Optimization, Marketing and Design Tools
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Almost 20 years went into the development of this Ultimate Resource of Marketing and Design Tools and it will be kept updated several times a year. Many of the items on this list are free resources or have a free level. This is far from finished.
I count 480 links at the moment, I think I have another 400 or so. We used to weed out the working links that we didn't use. We no longer do that as we have found that each link has its own relevance in some way to someone. What may work for one client might not for another. If the link works, we do not remove it. Enjoy!
Amazon
Articles of Interest
- How To Launch In 2019 With No Giveaways
- Get On Page One With The Amazon Launch List
- Amazon Mobile Optimization, Are You? If Not, Your Compeitors Thank You
Resources
- FBA Profit Calculator: - Understand your fees and margins
- FBA Fee Calculator: - Determine which product size is applicable
- Amazon FBA Freight Rate Calculator
- AMZSeller Forums: - FBA Private Label Seller Forums
- SellerSEO: Amazon Seller Tools & Amazon SEO
- AMZ Suite
- AMZ Refund
- Refunds Manager
- AMZ Insight
- Refund Retriever
- CAPx
- AMZ Tracker
- Helium10: A powerful All-In-One set of seller tools for Amazon Sellers.
- MerchantWords
- Scientific Seller
- Rank Tracer
- Sonar
- MarketHustl
- Market Intelligence by Viral Launch
- Brightpearl
- RestockPro
- Skubana
- Neatoscan
- Sellbrite
- SellerActive
- Stitch Labs
- Trade Gecko
- Content26
- Geek Speak
- MobiReady
- Feedvisor
- Price Checker 2.0
- App Eagle
- Viral Launch
- FeedbackFive
- JungleScout
- Snag Shout
- eComSpy
- Vine
- Feedback Genius (Seller Labs)
- Efficient Era
- TaxJar
- Marksman Refurbishment Service Center
- Sellics
- SellerPhoto
- Brand Protection Agency
- ThornCrest
- The Private Label Lawyer
- Amazon Sellers Lawyer
Competitor Analysis **New 2/2020
Keep an eye on this area as I fill it with my best research links!
COMPETITOR ANALYSIS
- Open Directory Search: Search for open directories on a site to easily findinfo that shouldnt be public
- Google Dorks: Google Indexes everything. The right query commands will find it.
- Thruu Serp Analyzer: Analize the top 100 search results for a query to uncover what your competitors are doing and how.
Courses, Inspiration & Knowledge
LEARN
- Primer: No-nonsense, jargon-marketing lessons (by Google).
- KeepYourFriendsClose: A e-book about maximizing Customer Lifetime Value.
- Pricing Course: A 9 day course on charging what you’re worth.
- Email Course for Sponsorships: How to get sponsorship's for anything.
- Startup Sales Course: A course to help you become a better marketer.
- Build an online course: A course to help you build an online course.
- MailCharts: A email course to help you become a better marketer.
- FirstSiteGuide: The beginner’s guide to successful blogging.
- Coursera: online classes from 80+ top universities & organizations.
- Khan Academy: Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
- Skillshare: Unlock your creativity with online classes & projects.
- Codecademy: Learn to code interactively, for free.
- Audio Podcast: How to start a startup:
- StartUp Class: As Online Course
- Startup Notes: Startup School invites amazing founders to tell their story.
- The How: Learn from entrepreneurs.
- Launch This Year: Guide to help you launch your online business.
- Closed Club: Browse shut-down start-ups & learn why they closed down.
- Startup Talks: A curated collection of startup related videos.
- Rocketship.fm: Learn from successful entrepreneurs each week.
- reSRC.io: All programming learning resources.
- The Lean LaunchPad: How to Build a Startup.
- TalentBuddy: Learn to code.
- Mixergy: Learn from proven entrepreneurs.
- Hackdesign: Receive a design lesson in your inbox each week.
