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Free Startup Resources

Inspired by /u/fluffhead1 on Reddit, who found the huge list from TNW. Many thanks for the start of such an awesome list.

A curated open list of free resources to help you jump start your startup today. Links are continuously being updated.

If you have another additional awesome free resource, please feel free to add it by forking this repo onto your github and submitting a PR. Thanks.

Website

Branding & Logo

  • Logaster: Professional online logo maker & generator.
  • Hipster Logo Generator: It’s Hip, It’s Current, It’s Stylish, It’s Hipster.
  • Squarespace Free Logo: You can download free low-res version for free.
  • Signature Maker: A free web based tool that creates your handwritten digital signature.
  • Branition: Unused logos marketplace, brand designers for hire and free branding tools.

Invoice

Legal Docs

  • Kiss: Free legal docs for startup founders and investor, created by 500 Startups.
  • Docracy: An open collection of free legal documents.
  • Shake: Create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds. Free for personal use.

Idea Management

  • CompanyCraft: Use AI to generate, analyze, research, and filter startup ideas. Free for most features.
  • Experiment Board: Test your startup idea without wasting time or money. Note: Requires a tweet to get it.
  • Skitch: Your ideas become reality faster.

Business / Project Name Generator

Writing / Blogging

  • Hemingway: Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
  • Grammarly: Finds & corrects mistakes of your writing.Medium: Everyone’s stories and ideas.
  • Medium: Everyone’s stories and ideas.
  • ZenPen: The minimal writing tool of web.
  • Liberio: Simple eBook creation and publishing right from Google Drive.
  • Editorial Calendar: See all your posts, drag & drop to manage your blog.
  • Story Wars: Writing stories together.
  • Headline Analyzer: Emotional marketing value headline analyzer.
  • WP Hide Post: Control the visibility of items on your blog.
  • Social Locker: Ask visitors “to pay” for your content with a tweet, etc.
  • Egg Timer: Set a time and bookmark it for repeated use.
  • BlankPage: Writing made simple.
  • Wattpad: The world’s largest community for readers and writers.
  • Known: A single site for the content you create.
  • Wattpad: The world’s largest community for readers and writers.
  • Dbook: Structured and collaborative writing for large documents.
  • CoSchedule: Blog post headline analyzer.
  • A5.gg: When you return your text will still be here.
  • Free Summarizer: Summarize any text online in just a few seconds.

Find (Trending) Content (Ideas)

SEO + Website Analyzer

Image Optimizers

  • Image Host Company: Host images on your Google Drive.
  • TinyJPG: | TinyPNG: Compress images.
  • Compressor.io: Optimize and compress your images online.
  • Kraken: Optimize your images & accelerate your websites.
  • ImageOptimizer: Resize, compress and optimize your image files.
  • ImageOptim: Makes images take up less disk space & load faster.
  • Smush.it: Image optimizer WordPress plugin.
  • Optimizeimages: Optimize images online with this free tool, compress & convert images in PNG, JPEG, SVG, AVIF, WebP and GIF formats, and even get picture HTML tags for correct implementation.

Image Editors

  • Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.
  • Pixlr: Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor.
  • Skitch: Get your point across with fewer words.
  • Easel.ly: Empowers anyone to create & share powerful visuals.
  • Social Image Resizer Tool: Create optimized images for social media.
  • Placeit: Free product mockups & templates.
  • Recite: Turn a quote into a visual masterpiece.
  • Meme Generator: The first online meme generator.
  • Pablo: Design engaging images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds.

