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Awesome Startup Tools

This is a curated & opinionated collection of 3rd party tools for startups. The project aims to maintain a well-structured reference equally useful both for founders and developers.

★ stands for Editor's Choice.

Table of Contents

Website and Hosting

AI

  • ★ Rows - AI-powered sheets alternative

Content and SEO

  • ★ Netlify CMS - Open-source content management for your Git workflow
  • Metatags - Metatags previewer
  • Copy - AI copywriting
  • Ahrefs - Analyze a website's link profile, keyword rankings, and SEO health
  • Jasper - AI copywriting
  • Spyfu - Google keyword analyzer
  • Formspree - Contact forms
  • Strapi - Open-source headless CMS
  • Prismic - Open-source headless CMS
  • Contentful - Orchestrate content across brands

Automation

  • Zapier - Integrate web applications and automate workflows
  • Make - Tasks and workflows to different apps and systems, build and automate anything.
  • IFTTT - Alternative to Zapier with more focus on individuals
  • N8N - Open-source workflow automation

Backend

  • Airtable - Cloud, visual & collaborative database
  • Firebase - Backend as a service
  • Supabase - Open-source Firebase alternative

Payments

  • Stripe - Global payment provider
  • Square - Worldwide payment provider
  • Bolt - One click checkout
  • Paymob - Egyptian payment provider
  • Paytabs - Egyptian payment provider

Documentation

  • ★ Docusaurus - Open-source documentation websites
  • ★ Readme - API Documentation
  • ★ Swagger - API Documentation & versions
  • Gitbook - Technical documentation with public webpages
  • Scribe - Turn any process into a step-by-step guide
  • Code
  • Notion
  • Read the Docs - Technical documentation
  • UserGuiding - User onboarding & step by step instructions on how to use a product

Mailing, Blogging and Newsletters

  • ★ MailChimp- Transactional & marketing emails
  • ★ Mandrillapp - Mailchimp addon for transactional emails
  • ★ Postmark - Transactional & marketing emails
  • Mailjet- Alternative to MailChimp
  • Buttondown - Minimalist newsletter
  • Hashnode - Engineering blogging
  • Substack - Advanced subscription newsletters with payment, analytics, and design infrastructure
  • Revue - Similar to Substack
  • Klavyio - Marketing automation
  • ConvertKit - Email marketing
  • Mailerlite - Various digital marketing tools (automations, marketing & websites)
  • Parcel - Email Coding Platform

CRM and Support

Data Collection and Analytics

  • ★ Segment - Events & data collection
  • ★ Simple Analytics - Google analytics alternative
  • ★ Amplitude - Product analytics
  • ★ PostHog - Product analytics, conversion funnels & feature flags
  • ★ Cube - Headless BI for building data apps
  • Mixpanel - Product analytics
  • Google Analytics - Web analytics
  • Heap - User behavior
  • ChartMogul - SaaS subscription analytics platform
  • Smartlook - Behavior analytics
  • Hotjar - Website heatmaps & behavior analytics tools
  • Pirsch - Google analytics alternative with a focus on privacy
  • Ideals - Virtual data room
  • Airbyte - Open-source ETL
  • June - B2B Analytics with focus on companies

Data Visualization

User Feedback and Product Updates

User Engagement

User Attribution

Media and Design

  • ★ Dribbble - Design inspiration
  • ★ Figma - Design & brand assets
  • ★ Lottie - Optimized animation files
  • ★ Undraw - Open-source illustration
  • Rive - Animation design tool
  • Blush - Easily create and customize illustrations
  • Lumen5 - AI text to video
  • Talevideo - Animated mockup maker
  • Captions - For automated text video captions (for reels & shorts)
  • Tubebuddy - YouTube video optimization
  • Uppbeat - Royalty free music
  • Page flows - User flow design inspiration
  • Screely - Turn a Screenshot into a Browser Mockup
  • Testimonial - Early user testimonial videos
  • Figma UI Kit - A nice Figma UI kit

Internal Team Management

  • ★ Trakstar - Employee performance feedback software
  • Slack - Internal communication
  • Clickup - Product management & tracking tool
  • Linear - Another product management & tracking tool
  • Breezy - Advertise your open positions on 50+ top job sites, with a single click.
  • OysterHR - Hire & pay globally distributed teams
  • Calendly - Book calendar appointments
  • Miro - Visual collaboration tool
  • FigJam - Online white board
  • Loom - Async video messaging
  • Markup - Visual feedback & collaboration tool

No-code

Affiliates and Referrals

Logging and Monitoring

Misc.

  • ★ Wisestamp - Generate & manage professional email signatures
  • ★ Uploadcare - File uploading, processing & delivery
  • ★ Brightback - Customer retention automation software for SaaS and subscription businesses. Stop SaaS churn and retain customers
  • Navattic - Interactive product demos
  • ProductHunt - Share your new product with the world
  • Teachable - For managing online courses
  • Linktree - Social media reference landing page
  • Znaplink - Linktree alternative
  • Gumroad - One page product checkout
  • Sellfy - Sell merchandise or digital products
  • Bitly - URL Shortener