KNOWLEDGE SITES
- Search Engineland: News On Search Engines, SEO & SEM
- Search Engine Journal: - SEO, Search Marketing News and Tutorials
- Trendhunter: Trends, Trend Reports, Fashion Trends, Tech, Design
- Ppchero: PPC Advertising Strategy, Tips & News
- OfferVault: Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Programs | CPA Offers
- Perform Insider: PACEDM.com -"Pace" Lattin
- Seomoz. Forum: Moz Blog - SEO and Inbound Marketing Blog
- Search Engine Watch: Search Engine Watch
Email & Social Media
EMAIL MANAGEMENT
- SMTP2GO: - SMTP Service Pricing & Signup
- Mailjet : email marketing software
- Elastic Email: Elastic Email Dashboard
- Contact form 7: Famous WordPress plugin to collect email addresses.
- Mailchimp: Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.
- ManyContactsBar: 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. 12K emails/month.
- Mailgun: The Email Service For Developers. 10K emails/month.
- Sendgrid: Delivers your transaction and marketing email. 12K emails/month.
- Sendinblue: 9K emails/month.
- Mailtrack: The best email tracking solution.
- Canned Emails: A minimal site with prewritten emails.
- Email Spam Test: Email Spam Test
- Mail Testor: Newsletters spam test by mail-tester.com
- Email Verify: My-Addr Forum Email Checker
- DataValidation: Email Verification & Email List Cleaning Service
AUTO RESPONDERS
- Mailchimp: Marketing Platform for Small Businesses
- AWEBER: Email Marketing
- GeETRESPONSE: Marketing Software for Small Businesses
CUSTOMER SERVICE & SURVEYS
- Typeform: beautiful online survey & form builder.
- Tally: Create polls in no time.
- Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
- Batch: The first-ever 100% engagement platform for mobile apps.
- Helprace: Customer service tool. for up to 3 agents for small support teams.
- tawk.to : The 100% live chat application for your website!
- Techsmith Forum: The World's Best Screen Capture Software
- Lightshot (screenshot tool): Chrome Web Store
FORUMS
- Seochat Forum: Seochat Forum
- Fastlane Entrepreneur Forum: The Fastlane Entrepreneur Forum
- Wickedf Forum: Wicked Forum
- Reddit.com: The front page of the internet
- DigitalPoint Forum: Online Internet Marketing & Search Engine Optimization Forum
- WebmasterWorld: WebmasterWorld Forums Index
- DreamTeamMoney: Webmaster, HYIP, Forex, Networking, E-Currency, Money Making
- Cpaelites Forum: CPA Marketing Forum
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
- 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.
- Buffer Plan: Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+.
- Bitly: Create, share, and track shortened links.
- Filament: A 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.
- Presskit Generator: Generate a Press Kit for your iOS App for free.
- Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
DOMAIMN AND EMAIL TOOLS
- Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy
- Robots Generator: Generate Files Instantly
- MXToolbox: Domain Health Check - Online Domain Tools - Blacklist, Email, Website, DNS
- MXToolbox: MX Lookup Tool - Check your DNS MX Records online
- Email Blacklist Check: Email Blacklist Check - See if your server is blacklisted
- Bulk Lookup Tool: Bulk Lookup Tool - Bulk IP and Domain Lookup Tool
- Internet Archive: Digital Library of & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
- Email Server Test: Email Server Test - Online SMTP diagnostics tool
- Email Header Analyzer: Email Header Analyzer, RFC822 Parser
- DNS Lookup: DNS Lookup
- Online Email Extractor: Online Email Extractor; Discovery
VPN
- VPN.HT Anonymous Overseas VPN, Reliable & Plenty of local IP's
- Hola: Hola - VPN, Secure Browsing, Unrestricted Access
- Tunnelbear Forum: TunnelBear: Secure VPN Service
- Facebook Stats: Facebook Stats
- Press Room:
- Create Facebook Ads: Create Facebook Ads
- Guide to Facebook Ads: Guide to Facebook Ads
- Facebook Ads Cheat Sheet: The guide to all things Facebook ads.
