What are the best free resources for startups?

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Products, tools, guides, etc... I'd love to hear what people consider the best free resources that they are using at their company!

Brody Clemmer · Accepted Answer

Atlas has improved my productivity day to day by a multiple of 6. The ability to search through docs, wikis, knowledge and asset managers, when and where I need them is incredible. It has increased efficiency meetings for our entire team. Highly recommended.

Justin Mitchell · Answer

Exclusive discounts and deals on top tools for startups, also it's free, so that's cool. Free site for free stuff.

Andreas Klinger · Answer

It's an awesome list. I had to add it here :)

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Great solution for teamwork in all phases of the project management journey. Whether you are conceptualizing (Mind-Map), actively working with a team (Kanban Board) or working with Deadlines (Calendar View), Zenkit is the go-to solution. Say goodbye to switching costs and training your new team members for many different tools. Start-ups tend to grow at a quick pace, especially in the beginning. Zenkit grows with you and your responsibilities and lets you scale your business efficiently.

George Hilton · Answer

Why bookmark when you can search your web personal web traffic? Using Atlas Recall is like searching your inbox instead of putting emails in folders - it just makes more sense, and saves oodles of time!

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

Some great email copy from companies like Slack, Trello, and Zendesk 🙌

Hiten Shah · Answer

It helps me easily schedule posts for social media to engage my audience.

Hiten Shah · Answer

It helps me communicate with team members more efficiently.

Hiten Shah · Answer

I keep this list updated regularly! Answers to this question will help me add to it =)

Karlchen Maximilian · Answer

Really good for testing. Website visitor recordings and heatmaps for free!

Nagarjun Palavalli · Answer

A lot of times, you're looking for tools to manage small parts of your startup. Airtable is perfect for such use cases! You can create your own "micro-application" to manage your project, sales, blog schedule or whatever else you want. No need for full-fledged software to manage each task. It's basically a supercharged Excel with a great UI.

Emilie Couturier · Answer

Makes team collaboration way easier

Siobhan O'Rorke · Answer

It's kind of like if Trello, Wunderlist, and a super powerful relational database had a baby. Great for project management and team collaboration. And it's free for individuals and small teams up to 5.

Jessica Treeman · Answer

We all know building a great product & company requires having a great team. Breezy makes it easy to attract and hire them.

What's even better? Breezy is the only hiring tool available with a completely free subscription tier.

PS: If you love Trello (who doesn't?) you're going to ❤️ Breezy: https://breezy.hr/

#startuplife

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Atlas has dramatically helped me locate ANYTHING whenever I need it!  I use it both on my Mac as well as my iPhone and have to say it is by far the most productive app I have on my device.  I literally interact with it 20-25 times daily!  Get Atlas NOW!

Nick Abouzeid · Answer

Free contracts for designers & developers. A must!

Vinay Patankar · Answer

Free plan with free startup process templates - https://www.process.st/startup-procedures/

Martin Meany · Answer

Great insights and doesn't cost a penny with low vols.

Marc Howard · Answer

Records everything, you can create easy user flow funnels and integrates and has awesome integrations like Slack and Intercom.

Oren Ellenbogen · Answer

The insights and inspiration you need to drive the culture your people deserve to have.

Darryl Pinto · Answer

Super fast and extremely simple... We use it for communicating and collaborating with the team and is quite helpful for managing tasks as well - Personal and Team.

There's video conferencing and screen sharing too. A must-have for real-time communication.

Unlimited integrations on the free plan. :)

Dan McGaw · Answer

All startups need to track how they are acquiring customers and UTMs are the best way to do this.

Siddharth Jaiswal · Answer

Discover competition, learn about cool new features and what the latest and hottest products look like.

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Thanks for getting listed here! Yes, no matter which stage your startup is at, Zenkit offers the most important tools you need to run your business smoothly.

Zack Miller · Answer

Great way to get started with outbound messaging to customers, influencers. Mailchimp offers a free account for up to 2k subs.

