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.
- Website and Hosting
- AI
- Content and SEO
- Automation
- Backend
- Payments
- Documentation
- Mailing, Blogging and Newsletters
- CRM and Support
- Data Collection and Analytics
- Data Visualization
- User Feedback and Product Updates
- User Engagement
- User Attribution
- Media and Design
- Internal Team Management
- No-code
- Affiliates and Referrals
- Logging and Monitoring
- Misc.
- ★ Webflow - Website builder
- Memberstack - Memberships on Webflow
- Kickofflabs - Building waitlists and pre-launch websites
- Framer - Webflow alternative
- GoDaddy - Domains purchasing & management
- ★ Rows - AI-powered sheets alternative
- ★ 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
- 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
- Airtable - Cloud, visual & collaborative database
- Firebase - Backend as a service
- Supabase - Open-source Firebase alternative
- Stripe - Global payment provider
- Square - Worldwide payment provider
- Bolt - One click checkout
- Paymob - Egyptian payment provider
- Paytabs - Egyptian payment provider
- ★ 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
- ★ 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
- ★ Odoo - Open-source ERP
- HubSpot
- Zendek
- Intercom - Knowledge base, help center & support
- Crisp - Live chat & support
- Groove - Helpdesk
- ★ 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
- ★ Metabase
- ★ Flourish - Turn data into interactive stories
- Tableau
- Databox
- Klipfolio
- Baremetrics
- Geckoboard
- Google Looker
- ★ Feedback Lane - Feedback widget
- ★ Upvoty - Public roadmap & feature request
- ★ Headway - Public changelog with in-app widget
- Feedbear - User feedback
- Canny - User feedback
- LaunchNotes - Releases & updates
- Sleekplan - User feedback, roadmap & changelog
- Qualtrics - Building user surveys
- Mopinion - Conversational feedback
- Productlane - Roadmap
- ★ Braze
- Adjust
- Moengage
- Iterable
- OneSignal
- Customer
- InMoment - Ask timely "Rate the product" questions to your customers
- Optinmoster - Popup lead generation
- PopupSmart - Popup builder
- Landbot - Landing page chatbot
- Discourse - Open-source discussion software
- Twilio - Send SMS to any number worldwide
- Phaxio - Send faxes to any number worldwide
- ★ 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
- ★ 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
- Super - Websites using Notion
- Bubble - No-code web app builder
- Bravo Studio - No-code mobile app builder
- Idevaffiliate
- Impact
- Partnerstack
- Friendbuy - Referral & loyalty programs
- ★ Sentry - Error monitoring & logging
- Instabug - App crash analytics
- Crashlytics - App crash analytics
- UptimeRobot - Uptime monitoring service.
- Datadog - Cloud monitoring
- ★ 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