Email Management

  • Contact form 7: Famous WordPress plugin to collect email addresses.
  • Mailchimp: Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.
  • ManyContactsBar: Free contact form sits on top of your website.
  • Hello Bar: Get more email subscribers.
  • Sumome List Builder: Collect email addresses with light box popover.
  • Scroll Triggered Box: Boost your conversion rates — WordPress only.
  • Sumome Scroll Box: Capture more email addresses, politely.
  • Mailgun: The Email Service For Developers. Free 10K emails/month.
  • Sendgrid: Delivers your transactional and marketing email. Free 12K emails/month (Now owned by Twilio)
  • Sendinblue: Free 9K emails/month.
  • Mailtrack: The best free email tracking solution.
  • Beefree: Free Email editor to build responsive design messages.
  • Canned Emails: A minimal site with prewritten emails.
  • Streak - Track if someone opened your emails. Especially useful if you're doing sales or outreach. Also adds a CRM to Gmail.
  • Really Good Emails - Superb for designed email inspiration. Welcome emails, sales emails, the whole works.
  • Gmass - Send mass emails in Gmail (up to 2000 emails/day). Gmail = way better deliverability than using an email marketing platform. Link it to a spreadsheet to personalize names and phrases for every contact.
  • Art of Emails - Tons of actually unique email templates for cold emails, outreach to influencers, sales follow ups, etc.

Guides and Courses

  • Primer: No-nonsense, jargon-free marketing lessons (by Google).
  • KeepYourFriendsClose: A free e-book about maximizing Customer Lifetime Value.
  • Pricing Course: A free 9-day course on charging what you’re worth.
  • Email Course for Sponsorships: How to get sponsorships for anything.
  • Startup Sales Course: A free course to help you become a better marketer.
  • Build an online course: A free course to help you build an online course.
  • MailCharts: A FREE email course to help you become a better marketer.
  • FirstSiteGuide: The beginner’s guide to successful blogging.

Social Media + Community Management

  • WriteRack: The best way to tweetstorm.
  • Spruce: Make Twitter ready images in seconds.
  • Click To Tweet: Get more shares on your content.
  • MyTweetLinks: Increases Twitter traffic.
  • Latergram** Easily plan & schedule your Instagram posts.WordPress Pin it Button for Images: Add a “Pin It” button.
  • SharedCount: Track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more.
  • How Many Shares Count: how many shares a URL has across most social networks, all in one place.
  • Justunfollow: Follow / unfollow people on Twitter & Instagram.
  • SocialRank: Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter.
  • Klout: Social media influence score on browser extension.
  • Ritetag: Instant hashtag analysis.
  • Social Analytics: Interactions for a URL on most social platforms.
  • Riffle: Full profile and info on any Twitter user.
  • Buffer Free Plan: Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+.
  • Bitly: Create, share, and track shortened links.Filament: A free beautiful and customizable sharing bar.
  • Addthis: Get more shares, follows and conversions.
  • Sumome Share: Auto-optimizes your share buttons for max traffic.
  • Digg Digg: Your all in one share buttons plugin.
  • Disqus: Build a community of active readers & commenters.

Customer Service & Surveys

  • Typeform: Free beautiful online survey & form builder.
  • TallySpace: Create polls in no time.
  • Free Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
  • Batch: The first-ever 100% free engagement platform for mobile apps. A fully fledged mobile engagement platform to execute CRM tactics over iOS, Android, and mobile websites.
  • Helprace: Customer service tool. Free for up to 3 agents for small support teams.

A/B Tests & Growth Hacking

  • Petit Hacks: Acquisition, retention, & revenue hacks used by companies.
  • Optimizely: One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.
  • Hello Bar: Tool for A/B testing different CTAs & power words.
  • GrowthHackers: Unlocking growth. Together.
  • Cello: User-led growth platform for B2B SaaS.

Design Resources

  • Sinwaver: Export perfect SVG sine waves.
  • Freebbble: High-quality design freebies from Dribbble.
  • Dribbble: Dribbble search results for “freebie”. An absolute freebie treasure.
  • Graphic Burger: Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel.
  • Pixel Buddha: Free and premium resources for professional community.
  • Premium Pixels: Free Stuff for Creative Folk.
  • Fribbble: Free PSD resources by Dribbblers curated by Gilbert Pellegrom.
  • Freebiesbug: Latest free PSDs & other resources for designers.
  • 365 Psd: Download a free psd every day.
  • Dbf: Dribbble & Behance best design freebies.
  • Marvel: Free resources from designers we love.
  • UI Space: High quality hand-crafted Freebies for awesome people.
  • Free Section of Pixeden: Free design resources.
  • Free Section of Creative Market: Freebies coming out every Monday.
  • Teehan+Lax: iOS 8 GUI PSD (iPhone 6).Teehan+Lax: iPad GUI PSD.
  • Freepik: iFree graphic resources for everyone.
  • Tech&All: PSD, Tech News, and other resources for free.
  • Tethr: The most beautiful IOS design KIT ever.
  • Web3Canvas: PSD Freebies, HTML Snippets, Inspirations & Tutorials.
  • SketchAppResources: Free graphical resources.
  • Placeit Freebies: Freebies delivered right to your Dropbox.