Ivan Burban · Answer

Stripo has Plugin for SaaS. You can use great Drag-n-Drop email template builder in your web product!

Anthony Da Mota · Answer

I can't recommend Airtable enough!

Csaba Kissi · Answer

Excellent tool if you want to get data about user experience.

Yuriy · Answer

Easy-to-use email builder with designed email templates to save time on routine.

Ola King · Answer

This is probably the only tool you will need to make beautiful graphics on social media without needing to use photoshop or even have any design skills. It's stupid simple to use, and  it also has an iOS app that is just as powerful. The free version is powerful enough for most use cases.

Isaac Montemayor · Answer

Extremely simple to start a list and collaborate with your team on tasks. Very pretty too.

Vladimir Sandera · Answer

I am cofounder of Smartlook. We have been working hard for last 15 months on Smartlook and try to build the best visitor recording tool for small and medium businesses.

Aashay Mody · Answer

Does everything you'd expect from a modern email & calendar app (open tracking, send later, undo send, snooze etc), plus the added benefits of intelligent insights (unsubscribe suggestions, question detection etc) and a Slack integration. All of this for FREE!

Tom Kinniburgh · Answer

de-clutter your email and streamline your productivity.

Theresa Brady · Answer

So easy to use and understand what website visitors are doing and how they engage with your content

Kuldeep Singh · Answer

Easy to create graphics for all the social media platforms.

Vikash Rungta · Answer

Great for managing any project or tasks

Katie Sullivan · Answer

A chat app to engage with your network on the go

Alessio Fancello · Answer

Great selection of free online tools to grow your business, by Ali Mese.

Chris Bailey · Answer

My favorite tool on my belt. I owe so much to this service.

Tim Lynch ☁ · Answer

Great tool for internal teams AND I have been using it to create private channels for client teams and it helps get our team closer to the customer.

Rafaella Theocharous · Answer

My best friend! fast and easy for using! You don't need to have any specific knowledge! Many free options with templates, icons etc. Thumbs up

Anthony Lee · Answer

Best modern email app out there and only getting better with every new release.  All the bells and whistles that you would expect but much, much more with its various integrations (Slack, Alexa) and in-app voice controls.

Matthew Rosendin · Answer

The best graphic design solution for startups without a graphic designer.

Pravil · Answer

Hands down, one of the best project management, collaboration tools. They have a great free tier which should be good for startups.

Loïc Souetre · Answer

Google Sheets is pretty convenient to build a concierge MVP when you integrate it with Squarespace forms! (that's how we did our first version)

Rolf LOUIS · Answer

I used to work with it, it is easy and effective

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Best lessions learned collection there is.

Ben Adamski · Answer

Showing someone on my team something specific, or how to execute a task by annotating a screenshot with CloudApp is actually faster and easier than explaining it to them.

George Hilton · Answer

The free tier is *very* feature rich, and I use it as a private version control of sorts for data science projects with stakeholders who use Jupyter Notebooks, but aren't familiar with Git commands.

Andrian Valeanu · Answer

Free photos.

Troy Christmas · Answer

This is my go-to tool for outbound social media because it is hands-down the easiest to use and offers great value.  Doesn't yet do automated recycling of posts, but had the flexibility to build an add-on for it - http://repeatpost.com

Troy Christmas · Answer

So flexible that I use it for everything actionable and even for some resource information.  So many add-ons and extensions for everything from burndowns, time estimates, etc.

Małgorzata Świerczak · Answer

Great tool to create internal wiki or even team pages with to-do lists. I am working on Nuclino in my NGO, never faced any issues!

Duane R. · Answer

Free high-quality photos that can be used in any number of ways (product shots, marketing materials, web design).

Ola Rybacka · Answer

Collaborate with your team easily and track time for every single project and task you're working on!

Brandon Lipman · Answer

Every startup I talk to goes crazy when I show them this. It's incredibly addicting.