- Ads Page: Ads Page
- Sponsored Stories: Sponsored Stories
- External Ad Policy guidelines: External Ad Policy guidelines
- Help Center for Ads: Help Center for Ads
PAGES
- Create a Page: Create a Page
- Pages Page: Pages Page
- Pages Best Practices: Pages Best Practices
- Vertical Directory of Pages: Vertical Directory of Pages
- FAQ for Facebook Pages: FAQ for Facebook Pages
- Usernames for Pages: Usernames for Pages
- Reporting IP Infringement on Pages: Reporting IP Infringement on Pages
- Facebook: Facebook
- Facebook Live: Facebook Live
- Facebook Studio: Facebook Studio
- Facebook Ads: Facebook Ads
- Facebook Pages: Facebook Pages
- Facebook Platform: Facebook Platform
- App on Facebook: App on Facebook
- Facebook Blueprint: Facebook Blueprint
- General Resources: General Resources
- Examples of Site Integrations: Examples of Site Integrations
- Facebook Platform Page: Facebook Platform Page
- Developer Blog: Developer Blog
- Facebook Games Directory: Facebook Games Directory
- API: API
- Open Graph: Open Graph
- Authentication: Authentication
- SDKs and Tools: SDKs and Tools
- Developer Roadmap: Developer Roadmap
POPULAR FACEBOOK BLOGS
- The Facebook Blog (official blog): The Facebook Blog (official blog)
- Inside Facebook: Inside Facebook
- All Facebook: All Facebook
LEGAL AND PERMISSIONS
- Facebook Brand Permissions: Facebook Brand Permissions
- Promotions Guidelines: Promotions Guidelines
- Statement of Rights & Responsibilities: Statement of Rights & Responsibilities
- Copyright Infringement: Copyright Infringement
Fonts & Icons
TYPOGRAPHY
- TypeGenius: Find the perfect font combo for your next project.
- Font Squirrel: 100% 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 Fonts: A huge selection of fonts.
- FontPark: The web’s largest archive of 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.
ICONS
- Fontello: Icon fonts generator.
- Flat Icon: A search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons.
- Material Design Icons: 750 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: flat icons and creative stuff.
- Ico Moon: 4000+ vector icons, icon generator.
- The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.
- Perfect Icons: A social icon creation tool.
- Icon Finder: icon section of the website.
- Round Icons: Doodle Set:
- Flat Set:
- Vector Line Set:
- Icon Sweets: 60 vector Photoshop icons.
- Make Appicon: Generate App Icons of ALL sizes with a click.
- App Icon Template: Royalty app icon creator for iOS, OS X and Android.
- SmartIcons: Download 1450 premium icons for free.
- Ego Icons: 100 vector icons with a clean look and feel.
- FlatIcons: flat icon customizer, royalty free.
- To(icon): icons.
Images & Graphics - Updated 3/2020
STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY
- Pixabay-FREE
- UnSplash-FREE
- Pexels-FREE
- Picography-FREE
- Stokpic - FREEMIUM
- Free Images - FREEMIUM
- RGBStock - FREE
- Splashbase - FREE
- Free to use images on Flickr - FREE
- Startup Stock Photos - FREE
- Subtle Patterns - FREE
- Stock Photos
- Stock Up
- All The Stock
- Jay Mantri
- Moveast
- Travel Coffee Book
- Designers Pics
- Death to the Stock Photo
- Foodie’s Feed
- Mazwai
- Jéshoots
- Super Famous
- Picography
- Magdeleine
- Snapographic
- Little Visuals
- Splitshire
- New Old Stock
- Picjumbo
- Life of Pix
- Gratisography
- Getrefe
- Cupcake
- The Pattern Library
- Public Domain Archive
- ISO Republic
- Stokpic
- Kaboompic
- Function
- MMT
- Paul Jarvis
- Lock & Stock Photos
- Raumrot
- Bucketlistly
- Digital Photos
- Morguefile
- Public Domain Pictures
- Stockvault
- ImageFree
- Rgbstock
- Dreamstime
- FreeImages
- FreeRangeImages
- FreePhotosBank
- StockSnap
- Unfinished Business
- Nature Stock
BRANDING & LOGO
- Logaster: Professional online logo maker & generator.