Color Pickers

INSPIRATION

  • MaterialUp: Daily material design inspiration.
  • FLTDSGN: Daily showcase of the best flat UI design websites and apps.
  • Site Inspire: Web design inspiration.
  • UI Cloud: The largest user interface design database in the world.
  • Moodboard: Build a beautiful moodboard and share the result.
  • Crayon: The most comprehensive collection of marketing designs.
  • Land-Book: Product landing pages gallery.
  • Ocean: A community of designers sharing feedback.
  • Dribbble: Show and tell for designers.
  • Behance: Showcase & discover creative work.
  • Pttrns: Mobile user interface patterns.
  • Flat UI Design: Useful Pinterest board.
  • Awwwards: The awards for design, creativity and innovation.
  • The Starter Kit: Curated resources for developers and designers.
  • One Page Love: Resource for one-page website inspiration.
  • UI Parade: User interface design tools and design inspiration.
  • The Best Designs: The best of web design.Agile Designers: Best resources for designers & developers.
  • Niice: A search engine with taste.

Stock Photography

Typography

  • TypeGenius: Find the perfect font combo for your next project.
  • Font Squirrel: 100% free commercial fonts.
  • FontFaceNinja: Browser extension to find the web fonts a site uses.
  • Google Fonts: Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.Beautiful Web Type: Best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.
  • DaFont: Archive of freely downloadable fonts.1001 Free Fonts: A huge selection of free fonts.
  • FontPark: The web’s largest archive of free fonts.
  • Font-to-width: Fit pieces of text snugly within their containers.
  • Adobe Fonts: The free, easy way to get started with web fonts.
  • Typekit: A limited collection of fonts to use on a website or in applications.

Icons

  • Fontello: Icon fonts generator.
  • Flat Icon: A search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons.
  • Material Design Icons: 750 Free open-source glyphs by Google
  • Font Awesome: The iconic font and CSS toolkit
  • Glyphsearch: Search for icons from other icon databases
  • MakeAppIcon: Generate App Icons of all sizes with a click
  • Endless Icons: Free flat icons and creative stuff.
  • Ico Moon: 4000_+ free vector icons, icon generator.
  • The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.
  • Perfect Icons: A social icon creation tool.
  • Material Design Icons: 750 _Free open-source glyphs by Google.
  • Icon Finder: Free icon section of the website.
  • Free Round Icons: Doodle Set: | Flat Set: | Vector Line Set
  • Icon Sweets: 60 free vector Photoshop icons.
  • MakeAppIcon: Generate App Icons of ALL sizes with a click.
  • Apply Pixels: Supercharge your design workflow with up-to-date UI Kits, Icon Templates and much more.
  • [Icons8s]: Free icons, photos, vectors, music, and tools.
  • Streamline Icons: Welcome to Streamline. The world's largest icon pack.
  • 3dicons: A collection of over 5000 3D icons and characters with 4k resolution, each icon delivered in 5 color palettes, front and perspective views
  • iconshock: 2 Million+ professional icons library. Over 400+ icon sets in more than 30 styles, including Flat, Material, iOS, Glyph, Colorful, Window 10, Revamped Office, 3D Realistic, Isometric, & more! Most of the icons are vector and pixel perfect conveniently grouped in sets by industries, and our customs designs are even better :)

Useful Tools

  • UI Names: Generate random names for use in designs and mockups.
  • UI Faces: Find and generate sample avatars for user interfaces.
  • UI Blurbs: Quick user bios for your mockups.
  • Copy Paste Character: Click to copy.
  • Window Resizer: See how it looks on various screen resolutions.
  • Tshirt designs: You can upload your own mockups files or choose one from our directory, and adap any design to the mockup builder to create realistic and ready to use mockups for your POD business.