Hanna Kline · Answer

This is one of the best products for startups! It's totally free and you can use any email template for free too.

Oscar · Answer

+1 for Hotjar. Great insights, and for low volume sites, it's completely free.

Gary Sieling · Answer

FindLectures.com has a collection of nearly 300 great talks from the business conferences for software companies.

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

If you consider prototyping to be the most valuable communication tool, then I highly recommend Atomic. It's the most versatile prototyping tool, and now has a powerful free version. I pay for it only because I want the beta features first. 🙂

Oomo 3D 5.1 Surround Sound Earphones · Answer

I use it. :)

Fabian Maume · Answer

The LinkedIn automation are useful to collect early feedbacks.

Corrine Cardinale · Answer

A customer analytics platform that will allow you to grow without restrictive data limits. Indicative's free plan offers up to 1 Billion user actions per month and complete access to the platform.

Lynette Kontny · Answer

Highrise helps you track leads and manage follow ups with no learning curve. There's a free plan for up to 2 users and 250 contacts.

Atta ⚡️ · Answer

A great place to find early adopters.

Brian Sheridan · Answer

This is a great tool for any startup who need to design a quick mockup/ prototype as part of validating their ideas.

Payman Taei · Answer

Rather than creating hard to understand data,  visualize it into an engaging Chart/Infographics to improve your audience information retention.    You have about 20 different charts types and widgets to quickly create charts and reports.

Assaf Haski · Answer

A great source for creating prospects' lists.

Assaf Haski · Answer

Beautiful, free photos.

Georgi Cochev · Answer

Friendliest DB interface ever. That makes it easy to use even if you are a beginner in IT and Business management

Rebecca Pollard · Answer

This tool makes it easy to write content for your emails - and then all you have to do is paste it into your template. Saves time and its fun (kinda like Mad Libs).

David Adamu · Answer

If you're looking to create a Culture deck for your startup, you could get inspiration from this curated list.

Helen Larsen · Answer

Their app will help you to cover many pertinent areas that every startupper have to grapple with. It has some categories and it has 10 recommended resources that can help with the startup’s growing pains.

Timmu Tõke · Answer

Can't imagine my life without CloudApp anymore. Really useful for team collaboration.

Kasia Roth · Answer

From the project management tools I have tried this is by far my favourite. Everyone that I have recommended it to immediately becomes a huge fan. It's super intuitive, the design is really pretty, it gets the job done.

Wahyu Kristianto · Answer

Book & Manual, API Documentation, Knowledge Base (FAQ), also Version Control

Helen Larsen · Answer

There is a list of plenty tools for business.

Luke Wheatle · Answer

This products great because you can target your testers by age, gender, country, device, os version and much more for free.

Matthew Rosendin · Answer

CloudApp is awesome. I use it to grab screens about every day.

Khaled Nobani · Answer

Time tracker + Time Analyzer.

Dilip Patharachalam · Answer

A must have if you build mobile apps

Praneeth Sannareddy · Answer

Zala is a cross-platform Communication and Collaboration App for start-ups.

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It is a web based project management and collaboration software that helps you easily manage projects, schedule, discuss, work and communicate with your clients & team members.

Shivam Chopra · Answer

This is the best IDE in the world.

Lisa Dziuba · Answer

Crello is a Canva competitor, but it has really a lot of built-in templates.

Kishore Bhargava · Answer

I have a soft spot for Trello, cause that is where this began, but I must say Zenkit is jumping ahead in leaps and bounds. Love the app! Great for all kinds of teams and yes very useful for a startup.

Eric Bouchet · Answer

I really like the fact that you can view your data in whichever way you or your teammates prefer: kanban, list, table, and even mindmap. And for each view, you can sort and filter by various fields. Kanban is not limited to todo/doing/done. You can use other fields to define your columns.
Projects can be linked, with cards relating to each other. This can include numerical values that can be summed up and displayed in summary tables.

