What are your favorite tools to validate, build, and launch your startup?
- Nick Abouzeid36Words at Product Hunt ✌️ · WrittenFor when you inevitably build up an email list, here's a great directory of email copy from companies like Slack, Pinterest, and Trello.
- Adam ChipperfieldWeb Developer
Really helpful if you are stuck for simple email copy (like welcome emails). Some real quirky ones on there from great companies.
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Jessica TreemanHR, design, fashion with a dash of geek · WrittenGreat products & companies are built with great teams. Breezy makes it easy to attract and hire them. What's even better? You can use it for free. Breezy is the only hiring tool available with a completely free subscription tier. #startuplife PS: If you love Trello, you're going to fall deeply in love with Breezy. https://breezy.hr/ You'll ❤️ it. - Sidney OtteloheUI & product design, front-end developer · EditedAmazing tool if you need high-fi prototypes, marketing sites, mvp's! We used Webflow to build and launch our MVP - from scratch - in just three weeks and got voted #1 on PH last month (after Elon Musk's Boring Company). If you wanna read more about it: https://medium.com/spreadshare/h...
- Hari MaheshBuilding Fashion Experiences · WrittenQuick, cheap way to create a simple landing pages for your (multiple) startups. Only $20 a year for 10 sites.Sameer SontakeyCEO / Founder at Biostrap · WrittenThe best way to validate is building a landing page to collect emails. Maybe drive some traffic to your site and see how people convert.
- Brendan Hershdev/designer/domainer
Carrd is the most amazing web building platform I've seen to date- and trust me, I've tried everything. You start off with a blank page, or choose from expertly-designed templates, then you can build your own site with content LEGOs: drag text under an image, make a row of links across the top, or even add some of your own code.
When you discover control bars that let you break your site into pages, though, it's when everything changes: Carrd goes from letting you create business-card like pages to making full-blown websites for anything- home base for your app with dedicated support and contact pages, a sign-up form for an event that plugs names and comments into a Google sheet, ANYTHING (how do I make extra bold?)
Carrd is now my go-to tool for anything web-building related. I made a website for a friend and even made a few bucks off it. I'm also teaching an HTML class for my homeschool support group and there will be a whole lesson on Carrd!
I just want to say thanks to @ajlkn for my favorite website for websites, ever.
- David BerkowitzPrincipal, Serial Marketer
Very intuitive. I created the site serialmarketers.net in a few minutes, customizing the fonts pretty easily. My site looks great, and even better on mobile. The $20 custom domain upgrade is a pretty good deal.
- Rafael Isao DecontoDesigner · WrittenIt´s a great tool to prototype an validate your products
- Beth Hudson3Social Media Marketer, Recruitee · WrittenBeth Hudson made this productStartups are all about building a great team of people. Sure, you can have an innovative product, but do you have the right people to get it going? Recruitee is an ATS (Applicant Tracking System) that is affordable and allows for collaborative hiring. This way, you can find the minds that mesh best with your startup's ultimate goals and values.
Highly recommend
- Lindsay WindhamDesigner | Co-Founder, Distil Union · Written@jaredsilver if your startup is bringing a new hardgood to the market, Kickstarter is a great way to test market demand (validate) and *hopefully* launch. The whole exercise makes you finely tune your messaging, and your numbers.
- Nick Abouzeid36Words at Product Hunt ✌️ · WrittenOnce you have some emails, Brick By Brick offers some great ways to build a community of active, loyal users for your product (and inevitable Product Hunt launch!).
- Kunal Bhatia50Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp · WrittenIt isn't a startup without a Medium article! All kidding aside, Medium let's your biggest fans get the inside scoop and a better understanding of what you're trying to do with your startup. I highly recommend having a presence there, if not starting a publication to curate all the articles related to your company.
- Nathan BrownWeb & Mobile Growth Consultant
I've loved Medium for a long time - in fact I still hear from people (other authors wanting to link/interview me, prospective clients, etc.) every singe month directly from my very first Medium post.
Medium on mobile is...so-so. Much better than the original app, but the nature of a content network means there's a ton to fit on a small screen's UX.
My only real issue with the app is the writing interface (which should be Medium's strongest point if the website is any indication). It's reminiscent of the beloved Medium writing interface, but some of the features
- Larisa DeacUX/UI Designer
I've used many blog editors out there, and none has proven to be as easy and user friendly as Medium.
- Arshad ZaidiUSA Vape products Wholesale · WrittenA curated directory of resources & tools to help you build your Startup
- Samuel JennWedding Planner
I just found this here and loved the site. And surely recommend everyone who's starting a business, should check this list before using any paid tool.
- maker@GoodIdeaDogDLevelOPYour Magnitude componet$
Need to really explore but love that I found it
- Jim SemickFounder, ProductPlan · WrittenI've used the business model canvas (and canvases like it) for years as part of validating new products and businesses, including my current business. It's a great way to work through the high risk portions of a business model. It's easy to use (I like to print it out in large format and then use sticky notes for discussion).
- Shingayi Elle ManskeDesigner · WrittenKeeps you organized with all your startup tasks.
- Pedro ParedesFullstack developer
Usually my thoght process goes from general idea to multiple sub-ideas until I get to doable tasks. No other app that I've tried allows you to do this the way Workflowy does. They all let you group by tag, or notebooks or whatever but they are usually one level grups.
- Artem UshanovPM at Adeptik
Best outline and note-taking app for me.
Using WF for:
- projects list
- clients list
- "inbox", "tasks" and "later" lists in kinda GTDish style
- quick note taking during meetings and
Using WF everyday for two years, happy with it's simple efficiency. No automation at all, but you can invent any kind of workflow using tags and search. Lately company significantly improved their Android app, but it still need more.
- Ana SantosStarting from scratch · WrittenIt allows you to record a fair amount of interactions with your site for free. Super important to see where visitors are looking at, how do they navigate and click from page to page.
- Matt Pliszkadiscovering SaaS apps at picksaas.com
Great and simple tool for analytics of your website / online app, love that it's for free :)
- VictorEntrepreneur, Coder, Consultant
I used it for about a year on several apps we produced to monitor user actions. It's definitely a great tool !
- John MoodyCEO, LinkSense · WrittenIf your startup involves mobile apps, LinkSense provides great tools to make it simple to direct customers to download your app from the Apple App Store and Google Play.
