Startup Resources For Productivity

Starting a business can be daunting. But with the right startup resources and tools, you can create your own path to success. For entrepreneurs and business owners, the right resources can help to boost productivity and make the most of your efforts. For those looking to boost their productivity, there are a few key startup resources that can be especially useful.

Here’s a very long list of resources, not only for startup brands but for entrepreneurship and productivity in general. Hope this can help a few people out.

FREE WEBSITE

• HTML5 UP: Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates.
• Bootswatch: Free themes for Bootstrap.
• Templated: A collection of 845 free CSS & HTML5 site templates.
• WordPress.org | WordPress.com: Create your new website for free.
• Strikingly: Free, unlimited mobile optimized websites for strikingly domains.
• Layers: A WordPress site builder so simple. It’s free, forever.
• Bootstrap Zero: The largest open-source, free Bootstrap template collection.
• Landing Harbor: Promote your mobile app with a free landing page.

FREE 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 Edge 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.

FREE INVOICE

• Invoice to me: Free Invoice Generator.
• Free Invoice Generator: Alternative free invoice generator.
• Slimvoice: Insanely simple invoices.
• Wave: Free & easy accounting, invoicing and more.
• Invoice.to: Free invoice generator.

FREE LEGAL DOCS

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

FREE IDEA MANAGEMENT

• Experiment Board: Test your startup idea without wasting time or money.
• Germ.io: Get from idea to execution.
• Skitch: Your ideas become reality faster.

FREE BUSINESS / PROJECT NAME GENERATORS

• The Name App: Find an available name for your brilliant idea.
• Naminum: Discover a perfect company name.
• Short Domain Search: Find short, available single-word domain names.
• Wordoid: Pick a short and catchy name for your business.
• Hipster Business Name: Hipster business name generator.
• Impossibility: The best domain name generator ever.
• Lean Domain Search: Find a domain name for your website in seconds.
• Domainr: Fast, free, domain name search, short URLs.

FREE WRITING / BLOGGING

• Hemingway: Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
• Grammarly: Finds & corrects mistakes of your writing.
• 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.
• 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)

• Portent: Content idea generator.
• Google Trends: A new way of displaying trending searches.
• Buzzsumo: Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.
• Hubspot Blog Topic Generator: Custom blog ideas.
• Swayy: Discover the most engaging content. Free for 1 dashboard user.
• Others: Google+ What’s Hot | Twitter Trending | Quora | Reddit |
• Ruzzit: Find the most shared content on the web.

FREE SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS

• Open Site Explorer: A comprehensive tool for link analysis.
• Ahrefs: Site explorer & backlink checker.
• Quick Sprout: Complete analysis of your website.
• WordPress SEO by Yoast: Have a fully optimized WordPress site.
• SEO Site Checkup: SCheck your website’s SEO problems for free.
• Hubspot Marketing Grader: Grade your marketing.
• SimilarWeb: Analyze website statistics for any domain.
• Alexa Ranking: Analytical insights to analyze any site’s rank.
• SERPs Rank Checker: Free keyword rank & SERP checker.
• OpenLinkProfiler: The freshest backlinks, for free.
• Keywordtool.io: Free alternative to Google Keyword Planner.
• Google: Analytics | Keyword Planner | Webmaster Tools | Trends |
• Nibbler: Test any website.
• Browseo: How search engines see your website.
• Broken Links: Find broken links, redirects & more.
• Copyscape: Search for copies of your page on the web.
• Google Pagespeed Insights: Check the performance of your site.
• Pingdom: Test & the load time of a site.
• GTMetrics: Analyze your page’s speed performance.
• Moz Local: Check your local listings on Google, Bing, and others.
• XML Sitemaps: Sitemap generator that creates XML & HTML variants.
• Shopify E-commerce Report: Get your free Ecommerce report.
• W3C validator: Easy-to-use markup validation service.

FREE IMAGE OPTIMIZERS

• 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.
• Dunnnk: Beautiful mockups.
• InstaMockup: Create beautiful screenshots of your app or website.

FREE 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.

FREE 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.
• Mandrill: The fastest way to deliver email. Free 12K emails/month.
• Mailgun: The Email Service For Developers. Free 10K emails/month.
• Sendgrid: Delivers your transactional and marketing email. Free 12K emails/month.
• 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.

FREE GUIDES & 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.

FREE 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.
• 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.
• App Review Monitor:] App reviews delivered to Slack and your inbox.
• Presskit Generator:] Generate a Press Kit for your iOS App for free.
• Free Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.

FREE CUSTOMER SERVICE & SURVEYS

• Typeform: Free beautiful online survey & form builder.
• Tally: 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.
• 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.

COLOR PICKERS

• Material Palette: Generate & export your Material Design color palette.
• New Flat UI Color Picker: Best flat colors for UI design.
• Flat UI Colors: Beautiful flat colors.
• Coolors: Super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
• Skala Color: An extraordinary color picker for designers and developers.
• Material UI Colors: Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.
• Colorful Gradients: Gradients automatically created by a computer.
• Adaptive Backgrounds: Extract dominant colours from images.
• Brand Colors: Colors used by famous brands.
• Paletton: The color scheme designer.
• 0 to 255: A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
• Colour Lovers: Create & share colors, palettes, and patterns.
• Adobe Color CC: Color combinations from the Kuler community.
• Bootflat: Perfect colors for flat designs.
• Hex Colorrrs: Hex to RGB converter.
• Get UI Colors: Get awesome UI colors.
• Coleure: Smart color picker.
• Colllor: Color palette generator.
• Palette for Chrome: Creates a color palette from any image.
• PLTTS: Free color picker.

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.

FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

• Stock Up: Best free stock photo websites in one place.
• Pexels: Best free photos in one place.
• All The Free Stock: Free stock images, icons, and videos.
• Unsplash: Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.
• Splashbase: Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.
• Startup Stock Photos: Go. Make something.
• Jay Mantri: Free pics. do anything (CC0). Make magic.
• Moveast: This is a journey of a portuguese guy moving east.
• Travel Coffee Book: Sharing beautiful travel moments.
• Designers Pics: Free photographs for your personal & commercial use.
• Death to the Stock Photo: Free photos sent to you every month.
• Foodie’s Feed: Free food pictures in hi-res.
• Mazwai: Free creative commons HD video clips & footages.
• Jéshoots: New modern free photos.
• Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.