- Hipster Logo Generator: It’s Hip, It’s Current, It’s Stylish, It’s Hipster.
- Squarespace Logo: You can download low-res version for free.
- Signature Maker: A web based tool that creates your handwritten digital signature.
Tools
- Gimp - FREE
- Canva - FREEMIUM
- PicMonkey - FREEMIUM
- BeFunky - FREEMIUM
- PaintNET - FREE
- Meme Generator - FREE
- Pixlr - FREE
- Pablo - FREE
- Recite This - FREE
- Splitshire - FREEMIUM
- Life of Pix - FREE
- Picjumbo - FREEMIUM
- KaboomPics - FREE
- Jeshoots - FREE
How-To tutorials
- Canva tutorials
- Tuts+ Tutorials
- Adding vectors to your graphics
- Colour guidelines for web graphics
- Twitter image compression and Facebook image compression
- PicMonkey Tutorial
- Blog graphics tutorial
Video tutorials
- How to Create Custom Graphics for Your Blog
- How To Design Stunning Graphics That Are Fully Optimized For WordPress
- Social media design using Photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop Tutorial : The Basics for Beginners
- Shawn Barry, Creative
- tutvid
- Photoshop Tutorials
- Kimberly Ann Jimenez
- Image Editing Basics in GIMP
- How To Take Better Pictures With Your Smartphone (iPhone/Android) - 5 Tips
- Gimp video tutorial
- Photoshop Tutorials by PHLEARN
- How To Take & Edit Minimal Instagram Photos
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 Colors: 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.
IMAGE OPTIMIZERS
- 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.
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: product mockups & templates.
- Recite: Turn a quote into a visual masterpiece.
- Pablo: Design engaging images for your social media posts quickly.
- 2000+ Free Mockup Templates
- DIY Free Book Cover Templates
Vectors & icons
- Freeble - FREE
- Freepik - FREEMIUM
- Freebies Bug - FREE
- 365psd - FREE
- Vecteezy - FREEMIUM
- Free vectors section on 1001freedownloads - FREE
- Free Vectors - FREE
- Free vectors section on Vector Stock - FREEMIUM
- Free design section on Pixeden - FREEMIUM
- UISpace - FREE
Templates & helpers
- Kraken.io - FREE
- Compressor.io - FREE
- Hubspot's Infographic templates - FREE
- Hubspot's social media graphics templates - FREE
- Material Palette - FREE
- Flaticon - FREEMIUM
- Nimbus Screenshot and Screencast - FREE
- Placeit - FREEMIUM
- 12 Free Social Media Templates - FREE
Infographics
- Infogr.am - FREEMIUM
- Canva Infographics - FREEMIUM
- Easel.ly - FREE
- Vengage - FREEMIUM
- Visme - FREEMIUM
- Gliffy – FREE TRIAL
- Thinglink – FREE TRIAL
- Piktochart – FREE
Apps for smartphones
- Wordswag - FREE
- PicCollage - FREE
- Aviary - FREE
- Photoshop Express - FREE
- Line Camera - FREE
- Pixlr - FREE
Inspiration
Keywords
Keyword Manipulation/Listing Creation
- Merge Words: Combine words for SEO, PPC & link-building
- Delim: Online Comma Separator Tool
- 300 Multiple Choices: Phrase Expander
- Product Listing Creator: - HTML generator for descriptions
- Description Character Counter: - Maximize your available space
KEYWORD RESEARCH
- Scientific Seller: Amazon Keyword & Long-tail Tool
- Ubersuggest: Keyword & Long-tail Tool, Generate More Suggestions
- Answer The Public: Keyword Data Visualization & Long-tail Tool
- Soovle: Search & Long-tail Keyword Tool
- LSI Graph: Latent Semantic Indexing & Long-tail Keyword Tool
- SearchVolume.io: Free Google Keyword Planner Alternative
- StoryBase: Long-tail discovery tool plus phrase demographics
- Sonar: Amazon Keyword and Product Research Tool
- Word Tree: The Fast, Easy Way to Get New Customers
- MerchantWords: The Amazon Keyword Tool for Search Volume
- KParser: Research Tons of Amazon Keywords For SEO
- KeyWord Keg: Winning FBA Ideas [eBay, Etsy, Alibaba APIs]
- SellerSEO: Keyword Tool For Amazon
- SpyFu : Keyword Research & Tracking Tools
- SERPs Rank Checker: keyword rank & SERP checker.
