85 startup tools to turn your idea into reality

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A successful startup consists of three essential components: a killer idea, a desire to get things done, and the right tools. Unfortunately, we cannot help you with the first two, but please recommend useful resources.

Communication

1.. Messenger specially designed for group projects.

2.. Convenient service for video conferencing.

3.. Super fast messaging service. Used to work in the editorial office of Lifehacker.

Design

4.. Drag-and-drop graphical editor. Need to make a cover for a website or social media? That way.

5.. Here you will find a professional logo for as little as five dollars.

6.. The easiest way to prototype your application.

7.. Store all the images for your design, quickly share them with colleagues and discuss business issues.

eight.. An online tool to optimize your images without sacrificing quality.

nine.. Create a harmonious color palette in one click.

ten.. Logo, social media styling and full branding at a reasonable price.

eleven.. A simple platform for editing images and preparing them for publishing on social networks. There are many templates to choose from with nice designs.

Email

12.. Make your email work more efficient: enable tracking, automate processes and plan.

13.. The incoming letter is not urgent enough to be answered right now? Add the extension to Gmail, set it up, and in an hour you will receive a reminder about this letter.

fourteen.. Everything to make a cool newsletter: from design to clear analytics and testing.

15.. The easiest way to make a newsletter. You select the materials, Revue makes a great presentation.

16.. Assistant for organizing work in Gmail. Sortd organizes all your mail into easy-to-follow lists.

Finance

17.. Small Business Bookkeeping: Income and expense tracking, automatic billing, personal finance and more.

eighteen.. A tool for quickly drawing up an expense report.

19.. Digital storage for paper receipts, business cards, invoices. The tool will help you scan and organize all important papers, create expense reports, track profits.

Raising funds

twenty.. A platform for communication between investors, startups and job search professionals.

21.. Crowdfunding platform for creative projects around the world.

22. People who donated funds for the project become your investors and will make a profit if your business goes up the hill.

23. Another crowdfunding platform for projects of very different directions.

24.. The world's largest platform for networking between companies and investors.

Graphics

25. Search high quality stock photos all over the internet.

26. Lots of beautiful free photos.

27.. HD photos for your projects.

28. Icons for all occasions.

29.. Convenient search for icons for design projects. Lots of great free sets.

thirty.. Free vector graphics.

31.. Everything that can be useful in working on design: mockups, icons, fonts, scripts, templates.

32.. Essential design elements with high quality workmanship. Moreover, it is free for both commercial and personal use.

33.. A hand-picked collection of templates, layouts, and more.

34.. High definition video and graphics for your projects.

35.. Free professional photos.

Idea validation

36.. Create a custom grid to brainstorm with your team.

37.. Different types of business models as exemplified by well-known companies.

38.. Simple research and testing of your prototype: design, UI, code. There is a free trial period.

39.. Free testing of your application with real people: see how they use the application and what they say, and draw conclusions.

Marketing

40.. An easy-to-use service for registering for your event. A very beautiful event marketing tool.

41.. An intuitive service for creating forms and conducting surveys.

42.. A useful tool for doing A / B testing.

43.. Video hosting for business.

44. A calculator that will help you calculate how much money you should spend on advertising.

45.. Conveniently organized analytics on links and settings for publishing materials on different platforms.

Presentation

46.. Guy Kawazaki Presentation Instructions

47.. Create an interactive presentation using beautiful Swipe.to templates to convey your idea to everyone.

48.. Design the layout of your future presentation yourself.

49.. Make a nice presentation in a couple of minutes.

Control

50.. List of tasks and organization of all used services in one place.

51.. Working with documents, spreadsheets in a team, convenient communication and exchange of ideas.

52.. Store all tasks in one place.

53.. The easiest way to stay on top of what your peers are doing and get results.

54.. Arguably the best tool for organizing project tasks and tracking progress if you are working in a team.

Productivity

55. Microsoft Flow. Link all the apps you use for work together and save tons of time.

56. Can't work in silence and the music is distracting? Open up the Coffitivity and enjoy the background noise from the coffee shops.

57.. Full automation of all processes. Let the apps you use work for you.

58. Clipboard right on the screen of your Mac. It is convenient to look at what you have copied earlier (for example, many links), and, if necessary, quickly find information.

Useful sites

59.. No comments.:)

60. Useful materials, blogs of companies that share their experiences, lessons, tools and much more.

61.. Constantly updated collection of useful tools and services that will be useful to you in your work.

62.. Another site with useful tools, but here they are selected specifically for startups.

63.. Ratings of the best apps and services in different categories.

Social networks

64. Social media management and analytics.

65.. Convenient scheduling of publications on social networks.

66. Everything you wanted to know about your Instagram statistics.

67.. Complete Twitter analytics.

68.. Scheduling Instagram posts and account management.

69.. Customize the display of your Twitter feed and manage your accounts.

Cloud storage

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Time tracking

74. Time tracker with nothing superfluous. Helps you focus on one task and motivates you to stay focused on work.

75.. Allows you not only to track time spent on work, but also helps you schedule and reminds you to pay bills.

Website management

76.. Monitor your site statistics and analyze.

77. Clear and simple statistics for websites and mobile applications.

78.. Will help you add banner ads to your website.

79.. Anything to increase traffic on your website: analyze your heatmap, improve your mailing list, make people share your content more often on social networks.

80. The tool will help you study user behavior on your site.

81.. Very beautiful, and most importantly, a simple website builder.

82. Landing pages that you can customize completely at your own discretion. You can also track the results.

83.. The number one tool if you need to create a beautiful website without a programmer, layout designer and designer.

84. Quickly create web pages or presentations from designer templates and add interactivity.

85.. Design, prototyping and publishing of web pages. Everything in the browser, without a single line of code.