Awesome list of FREE tools Startups should be using
This is a curated list about tools for everything from productivity to hosting to development tools to designing. These tools are all digital i.e. either app, online service, or downloadable software. Most of them are either free or have limited free option that is enough for startups. Feel free to suggest and contribute in this list.
Tech
Git Repos
- GitHub - https://github.com
- BitBucket - https://bitbucket.com
- GitLab - https://gitlab.com
Cloud App Hosting:
- Brainboard - https://www.brainboard.co
- Amazon AWS - https://aws.amazon.com
- Microsoft Azure - https://azure.microsoft.com
- Google Cloud - https://cloud.google.com
- Digital Ocean - https://digitalocean.com
- Linode - https://linode.com
- Vultr - https://vultr.com
- Heroku - https://www.heroku.com
- OpenShift by Red Hat https://www.openshift.com
- AppFog - https://console.appfog.com
- BlueHost - https://www.bluehost.com
- DreamHost - https://www.dreamhost.com
Static Site Hosting:
- GitHub pages - https://pages.github.com
- Google FireBase - https://firebase.google.com/products/hosting
- Surge - https://surge.sh
- Netlify - https://www.netlify.com
- Vercel - https://vercel.com
DNS, CDN, & SSL:
- CloudFlare - https://www.cloudflare.com/
- ClouDNS - https://cloudns.net/
- Let's Encrypt - https://letsencrypt.org/
Site Performance Tools:
- Pingdom http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt pingdom.com - Website monitor
- Google Page Insight https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
- Web Page Performance Test - http://www.webpagetest.org/
- GTMetrix http://gtmetrix.com/
Web Scraping Tools
- Import.io - https://www.import.io/
- Web Hose - https://webhose.io/scraping-tools
- Dexi.io - https://dexi.io/
- Parse Hub - https://www.parsehub.com/
- 80Legs - http://80legs.com/
- Scraping Hub - https://scrapinghub.com/
- Scrapy - https://scrapy.org/
- Scraper - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scraper/mbigbapnjcgaffohmbkdlecaccepngjd
- Web Scraper - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-scraper/jnhgnonknehpejjnehehllkliplmbmhn
- Scraping API: https://www.abstractapi.com/web-scraping-api
Development IDE/Editors:
- Sublime Text - https://www.sublimetext.com/
- Microsoft Visual Studio Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Microsoft Visual Studio (IDE) - https://www.visualstudio.com/
- Atom - https://atom.io/
- PHPStorm - https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
- WebStorm - https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/
- NetBeans PHP - http://netbeans.org/
- Eclipse - https://eclipse.org/
Development online platforms/IDEs:
- CodeAnywhere - https://codeanywhere.com
- Cloud9 - https://c9.io
- Koding - https://koding.com
- Humanitec - https://humanitec.com
Development Playgrounds
- JSFiddle - https://jsfiddle.net
- Plunker - https://plnkr.co/
- CodePen - http://codepen.io/
- JSBin - https://jsbin.com/
Resource Management Tools
- Respresso - https://respresso.io/
Utilities:
- FileZilla - https://filezilla-project.org/
- Laragon - https://laragon.org/
- XAMPP - https://www.apachefriends.org
- WinScp - https://winscp.net
- Putty - http://www.putty.org/
Automated Code Reviews, linting, coding conventions
- Code Climate - https://codeclimate.com
- JSLint - Usually available as plugin for IDEs/Editors
Testing
- Sauce Labs - https://saucelabs.com/
- Browser Stack - https://www.browserstack.com/
Email Service for Developers
- MailGun - http://www.mailgun.com , http://www.mailgun.com/google
- SendGrid - https://sendgrid.com
- MailChimp - https://mailchimp.com
- Mandrill - http://www.mandrill.com/
- AWS SES - https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
- Mail Trap (for testing only) - https://mailtrap.io/
- Email Validation API - https://www.abstractapi.com/email-verification-validation-api
Notification (Push, SMS etc) Service for Developers
- OneSignal - https://onesignal.com
- Pusher - https://pusher.com
- Twilio - https://www.twilio.com
Changelog
- Headway - https://headwayapp.co/
Business, Marketing, Sales, Finance
Idea Validation
- AreYouInterested - https://areyouinterested.co/
- SurveyWave - http://surveywave.xyz/
Content Management Systems (CMS):
- WordPress - https://www.wordpress.org
- Drupal - https://www.drupal.com
- Joomla - https://www.joomla.org
Ecommerce CMS:
- WooCommerce for WordPress - https://www.woocommerce.com
- Magento - https://www.magento.com
- OpenCart - https://www.opencart.com
- Prestashop - https://www.prestashop.com
- Shopify - https://www.shopify.com
Analytics:
- Google Analytics - https://analytics.google.com
- Heatly - https://www.heatlyanalytics.com
- New Relic https://newrelic.com/
- Inspectlet http://www.inspectlet.com/plans
- Zoom Analytics http://zoomanalytics.co/
- LiveSession - https://livesession.io/
Accounting & Finance
- Wave Apps - https://www.waveapps.com
CRM:
