The Big List of Startup Tools

Below is our huge collection of links to resources, software, tools and other services to help build your business. They are all compiled, categorized and available here for any current or aspiring entrepreneurs who might find them useful.

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Create

Idea Generation

App vs. Website Quick tool to decide Free Curator Collect, Organize and Present Free Germ.io Get from idea to execution Free HowMuchToMakeAnApp Estimate it Free Milanote Creative Project Planning Free Mind Meister Online mind mapping Free Pitcherific Create & improve your pitch $9/mo Point Point to & discuss webpages Free Skitch iOS/Mac annotation app Free Stache Collect interesting webpages Free Xmind Mind mapping and brainstorming Free

Company Formation

CoFoundersLab Find a Co-founder Free Compensation Calculator Employee equity package calculator Free Founder2be Find a Co-founder Free Foundrs Co-founder equity calculator Free Gust Co-founder equity calculator Free

Legal

Docracy Open Source Legal Docs Free IncNow Form a Delaware LLC ~$200 FormSwift Online legal doc templates Free KISS Free example agreements Free LawTrades Hire great lawyers quickly ~$450+ LegalZoom Flat fee legal servies $varies Rocket Lawyer Affordable Legal Services $40/mo Shake Create, Sign & Send legal docs App Free Startup Documents Tons of standard legal documents ~$99+ TermsFeed Agreements for your website Free

Raising Capital

AngelList Directory for startups, investors and job seekers Free Captable Build and share your captable Free Crunchbase Discover innovative companies $29/mo Dealroom Investor SaaS platform ~$280/mo F6S Global Startup Community Free Foundersuite Startup SaaS app Free The Funded Community/Blog to discuss funding Free Gust Start, grow & fund your venture ~$415/mo Kickstarter Crowdfunding Platform ~5-10% SeedInvest Equity crowdfunding platform ~7.5% Shake Create, Sign & Send legal docs App Free

Naming

Domainr Quick Domain Name Search Free Hipster Name Hipster Business Names Free Impossibility Domain Name Generator Free Lean Domain Sort search by length Free Name App Check if your name is available Free NameChk Check your name availability across the internet Free Name Mesh Domain name checker & generator Free NameRobot Perfect naming machine $30 Naminum Type a word - generate names Free Rewind & Capture Step By Step Naming Guide Free Short Domain Short domain search Free Trademarkia Trademark search and registration ~$200 Wordoid Generate catchy made up words Free

Logo & Brand

99 Designs Logos, Web & Graphic Design $299 Brand Bucket Domain + logo package marketplace ~$1k Fiverr Cheap Graphics, Designs and more $5+ Hipster Logo Generator So Hip Free Logaster Free Small Logo Generator $20 Squarespace Logo Logo Generator Free Signature Maker Create a Handwritten Signature Free

Design Resources

Creative Market The world’s marketplace for design $5+ Dribbble Where designers get inspired and hired Free Feedbag Lightweight design collaboration tool. Free Freebbble Freebies from Dribbble Free Freebiesbug Free Web Design Resources Free Freepik Free vectors, photos and PSD Downloads $90/yr Fribbble Free PSDs from Dribbble Free Graphic Burger Tasty design resources made with care Free Invision Product design workflow platform $15/mo Marvel Wireframe, prototype, design platform $12/mo Pixel Buddha Free resources from the design industry Free Pixeden Free and premium design resources $6/mo Sketch digital design toolkit $99/yr TETHR Beautiful IOS design kit Free UI Cloud Largest UI design database in the world Free UI Space Thousand of great freebies Free UX Archive User Experience app archive Free Web3Canvas Premium templates and web resources Free Zeplin Connected space for product teams $19/mo

Fonts & Typography

Beautiful WebType The best typefaces from Google fonts Free Creative Market Over 24k fonts for commercial use ~$10+ DaFont Archive of freely downloadable fonts Free Etsy Vintage and Handwriting fonts $2+ FontFace Ninja Plugin to identify website fonts Free Font Squirrel 100% free commercial fonts Free Font Style Free fonts with links to commercial licenses Free Font to Width Script to fit text in web containers Free Google Fonts Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web Free GraphicRiver Fonts Thousands of fonts for as little as $3 ~$10+ TypeGenius Find a font combination for your design Free

Build

Domain and DNS

AWS Route 53 Amazon DNS services $ varies Cloudflare DNS, Web Security, Caching, Analytics & Perfomance $20/mo GoDaddy Domain Registrar & More $15/yr Google Domains Domain Registration w/ Privay included $12/yr Name Cheap Domain Name Registrar $9/yr

Website Development

Bitbucket Code Repo & Collaboration Free Bootstrap CSS Framework Free Brackets Open Source Code Editor Free CakePHP PHP code framework Free Code Canyon Code Scripts and Plugins ~$19+ Cody Library of HTML, CSS, JS nuggets Free Filezilla FTP/SFTP Client Free GitHub Code Repository and Examples Free jquery Rich Javascript library Free Layers Wordpress Site/Theme Builder Free nodejs Javascript runtime framework Free Putty Windows SSH and telnet client Free SearchCode Code snippet database Free Unsemantic Responsive CSS framework Free Wordpress Blog & CMS framework Free XAMPP Windows PHP dev environment Free

Website Templates & Themes

Bootswatch Free Bootstrap Themes Free Creative Market Website Theme marketplace $15+ HTML5 UP Responsive HTML5 Templates Free Templated 800+ Free Web Templates Free ThemeForest Template marketplace with over 40k themes ~$30+ Wordpress Free Wordpress Themes Free