Sameer Sontakey · Answer

This is a personal favorite of mine. A great resource for inspiration for startups building web/mobile products.

Tkachenko Arthur ~UA~ · Answer

Fast way to build your community or gain a feedback

Chris DCosta · Answer

Our team uses Zala to manage and track all our projects as well as for instant messaging.

Lisa Dziuba · Answer

Lovely tool for chatting with users

Michael Davidson · Answer

Get money. Get paid.

Manfred Ruf · Answer

perfect :-)

Allan Caeg · Answer

Here's an ultimate list of free stuff... from graphics to audio

Gaby Izarra · Answer

Get 6 free design assets every week, including fonts, graphics, templates, photos, add-ons and themes.

Crystal Chen · Answer

Super easy to capture your innovative ideas, and turn them into step-by-step to-dos.

Pavel Naydenov · Answer

FLOW-E is amazing. It turns your outlook or gmail inbox into a visual task board. You can track your emails, create subtasks and so on. You can also use it as a simple task board in order to track your work. Nice. Free for single users.

Sameer Sontakey · Answer

Amazing product. You can do so much with the free version, most might not even need to pay, ever.

Ramon · Answer

Complete collaboration tool with awesome UI

Rosie Cooper · Answer

The Expressly Network is a customer referral network that allows online businesses to advertise each other through reciprocal marketing campaigns. Their digital marketing company is revolutionising the way in which businesses acquire new customers without crazy costs.

Praneeth Babu · Answer

YourFirstInvestor has a curated list of equity free funding options available around the world along with the interviews of entrepreneurs who have attended these equity free funding programs to help your startup grow and succeed.

Ugur Kaner · Answer

Simple and beautiful invoice generator, integrated w/ Stripe (Credit Card, ACH, Bitcoin) and Paypal

Ender Bonnet · Answer

Todas las utilidades de la herramienta de escritorio pero en la web y con un sistema de colaboración en tiempo real muy pulido.

Ender Bonnet · Answer

Adicional a todos los beneficios corporativos que tiene es una excelente herramienta para generar comunidad por la diferentes dinámicas que se le pueden incorporar

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Buffer is a no-brainer. One of the finest social media post scheduling that I have ever used. Their free tier is very generous. Awesome plan makes it better though.

Tkachenko Arthur ~UA~ · Answer

Because it's awesome, you know

Sachin Baheti · Answer

Slack is a great tool to increase team efficiency and getting updates from team members.
Although, I recommend a great slack application called 'Just In Time' which helps in measuring team productivity and time.
https://justintime.tripin.co.in/
Check it out.

Sachin Baheti · Answer

Slack is a great tool to increase team efficiency and getting updates from team members.
Although, I recommend a great slack application called 'Just In Time' which helps in measuring team productivity and time.
https://justintime.tripin.co.in/
Check it out, let us know what can be improved. Suggestions appreciated.

Kishor Vaghani · Answer

Free tool to write a business plan and to forecasts business financials.

Lisa Dziuba · Answer

Awesome for analitics, we use free plan and it's enough for us now

Keyul · Answer

Quick Code is useful for engineers/ developers in the startups when they want to learn new programming languages. It saves time and money both for developers and startup by providing all free resources at one place.

Pragati Basu · Answer

It's a very efficient way to keep track of your brand online. If you're a startup especially, it's important that you use resources sparingly. Talkwalker Alerts is a free tool that helps you keep track of your brand across the internet as well as Twitter. You can use it in multiple ways - for outreach that helps with SEO, for influencer marketing so that you know what your favorite influencers are up to , for competitive intelligence and content marketing

Simon Benfeldt Jørgensen · Answer

To get noticed in the press with your startup.

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I think it's a competitor's information. On SocialPeta, you can find the latest competitive advertising information, trends and keywords to help you better study your competitors.