- Keywordshitter
- Keyword Generator
- KWFinder
- Keyword Suggestion Tool
- Sellerapp free amazon keyword tool
- Amazon Keyword Discovery tool
- Amazon Keyword Tool
- Amazon Keyword Tool: Simple, Useful Keyword Research Tool For SEO
- Google Keyword Suggestion Tool
- Google Display Planner: Google Display Planner
- Google Keyword Planner: Google Keyword Planner
- Keywordtool.io: alternative to Google Keyword Planner.
Misc Tools
INVOICE
- Invoice to me: Invoice Generator.
- Invoice Generator: Alternative invoice generator.
- Slimvoice: Insanely simple invoices.
- Wave: & easy accounting, invoicing and more.
- Invoice.to: invoice generator.
LEGAL DOCS , TRADEMARKS
- Kiss: legal docs for startup founders and investor.
- Ocracy: An open collection of legal documents.
- Shake: Create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds. for personal use.
- UK Trademark Info and Search: Official forms and search portal for UK Trademarks
- USPTO: US Office of Patents and Trademarks
URL SHORTENERS
- Bitly. The power of the link: Bitly. The power of the link.
- tinyurl: TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a tiny URL
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 CTA's & power words.
- GrowthHackers: Unlocking growth. Together.
OUTSOURCING
- AirTasker: Hire local people to do work for you from office work to gardening
- UPWORK: Hire Freelancers & Get Freelance Jobs Online
- Freelancer Online Jobs: Freelance Jobs and Contests | Freelancer
- My New Pro: My New Pro
- Guru.com: Guru.com
- Truelancer : Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online
- iWriter: iWriter: Content & Article Writing Service
- Hirewriters: Hire Writers - Article Writing Service
- PeoplePerHour: Chrome Extension Offers - Online Services by Top Freelance Providers
- iNeedArticles.com: Easy, affordable content
- Fiverr: Freelance digital marketing experts & Online marketing services
- Easy Outsourrce: Online Jobs in the Philippines
- Odesk: Odesk- Hire Freelancers & Get Freelance Jobs Online
- Bestjobs Phillippines: Phillippines - Jobs and employment opportunities
- Online Forum: Hire the best Filipino employees and virtual assistants
Articles Of Interest
Resources
- Pinterest For Business
- Claim Your Website
- Claim Your Account On Etsy, Instagram Or Youtube
- Rich Pin Signup
- Rich Pin Validator
- Pinterest Widget Builder
- The Pinterest Categories list
- Learn About Analytics
- Commercial Terms Of Service
- Pin Etiquette Policy
- Keyword Finder: Pinterest Keyword Finder
- Pin4Ever: Firefox plugin for cleaning boards
- Pingroupie: A Pinterest Group Discovery Tool
- PinFollow: A follower management tool for Pinterest
- Buyable Pins For Shopify
- Pinoculars: Pinterest conversion and tracking app for shopify
- IOS App: Apple Pinterest App
- Landscape: Streamlined Image Resizing For Social Media
- Canva: A Simple Social Media Image Builder
- Stencil: A Simple Social Media Image Builder
- SEO Tool: Snapi Seo Tool
- Crello: Creating Social Media Posts With Templates
- Tailwind: An excellent scheduling tool with a lot of options
- Picktochart: An infograph building tool
- Woobox Pinterest Tab
Project Management & Collaboration
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.
