - TweetDeck offers a more convenient Twitter experience by letting you view multiple timelines in one easy interface.
  • Hootsuite - Manage all your social media in one place.
  • Quuu [PH] - Place to go to find hand-picked quality content to share on social media.
  • EmbedSocial - Display social media feeds, photo galleries and reviews on any website.
  • CrowdFire [PH] - Directive and automation for Twitter.
  • Fomo - Increase trust, traffic, and sales with social proof automation.
  • Fastory [PH] - Craft stunning Instagram stories, share them everywhere.
  • Keyhole [PH] - Realtime hashtag tracking for Twitter, Facebook, etc.
  • SocialInsider [PH] - Social media analytics & benchmarking tool for agencies.

Planners (content managers and schedulers)

  • Buffer [PH] - Plan, track, and analyze your SMM.
  • Amplifr [PH] - Schedule social media & messages, get actionable analytics.
  • Sendible - Powerful social media management software.
  • Edgar - Schedule and automate your content on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
  • Gain - Social media and content collaboration for agencies.
  • Swello - Social media scheduling and analytics.
  • Postfity - With our post scheduler you can manage social networks, schedule posts and engage your audiences.

Instagram tools

  • HypeAuditor - Influencer analytics and fraud detection for Instagram and YouTube.
  • MightyScout [PH] - Instagram influencer search and analytics.
  • Later - Visual planner for Instagram, TikTok, and other social channels.
  • Storyheap [PH] - Instagram Stories analytics.

Track mentions

Affiliate

  • Everflow - Affiliate and partner tracking platform.
  • Strackr [PH] - Affiliate dashboard that pulls networks into one place.

Referral

  • CloudSponge - Contact importer for referral and invite flows.

Market research

Paid ads

  • Goa.marketing - Get actionable data insights on your paid Search in Google Ads.
  • Skai - Paid media intelligence across search, social, and commerce. Formerly Kenshoo.

Affiliates

  • PartnerStack - Partner and affiliate program software.
  • Refersion - Affiliate tracking for e-commerce.
  • Smile - Loyalty and rewards programs for e-commerce.
  • ReferralCandy - Referral marketing for online stores.
  • Viral-loops [PH] - Referral campaign software for launches and waitlists.

Other marketing tools

  • WebEngage - Retention and lifecycle marketing platform.
  • Bonjoro [PH] - Send personal video messages to new customers.
  • Wistia [PH] - Video hosting and marketing for businesses.
  • Whatagraph [PH] - Marketing reports pulled from multiple channels.
  • Adespresso - Create, manage and analyze Facebook, Instagram, and Google ads.

Collaboration

Project and task management

  • Linear - Issue tracking built for high-performance software teams.
  • Trello [PH] - Kanban boards for tasks and projects. πŸ’™
  • Merlin [PH] - Mac project-planning app with Gantt charts.
  • Basecamp [PH] - Project management and internal communication.
  • Asana [PH] - Work management for teams.
  • Noteplan [PH] - Calendar, notes, and tasks in Markdown on Apple devices.
  • Meistertask [PH] - Kanban task management.
  • Podio [PH] - Customizable work platform from Citrix.
  • Proofhub - Project management, discussions, and proofing in one place.
  • Projects by Zoho [PH] - Project management in the Zoho suite.
  • Gantt pro - Online Gantt-chart project planner.
  • RedBooth [PH] - Task and project collaboration.
  • Celoxis - Project management and resource planning for services firms.
  • MavenLink - Professional services automation. Now Kantata.
  • TeamDeck [PH] - Resource planning and leave management.
  • Hive [PH] - Project management with chat, notes, and proofing.
  • Wrike [PH] - Work management for larger teams.
  • Clickup - All-in-one project management and docs.
  • NutCache - Project management, time tracking, and invoicing.
  • Sunsama [PH] - Daily planner that pulls tasks from other tools.
  • Polydone - Lightweight project and task management.
  • Scope - Product management and scoping tool.
  • Zenkit [PH] - "A better Trello than Trello"
  • Blossom [PH] - Agile project management.
  • TaskWorld [PH] - Task management with workload views.
  • Hitask - Team task management.
  • Standuply [PH] - Async standups and polls inside Slack.
  • Zube [PH] - Issue tracking that syncs with GitHub.
  • Paymo - Project management, time tracking, and invoicing.
  • Avaza - Projects, timesheets, and invoicing for agencies.
  • Ryver - Team chat with task management.
  • Hiverhq [PH] - Shared inboxes and workflows on Gmail.
  • Craft - Product management and roadmapping.
  • Elapseit - Resource planning and project tracking.
  • bqe - Practice management for professional services.

Product Roadmaps

Todo lists

  • Any.do [PH] - To-do list and calendar.
  • Things [PH] - Award-winning task manager for Apple devices.

Team communication

  • Telegram [PH] - Fast messaging with large group and channel support. πŸ’™
  • Slack [PH] - The default team chat for startups.
  • Discord - Voice, video, and text for communities and teams.
  • Rocket.chat [PH] - Open-source team chat you can self-host.
  • Gitter [PH] - Chat for GitHub communities.
  • Chanty - Team chat with a built-in task list.
  • Element [PH] - Open-source team messenger built on Matrix. Formerly Riot.
  • Typetalk [PH] - Team chat from Nulab.
  • Flock [PH] - Team messenger with built-in apps.

Video calls, meetings and screen sharing

  • Zoom [PH] - Video meetings and webinars.
  • Google Meet - Video meetings from Google. Replaces Hangouts.
  • Jitsi - Open-source video conferencing.
  • Whereby - Browser-based video meetings. Formerly Appear.in.
  • Webex - Enterprise meetings and webinars.
  • Talky [PH] - Browser-based video calls with no account required.