Bailan Xie · Answer

I'd like to advice you the best free resource for startups. Before starting my current business, I was also confused when looking for startup ideas everywhere just like you did. Fortunately, at that time, my cousin in foreign country told me a magical website named “GLOBAL NEW UNIQUE”, covering all the most hottest patented high-tech products like smart home appliances, high-tech materials, exotic tourism products, and other leading high-tech products in all walks of life worldwide. It will, definitely, set off a trend in every aspect of people's life in the future. I am now the exclusive agent of the Vision World for Two, a palm-sized portable projector. It’s HD huge Screen, built-in stereo-surround sound, intelligent voice control enable it to be applied anywhere like offices, houses, cars, fields, parties. You will be on the cutting edge of fashion with it anytime and anywhere. It took me six months to develop my business from myself only to a sales team with nearly 100 staffs. Recently, I have also applied for samples of several home appliance products from them, aiming to further expand my business scope. Oh, I almost forgot, they are now looking for distributors and exclusive agents around the world, you can go to their website http://www.uniquenice.com to take a look, it definitely won’t disappoint you.

Skylar Taylor · Answer

Great project management tool. It has really helped our company stay on the same page, and you can track progress/deadlines across departments.

Slinkky · Answer

Slinkky is great for keeping your team organized by consolidating all your important links in one place. It's free to connect and share links with friends with the individual plan and only $7 per month for Startups who want to set up teams.

Prateeka · Answer

Hands down the best expense management app out there.

Rich Peterson · Answer

See the free section - https://softwareforprojects.com/resource-tag/free/

Arpit C · Answer

Coz who doesn't love to automate manual tasks for free?

Arpit C · Answer

The easiest screen recording tool.

Arpit C · Answer

The easiest screen recording tool.

Arpit C · Answer

The easiest screen recording tool.

Prajakt Karanjkar · Answer

Agile CRM is a free cloud-based customer relationship management software that comes with full sales, marketing, and sales automation. It is built considering the requirements of small businesses. For startups, Agile CRM could be an awesome solution as it helps you take care of your customer data. It also helps your team to retrieve information as the need arises. Thus, reduces the use of information silos.

Agile CRM comes with some robust features such as project management, appointment scheduling, email marketing, workflow management, 360-degree contact view, etc. Find more information at https://agilecrm.com/features

Agile CRM is worth a try as it comes free for 10 users and allows you to manage 1000 companies and contacts. It also allows you to send 5000 emails. You can also purchase additional email pack if you want to send more emails.
Visit https://agilecrm.com for more information.

Olga Vakulenko · Answer

This helps to make seed pitch decks good-looking very fast and also offers a ready structure of an effective deck based on YC recommendations.

Olga Vakulenko · Answer

This helps to make seed pitch decks good-looking very fast and also offers a ready structure of an effective deck based on YC recommendations.

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Team messaging application simple and totally affordable first choice to pick for any kind of Startup business for attending their work routines.

Er. Neha Gaurav · Answer

I have been using ProProfs Survey Maker tool for market research surveys for my startup. A startup must analyze its target audience’s choice and preferences to survive in the competitive market. I am glad that I got a basic free plan that allowed us to create an unlimited number of surveys. It also has various survey options such as customer satisfaction surveys, demographic surveys, market research surveys, and many more. The best part was that we were able to analyze the survey results using advanced analytics and accordingly improve our offerings.

Kaloyan Dobrev · Answer

The best way to organize the passwords for the many other services is Drive Password. They store the encrypted passwords in Google Drive and my team have access from everywhere to them.

Eva Dupond · Answer

The free plan is sufficient for most early stage startup. It helps a lot to improve the UI

Fabian Maume · Answer

Really useful in early stage to understand how users use the product.

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Not realy free but good ressource

Vladimír Seman · Answer

We are a software development company and use Gleek for creating diagrams (we made it for our needs).

Mike Vannelli · Answer

Great commercials, ads and startup videos, mostly for business, products, brands and tech.

Brand Do · Answer

Help startup finds the perfect domain name for their businesses.