Developer & Code Related

  • Abstract APIs: Suite of APIs for everyday use cases (email validation, VAT calculation, IP geolocation, and more)
  • Sentry: Open-source error tracking & monitoring
  • Argonaut: Deploy apps and infrastructure on your cloud in minutes. Support for custom and third-party app deployments on Kubernetes and Lambda environments. Free tier allows unlimited apps and deployments for 5 environments and 2 users.
  • GitHub: Build software better, together.
  • BitBucket: Git and Mercurial code management for teams.
  • Chisel: Chisel offers an unlimited number of fossil repositories.
  • Visual Studio: Comprehensive collection of developer tools and services.
  • Swiftype: Add great search to any website. Free with limitations.
  • Keen.io: Gather all the data you want & start getting the answers you need.
  • Coveralls: Test coverage history and statistics.
  • LingoHub: Free for Small Teams, Open Source usage and Educational projects.
  • Codacy: Continuous Static Analysis designed to complement your unit tests.
  • Searchcode: Search over 20 billion lines of code.
  • TinyCert: Free SSL certificates for your startup.
  • Opbeat: The first ops platform for developers. Free for small teams.
  • Pingdom: Website monitoring. Free for one website.
  • Rollbar: Full-stack error monitoring for all apps in any language.
  • Loggly: Simplify Log Management Forever. Free for one user.
  • Getting Real: The smarter way to build web apps. A free book by 37signals.
  • Cody: A free library of HTML, CSS, JS nuggets.

Background Sounds to Focus

  • Noisli: Background noise & color generator.
  • Noizio: Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.
  • Defonic: Combine the sounds of the world into a melody.
  • Designers.mx: Curated playlists by designers, for designers.
  • Coffitivity: Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work.
  • Octave: A free library of UI sounds, handmade for iOS.
  • Free Sound: Huge database of free audio snippets, samples, + recordings.
  • Sonics: Free packs of UI sounds and sound effects delivered to your inbox every month.
  • Deep Focus: Spotify’s famous playlist to focus.
  • The Ultimate Background Noise Generator: Free BG sounds from a coffee shop to music to tones designed to help you focus.

Avoid Distraction

  • Self Control: Mac: free application to help you avoid distracting websites.
  • Cold Turkey: Windows: temporarily block yourself off of distracting websites.

Organize & Collaborate

  • Trello: Keeps track of everything.
  • Evernote: The workspace for your life’s work.
  • Dropbox: Free space up to 2GB.
  • Yanado: Tasks management inside Gmail.
  • Wetransfer: Free transfer up to 2GB.
  • Drp.io: Free, fast, private and easy image and file hosting.
  • Pocket: View later, put it in Pocket.
  • Mailtoself: An iOS extension to mail notes to yourself from any app.
  • List.ly: Discover and create great lists.
  • Markticle: Mark your reading progress in articles for later.
  • Raindrop: Mac app for bookmarking and reading it later.
  • Flowdock: Free for teams of five and non-profits.
  • Typetalk: Share and discuss ideas with your team through instant messaging.
  • Slack: Free for unlimited users with few limited features.
  • FreeBusy: Eliminate coordination headaches when you need to schedule a meeting.
  • Miro: Your regular whiteboard, re-thought for the best online experience.
  • Any.do: Get things done with your team.
  • Asana: Teamwork without email.
  • GoToMeeting: Online meetings without the hassle.

Digital Nomads and Remote Working

Discover Tools & Startups

  • Product Hunt: Curation of the best new products, every day.
  • Angellist: Where the world meets startups.
  • Beta List: Discover and get early access to tomorrow’s startups.
  • StartupLi.st: Find. Follow. Recommend startups.
  • Startups List: Collections of the best startups in different places.
  • Erli Bird: Where great new products are born.

Build Together

  • Assembly: Co-create new ideas no matter where they are.
  • CoFoundersLab: Find a co-founder in any city, any industry.
  • Founder2be: Find a co-founder for your startup.

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Inspired by /u/fluffhead1 on Reddit. Many thanks for the start of such an awesome list.

www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/93e2m2/100_free_start_up_resources/

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