- HubSpot CRM - https://www.hubspot.com/products/crm
- Capsule CRM - https://capsulecrm.com
- Insightly - https://www.insightly.com
- Bitrix24 (CRM version) - https://www.bitrix24.com/tools/crm/
- ZohoCRM - https://www.zoho.com/crm/
- Google Contacts (can be used as lightweight CRM) - http://contacts.google.com
- Zoho Contact Manager (can be used as lightweight CRM) - https://www.zoho.com/contactmanager
Team Chat
- Slack - https://slack.com/
- Microsoft Teams - https://teams.microsoft.com/
- Mattermost - https://mattermost.com/
- Rocket.Chat - https://rocket.chat/
- Twist - https://twist.com/
Customer Support/Live Chat:
- Zendesk Chat (formerly Zopim) - https://www.zopim.com/
- Olark - https://www.olark.com/
- Facebook Messenger - https://web.facebook.com/business/products/messenger-for-business
- WhatsApp for Business - https://www.whatsapp.com/
Social Media
- Facebook - http://facebook.com
- Twitter - http://twitter.com
- LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com
- Instagram - http://instagram.com
- Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/
- YouTube - http://youtube.com
Sales & Marketing:
- HubSpot - https://www.hubspot.com/
- Website Grader by HubSpot http://grader.com
- Buffer App - https://buffer.com
- HootSuite - https://hootsuite.com
- TweetDeck - https://tweetdeck.twitter.com
- CrowdFire - https://www.crowdfireapp.com
- Ubersuggest - http://ubersuggest.org/
- Social Media - http://locowise.com/
- Visual Website Optimizer - https://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
- Tweriod - http://www.tweriod.com/
- My Site Auditor - http://mysiteauditor.com
- Free traffic increase - http://www.10khits.com/
- WooBox - http://woobox.com/
- Add Shoppers - http://addshoppers.com
- BuzzSumo - http://buzzsumo.com/
- Static html app - https://statichtmlapp.com/
- Hashtagify - http://hashtagify.me/
- Ritetag - http://ritetag.com/
- Tagboard - https://tagboard.com/
- Trendsmap - http://trendsmap.com/
- Shortstack - http://www.shortstack.com
- Post Planner - http://www.postplanner.com/
Productivity, Management, Organization
Note taking & Reading:
- Microsoft OneNote - https://www.onenote.com/
- Notion - https://www.notion.so/
- Google Keep - https://keep.google.com/
- Evernote - https://evernote.com/
- Pocket - https://getpocket.com
Project/Task Management:
- Jira - https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
- Asana - https://asana.com/
- Trello - https://trello.com/
- Airtable - https://airtable.com/
- Meister Task - https://meistertask.com
- LeanKit - https://www.leankit.com/
- Pivotal Tracker - https://www.pivotaltracker.com
- Wrike - https://www.wrike.com/
- Wunderlist - https://www.wunderlist.com/ (Replaced by Microsoft Todo)
- Microsoft Todo - https://todo.microsoft.com (Replacing Wunderlist)
- Todoist - https://todoist.com/
- Basecamp - https://basecamp.com/
- I Done This https://idonethis.com/
- Taskade - https://www.taskade.com/
- Nozbe - https://nozbe.com/
Attendance, Time Tracking and Management:
- Toggl - https://toggl.com/
- PrimaERP - https://primaerp.com
- ClockIt - https://clockit.io/
- Zoho People - https://www.zoho.com/people
- Bitrix24 HR System - https://www.bitrix24.com/uses/free-hr-system.php
- Pomodoro Technique - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Graphics, Design, and Media
Video making:
- Biteable - https://biteable.com
- Powtoon - https://www.powtoon.com
- Animoto - http://animoto.com/
- Openshot - https://www.openshot.org
Stock Photos/Illustrations:
- Pexels - https://www.pexels.com/
- Shopify Burst - https://burst.shopify.com/
- Unsplash - https://unsplash.com
- Place Image (Stock photos generator) - http://placeimg.com/
- Undraw - https://undraw.co/illustrations
- DrawKit - https://www.drawkit.io/
- Excalidraw - https://excalidraw.com/
- Icons8 - https://icons8.com/
Online Logo:
- Shopify Logo Maker - https://www.shopify.com/tools/logo-maker
- Logo Joy - https://logojoy.com
- Logaster - https://www.logaster.com/
- Cool Text - http://cooltext.com/
- Online Logo Maker 24 - http://onlinelogomaker24.com
- Free Logo Services - http://freelogoservices.com
- Graphic Springs - http://graphicsprings.com
- Design Mantic - http://designmantic.com
- Zillion Designs - http://zilliondesigns.com
- Logo Maker - http://logomaker.com
Designing & Editing:
- Pagemodo http://www.pagemodo.com
- Canva - https://www.canva.com
- Snappa - https://snappa.com
- Photoshop - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop.html
- Photoshop Express - http://www.photoshop.com/tools
- Pixlr - https://pixlr.com/
- Fotor - http://www.fotor.com/
- Create GIF - http://gifbrewery.com/
- Stamp creator - http://www.speedystamps.co.uk/
- Method Draw (SVG Editor) - http://editor.method.ac
- AConvert (Image to SVG Converter) - https://www.aconvert.com/image/png-to-svg/
- Image Compression and Optimization API - https://www.abstractapi.com/image-processing-optimization-api