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Troop Messenger is very easy to use and simple to understand tool even for beginners.

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Epic lists.

Sunny Wu · Answer

You can miss Snack, a free video knowledge base for startups. Find quick video answers for your valuable business questions in a device that you carry with you nearly 100% of the day - What else do I need to say?

Simon · Answer

We use it in our NGO and it helped us to improve our efficiency

Skylar Taylor · Answer

This has been the best tool for our marketing team to create graphics without the expensive software or design skills! They have a ton of templates/layout designs to help get you started.

Aashay Mody · Answer

Great project/task management tool, with a free basic version

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Peter Schroeder · Answer

Easily design beautiful, professional graphics. Canva gives you all the tools you need to design.

Choose from hundreds of professionally designed layouts or create your own designs from scratch.

Becca An · Answer

Best one!!!!

Eliza Weitzel · Answer

Tolles Tool zur Organisation von Aufgaben - Sehr empfehlenswert!

Gaush Alam · Answer

https://www.patnalive.in/how-to-start-a-business-with-ola-cabs-and-earn-good-money/

Gaush Alam · Answer

https://www.patnalive.in/how-to-start-a-business-with-ola-cabs-and-earn-good-money/

Pavel Kukhnavets · Answer

Hygger.io is one of the popular platforms that propose great opportunities for managing startups. Here you'll find a helpful roadmap that can be shared with teammates, Kanban boards with Swimlanes and Work in Progress limits if you need to limit the number of current tasks. The platform also offers a friendly backlog priority chart for startup's daily issues prioritization and many other helpful features and tools.

Rafał Muszyński · Answer

Easy and fast meetings scheduling tool. It connects all your calendar accounts (including CalDAV compatible ones).

Ksenia Goron · Answer

This icons set is good-looking and enough for the startup if you need a design website or an app.

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Simple communication platform inside teams.

Ivan Burban · Answer

Flexible email template editor with 300+ free email templates + AMP email templates

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Taskade is a must-have tool for all startups. It makes task management easier and efficient.

Corrine Cardinale · Answer

Indicative is great for startups because their free plan has 1 billion user actions/events per month, unlimited user seats, unlimited projects, and 12 mos. data history. Can easily help optimize conversion, engagement, and retention. No code or SQL required, so anyone on your team can analyze data and your customer journey.

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Team messaging application simple and totally affordable first choice to pick for any kind of Startup business for attending their work routines.

Vinay Kevadiya · Answer

It helps to define your business models, quick and easy brainstorming with your team and its very collaborative when you and your team are on the same canvas.

Praveen Singh · Answer

Get one day of testing with 25 testers and 10 Devices for your Web/Mobile App

Charles LaCalle · Answer

Love this. I use it as my CRM. It's fantastic.

Shubham Mundra · Answer

A startup needs users, and this does exactly that.

Vlad Calus · Answer

Planable is social media content collaboration platform for agencies, freelancers and marketing team. We bring team members and social content on the same page for better, faster brand storytelling. With Planable you can create social media posts, preview exactly how it looks like, exchange feedback, get approval and schedule posts directly to social media.

Ryan Mickle · Answer

Save weeks, months, and thousands of dollars with reviews from thousands of VC and YC backed founders.

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List of free tools

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Great list of free eBooks, essays, inspirational videos and categorized articles about startups and entrepreneurship.

Jevin Sew · Answer

The perfect way to create & organize documents.

Waldo Broodryk · Answer

Great list of tools here for startups

Dimi Tarasowski · Answer

We spent 300 hours trying to understand why startups fail. Based on the insights we garnered from our research, we created The Startup Checklist. It helps you to build a successful startup and avoid basic mistakes that others did.

Omer Molad · Answer

Hard to go past one of the most frequently used free resources

Omer Molad · Answer

Free analytics for a long time

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This is a great site for startups and small businesses (and home users) to find tech support when they need it, at low cost. Everything from hardware support, software support, to programming or web needs.