Screen shots and video capture and sharing

Bug tracking

  • Jira - Issue tracking for software teams.
  • Usersnap [PH] - Visual feedback and bug reporting on web apps.
  • Marker - Visual bug reporting with annotated screenshots.
  • Bugherd [PH] - Visual feedback and issue tracking on websites.

Data, knowledge base, notes and documents

  • Obsidian - Local-first knowledge base with bidirectional links.
  • Notion [PH] - Docs, wikis, and lightweight databases in one workspace. πŸ’™
  • Coda [PH] - Docs that work like apps.
  • Airtable [PH] - Spreadsheet-database hybrid for ops and content.
  • Dropbox Paper [PH] - Collaborative docs inside Dropbox.
  • Gitbook [PH] - Product docs and knowledge bases for software teams.
  • Google Docs - Collaborative documents, sheets, and slides.
  • Bear [PH] - Markdown notes app for Apple devices.
  • MilaNote [PH] - Visual notes and boards for creative teams.
  • SimpleNote [PH] - Fast, cross-platform notes.
  • Tettra [PH] - Internal wiki for teams that live in Slack.
  • OneNote [PH] - Notebooks from Microsoft.

Email inbox

  • Superhuman - Fast email client for teams that live in inbox.
  • Spark [PH] - Team email client with shared drafts. πŸ’™
  • Polymail [PH] - Email client with tracking and templates.
  • Frontapp [PH] - Shared inbox for customer-facing teams.
  • FollowUp - Schedule follow-up reminders from your inbox.

Collective coding

Git

  • Gitlab [PH] - Git hosting, CI/CD, and DevOps platform.
  • GitHub - Git hosting, code review, CI, and the default home for open source. πŸ’™
  • Bitbucket - Git hosting with built-in CI from Atlassian.

Time tracking

Other collaboration tools

Build a chatbot

Domains and naming

Find a domain name

  • Namemesh [PH] - Domain-name ideas from keywords you already like. πŸ’™
  • Domainr [PH] - Fast domain-name search across many TLDs.

Naming

Other

Legal, accounting and invoicing

  • Stripe Atlas [PH] - Incorporate a US company and open a bank account remotely. πŸ’™
  • Freshbooks [PH] - Accounting and invoicing for freelancers.
  • Equity tool by Gust - Cap table and equity management for startups.
  • Waveapps - Free accounting and invoicing for small businesses.
  • Xero [PH] - Cloud accounting for small businesses.
  • Hubdoc - Fetch and file bills and receipts into Xero.
  • Debitoor - Simple invoicing and accounting.
  • Clerky [PH] - Legal paperwork for fundraising and incorporation.
  • Bench [PH] - Bookkeeping service with a human team.
  • Pancake [PH] - Invoicing and proposals for freelancers.
  • ZipBooks [PH] - Accounting and invoicing.
  • Freeagent [PH] - Accounting for UK freelancers and small companies.

GDPR

Invoicing

Documents

Funding

Investors and Accelerators

Crowdfunding

  • Appsumo - Lifetime deals and software marketplace for founders.
  • Indiegogo - Crowdfunding for products and creative projects.
  • Kickstarter - Rewards-based crowdfunding.
  • PitchGround - Lifetime deals for SaaS and tools.
  • OpenCollective [PH] - Transparent funding for open-source and communities.
  • Patreon [PH] - Memberships and recurring support for creators.

Sales

  • Apollo - B2B contact data and sales engagement platform.
  • Instantly - Cold email outreach at scale.
  • Persist IQ [PH] - Sales engagement and sequencing.
  • Mailshake [PH] - Cold email outreach.
  • Outreach - Sales engagement platform.
  • InsideSales - Sales acceleration platform. Now Xant.
  • Gong [PH] - Revenue intelligence from calls and emails.
  • Dooly - Deal collaboration that syncs with Salesforce.
  • Guru - Company wiki that lives in the tools you already use.
  • Chorus - Conversation intelligence for sales calls. Now part of ZoomInfo.
  • Hunter [PH] - Find and verify professional email addresses.
  • Reply - Sales engagement and sequencing.

CRM

  • Attio - AI-native CRM that syncs with your email and calendar.
  • Close [PH] - CRM built for startups that do outbound.
  • Salesforce - The default enterprise CRM.
  • Streak [PH] - CRM inside Gmail.
  • Drip - Powerful e-commerce CRM.
  • Insightly - CRM for small and mid-size teams.
  • CRM by Freshworks - Sales CRM from Freshworks. Now Freshsales.
  • Copper - CRM built for Google Workspace.
  • Hubspot - CRM, marketing, and sales platform.
  • Salesseek - Simple CRM for growing teams.
  • CapsuleCRM [PH] - Simple CRM for small businesses.
  • AgileCRM - CRM with sales, marketing, and service in one suite.
  • Keap - CRM and automation for small businesses. Formerly Infusionsoft.
  • Gmelius [PH] - Shared inboxes and pipelines on Gmail.
  • Gist [PH] - CRM and live chat. Now part of Kit.
  • vCita [PH] - Client management for service businesses.
  • HelpShift [PH] - In-app customer service for mobile apps.
  • Nutshell - Simple CRM for small sales teams.

Communities

Learn

Books

Video

A/B testing

  • Optimizely [PH] - Experimentation and feature-flag platform.
  • VWO [PH] - A/B testing and conversion optimization.
  • Omniconvert - Conversion optimization and customer-data platform.
  • ABtasty - A/B testing and personalization.

Launch

Other

  • Cal.com - Open-source scheduling. Self-host or use the cloud.
  • Calendly [PH] - Booking pages that sync with your calendar. πŸ’™
  • YouCanBook - Booking pages that connect to your calendar.
  • Sheet2site [PH] - Turn a Google Sheet into a website.

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