Optimize your code

CSS Minifier Compress and Minify your CSS Free Compressor.io Compress JPEG, PNG, GIF or SVG Free Dan's Tools CSS, conversion and other coding tools Free Google Page Speed Page loading insights and analysis Free GTMetrix Analyze website speed $15/mo JS Compress JavaScript Compression Tool Free JS Fiddle Fiddle with your code live online Free Kraken Optimize images, Acclerate your website $5/mo Pingdom Free website speed test $12/mo Smush.it Image compressor Free TinyPNG Compress PNG and keep transparency Free

Web Hosting

Amazon Web Services Scalable Cloud Hosting ~$4/mo cPanel Easy to Use Hosting Platform $20/mo Digital Ocean Cloud Hosting Platform $5/mo Squarespace All-in-One Solution $12/mo Wordpress.com Free wordpress hosting Free

Payment Processing

Amazon Payments Payment plaform from Amazon 3% BrainTree Integrated payment plaform 3% Paypal Secure payment platform 3% Recurly Subscription management $varies Square Point of Sale / card swiping ~2.5% Stripe Complete payment platform 3% Transferwise Wire Transfer Service 0.6%

E-commerce

Celery Online preorder platform 5% Etsy Unique Crafty Marketplace 8% Gumroad Sell stuff with their widget $10/mo Shopify Secure shopping cart $29/mo

Analytics & Monitoring

Crazy Egg Website optimization tools $29/mo Databox Discover insights in real-time $49/mo Geckoboard Data Visualization Dashboards $25/mo Google Analytics Analytics for your website Free Heap Capture all web interactions without coding $299/mo Jetpack Analytics & Security Plugin $3.50/mo Mixpanel User behavior analytics $999/yr Segment Customer data infrastructure $120/mo Updown.io Cheap uptime monitoring $1+/mo Uptime Robot Monitor 50 websites for free $5/mo UXcam See your app through your users' eyes $199/mo

Launch

Beta List Discover tomorrow’s startups Free BuzzSumo Find Influencers $99/mo eReleases National press release distribution service $299+ PressFarm Find journalists to write about your startup $18/mo Product Hunt Curation of the best new products Free PR Web Boost your online awareness $99+ Startup Lister Submit your startup to 40+ websites $89

Grow

Marketing

Buffer Social Media Management $15/mo Digital Marketer Tools and Training for marketers $49/mo Exit Monitor Turn Visitors Into Paying Customers $39/mo Mailchimp Send 12k emails up to 2k people for free $10/mo Sumo Online Proven To Grow Your Customers $29/mo

Accounting & Invoicing

Free Invoice Generator Free Invoice Generator Free Freshbooks Cloud Accounting $15/mo Invoice.to Free Invoice Generator Free Invoice to me Free Invoice Generator Free Quickbooks Online Small Business Bookkeeping $20/mo QB Self-Employed Freelancer bookkeeping app $10/mo Slimvoice Simple invoicing and payments Free Wave Accounting & Invoicing App 3% Xero Accounting & Invoicing $9/mo

Calendar & Scheduling

Calendly Easy meeting scheduler $8/mo Free Busy Coordinate team meetings Free Schedule Once Integrated Scheduling Platform $7.50/mo Square Appointments Appointment booking and payments Free

Art of Emails Proven sales email templates Free BeeFree Build responsive email messages $5/mo Amazon SES Cloud-based email sending service $0.10/email Canned Emails Minimal site with prewritten emails Free Gmail Professional Gmail solution $5/mo Mandrill Transactional Email API $20/mo Mailgun Email Service For Developers $5/mo Mailtrack Free mail tracking for Gmail $5/mo Really Good Emails Best Email Designs in the Universe Free Mailgun Transaction Email Service $10/mo Thunderbird Free Email client software Free Yet Another Mail Merge Perfect mail merge tool for Gmail $2/mo

SEO and Website Analysis

ahrefs SEO & marketing solution $99/mo Alexa Ranking Web traffic comparison and info $79/mo Browseo View any web page like search engines see it Free Browser Shots View how your website looks across browsers Free Copyscape Search for copies of your page on the web Free Google Webmaster Track your site's search performance Free Keyword Tool SEO Keyword tool $48/mo Link Explorer Comprehensive link analysis tool Free MOZ Local Check your listings on Google, Bing, and other local search engines Free Nibbler Test any website $50/mo Open Link Profiler Analyze the links of any website Free SEO site checkup Check your website’s SEO problems $25/mo SERPs checker Free keyword rank & SERP checker $25/mo Similar Web Analyze website statistics for any domain Free W3C Validator HTML Markup Validation Service Free Website Grader Quick overall website analysis Free Yoast SEO Wordpress SEO plugin Free XML Sitemaps Sitemap generator Free

Collaboration & Productivity

Dropbox Sync up to 2GB of files free ~$8/mo Figma Collaborative interface design tool Free Google Drive Free storage with gmail Free Google Drive Online Productivity Tools $5/mo Microsoft Office Excel, Word etc. $8.25/mo Slack The best work flow tool $7/mo Trello Project Collaboration App $10/mo WeTransfer Transfer large files easily Free Yanado Task management inside Gmail Free

Stay Organized

Any.do To-Do List App $3/mo Evernote Note organization app $8/mo Notes Open source note taking app Free Pocket Bookmark and read it later Free Zirtual Virtual Assitant $400/mo

Helpdesk

Hesk Free PHP Helpdesk software Free HappyFox All-in-one help desk system $29/mo Spiceworks Free self-hosted Helpdesk software Free UseResponse All-in-one customer service platform $15/mo UserVoice User feedback platform $500/mo Zendesk Customer Service Platform $8/mo Zoho Desk Free for up to 3 agents $12/mo

Video & Teleconferencing

Appear.in Easy team video meetings Free Google Hangouts Online chat with photos and video Free GoToMeeting Online meetings without the hassle $14+/mo Skype Free online calling and messenging Free Wistia Video Hosting for Business $99/mo

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