Mohammed Rafy · Answer

This is the best thing if you want to collaborate with someone else to do your work.

Daniel Lopes · Answer

Heap is must have.

Graham Campbell · Answer

Super free resource on various tech startup lessons & best practices

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You get up to 50 free accounts (excluding groups and aliases). Have used Gmail (for business) and office 365 in the past. Zoho is equally good or slightly better than the other top service providers. Their app is top notch too.

Vladyslav Karpenko · Answer

Great combined company management system: CRM, communication, support, marketing etc.

Allan Bettarel · Answer

Really helpful if you want to automate things and save time

Geoffrey Weg · Answer

Discover 500+ blog posts written by top VCs, founders and operators. They're organized by over 350 topics. It's like a library for startup content.

Sascha Mombartz · Answer

Great tool and worksheet to analyze your existing or build out a new community

Jói Sigurdsson · Answer

Different from some of the others in that this site has an opinion on what the best tools are, and only lists a few tools in each category. Great email newsletter too!

Yusuf Ali · Answer

Extremely easy to use, it is like Jira for a phone.

Yusuf Ali · Answer

This is awesome.

Umut Muhaddisoglu · Answer

For a startup, every visitor counts. Also, you never know when you'll get listed on Product Hunt :) and definitely won't want to get caught with a downtime while many users are trying to reach your website.

Uptime Robot can monitor 50 websites (or web pages) every 5 minutes, totally free. And, notifies you via e-mail, Slack, HipChat, push and more once a downtime happens.

Aaron Green · Answer

One thing i've found invaluable is Roadmap, great for client facing roadmap and for collecting feedback from clients. Also plays nicely with intercom. (another great tool)

Guillermo Padilla · Answer

Easy and feature-rich email editor for your company communications, but also a free email builder to add on your application as a configurable plugin

Sachin Agarwal · Answer

Obviously, I'm biased, but Braid's the easiest way to keep a small team aligned.  Slack coming soon, too!

Jói Sigurdsson · Answer

CrankWheel is super easy to use for screen sharing, product demos and simple web conferences, and has a free plan for indivuals.

Ed Fernandez · Answer

Free version has almost all functionality only limited to 16Mb datasets, great for rapid prototyping of machine learning apps

Ervin Kalemi · Answer

For Facebook is the best scheduling tool out there!

Bulk Scheduling (CSV file, RSS feed, multi-file upload), AutoScheduling, Automatically Watermarking Photos & Videos etc

Sarthak Moghe · Answer

Get Worm helps startups get their early adopters

Loïc Souetre · Answer

Definitely the best communication tool for collaboration! 
+ Could even use it as a personal to-do list management tool. Easy to organize through channels

Miranda Wang · Answer

There are lots of google products for free, and it is really useful to us.

Bismayy Mohapatra · Answer

Great tool for small teams and my team is getting organized day by day.

Lukáš Dadej · Answer

I was looking for solution like this for years! Really simple way, how to see what people do on your website which help you reveal mistakes. I recommended it to all website owners :)

Lili Ivany · Answer

Such a user friendly web analytics tool! Has helped me a lot to improve the UX of my site!

Ali Khalil · Answer

Great Pick! Evernote helps you share meetings minutes easily. If you create the right templates.

Tom Marino · Answer

One of the most dynamic apps for use in near any business.

Ben Novak · Answer

Instant user feedback and viral loops with a single click

Troy Christmas · Answer

For a bootstrapper, there are enumerable reasons to jump on the free or nearly free G Suite Bandwagon.   New integrations across G Suite like Data Studio, Slides, etc. make this a no-brainer to quickly add tools that talk to each other, have single sign on are broadly understood by collaborators of all types.

Cory Brown · Answer

Been a great help for our non-profit startup.

Nick Dessens · Answer

Great service and free of charge!

Paul Gordon · Answer

This free service lists hundreds of places to list a new startup or business online and helps you get listed on each. It also is a very powerful tool to research different services and determine which are best to concentrate on first.  Always updated with the latest services.

TekkShare · Answer

Get free tech advice from these sharing economy tech experts. Since it is a competitive sharing economy, if you decide to go ahead with the Tech advice that they provide for your startup business (ie. What infrastructure and servers do I need to run my startup successfully?), it is a competitive website, so you will get a great price from these tech experts. But, talk is cheap, and advice is free! You can even swap and find tech products that are being given away for free. So send these techs some messages instead of paying high priced consulting fees, only available to well established businesses, and the spirit of the site is to share that info.

Sweeney · Answer

What gets measured gets managed.  Make tracking effortlessly with this UTM builder and read the data rewards for years to come.

Ricardo J. Zulueta Jr. · Answer

It's a great scheduling tool with one or a group of people.

Liza Dixon · Answer

Meta, but it's the first thing that came to my mind. 🙇🏻‍♀️💯

Jason Gray · Answer

Unlimited tasks, projects, and conversations and up to 15 team members for free. 
Simple and useful tool to drive accountability and bring clarity to a team.

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Superior product for collaboration and tracking projects, activity, files, links, media and more.

Bobby Ghoshal · Answer

If you aren't prioritizing design early on, High Resolution is a great resource to show you why. If you are prioritizing design early on, it's a great resource to show you how.

Jordan Young · Answer

They have good resources for startups. They help startups make connections with other companies, and have blog posts and articles. You can also connect with other startups. They are better for hardware startups but can be applied to other. The site is completely free as well.

SynesthesiaDiscovery · Answer

It has almost everything covered for Wordpress. What I like about it the most are clear instructions and robust option analysis.

Tigran Hakobyan · Answer

Extremely useful for mobile app makers. You can instantly see how people use your app, what they do inside your app, where users tap and how they navigate. SDK integration requires just one line of code and takes just 2 minutes to implement.

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Anyone in a startup knows having a great team to back you up is critical.  Breezy helps you find & hire them.

Breezy HR is the only recruiting product with a $0 free tier; perfect for startups.

Leo Bassam · Answer

Plutio brings all the tools you need to one place! Imagine Trello + Slack + Xero + Asana in one initiative platform.

Carène · Answer

A year ago we listed our favorite hacks by category. Some are free and others are worth paying for, enjoy!

Michal Rutrich · Answer

netroStation is a visual bookmark manager (web app). Save and organize hundreds of links for different projects, resources and personal use. Boost your productivity and be just a click away from websites you most often visit.

You can try live demo here: https://www.netrostation.com/#/public/Welcome%20Home to see if you like it.

PH page: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/netrostation

Rafaella Theocharous · Answer

Fully recommended!! its an online step-by-step startup launch framework. They are offering FREE 7 day trial period and then you can have extension for 21 days, which is really good!

Rafaella Theocharous · Answer

Great tool to develop your ideas! They take care for everything, like presentation decks, interview templates, landing pages etc. I try it for free!

Rafaella Theocharous · Answer

Email marketing tool that you can connect your store, you can create targeted and ad campaigns. Also has easy drag and drop design and many email templates! Thumbs up!

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You can send unlimited web push notifications for unlimited subscribers without any cost

Georgi Cochev · Answer

Free, a lot of features with very different purpose

Georgi Cochev · Answer

best organizing feature

Georgi Cochev · Answer

easy to use, a lot of features, nice look and feel

Georgi Cochev · Answer

I am serious :)

Rich Clominson · Answer

Check it out! You will learn from failed startup owners mistakes.

Sam Dickie · Answer

Over 200+ personally tested free tools and resources for your startup! the ultimate free toolkit

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Imagine Slack+Dropbox+Asana+Trello+Salesforce in one and totally free. That's Bitrix24.

David Adamu · Answer

I find Dropbox Paper very efficient, lightweight and an 'easy' replacement for Google Docs.

Daniel Wilkinson · Answer

Check it and i believe you're going to love it!