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.
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.
USEFUL
- Foundrs: Co-founder equity calculator.
- Ad Spend Calculator: Should my startup pay to advertise?
- Entrepreneur.com: Pay-Per-Click ROI Calculator
- HowMuchToMakeAnApp: Calculate the cost of a mobile application.
- App vs. Website: Should you build an app or website?
- Pitcherific: Pitcherific helps you create, train, and improve your pitch.
- Startup Equity Calculator: Figure out how much equity to grant new hires in seconds.
- UI Names: Generate random names for use in designs and mockups.
- UI Faces: Find and generate sample avatars for user interfaces.
- Copy Paste Character: Click to copy.
- Window Resizer: See how it looks on various screen resolutions.
- Sonics: packs of UI sounds and sound effects delivered to your inbox every month.
INTEGRATION TOOLS
- Cisual Ping: Visualping: #1 Website change detection, monitoring and alerts
- IFTTT : IFTTT helps your apps and devices work together
- Zapier: Zapier | The easiest way to automate your work
- Wachete Forum: Wachete - Monitor web changes
- Page2Rss: Page2Rss
- Cyfe Cyfe: All-In-One Business Dashboard - Cyfe
- Google. Forum: Google Alerts - Monitor the Web for interesting new content
- Mobile Twitter – the mobile web version of Twitter (accessed from a browser on your smartphone, NOT the same as the mobile apps)
- Help @ Twitter – help, formerly https://support.twitter.com
- Status @ Twitter – https://status.twitterstat.us/ Twitter Site Status
- Twitter Directory – an alphabetic directory of public accounts
- Media @ Twitter – for brands’ and content - formerly https://studio.twitter.com
- Business @ Twitter – for businesses, Ads @ twitter
- Marketing @ Twitter – marketing
- About Twitter – blog & info about the company
- Blog @ Twitter – Twitter’s blog announces
- Tweetdeck – really useful for people who regularly use more than one account, eg. for work. You can log in to more than one account at once and there’s also the useful Teams feature where you can grant someone access to use a work account without giving them the password
- Twitter Search – Twitter search (basic) aka https://search.twitter.com/
- Twitter Search Advanced – Twitter search (advanced)
- Analytics @ Twitter – check the activity of your tweets
- Pic @ Twitter – pictures @ Twitter
- Developer @ Twitter – API & forums at Developer @ Twitter Community and Twitter Community and check out all these Community Badges dev people can get!
- https://t.co/ – Twitter’s in-house URL shortener
- Careers @ Twitter – work for Twitter!
Utilities
MAINTENANCE- BACKUP & SECURITY
- Copy.com: Copy.com
- Virus Total: VirusTotal
- Box: Login
- MEGA: MEGA
- Google Drive: Google Drive
- Dropbox: Login - Dropbox
- Clone Zone: Clone Zone
- Open Broadcaster Software: Open Broadcaster Software
- After the Deadline: After the Deadline - Chrome Web Store
- SetCronJob: Online CronJobs - Reliable Web Cron service
- Openall: Open multiple URLs/links at the same time
- Sandbox: Software for application isolation and secure Web browsing
- Download Always on Top - Keep Any Window Visible Always
- Feedly: Read more, know more.
- Ccleaner: CCleaner 5.50.6911
- Notepad++ : Current Version
- Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher
- 7Sticky Forum: interactive, powerful and cool Sticky Notes for your Desktop!
- VideoLAN: Official site - multimedia solutions for all OS!
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
- Facebook Ads: Facebook Audience Insights
- Google Trends Forum: Google Trends
- Google Marketing Platform: Analytics Tools & Solutions for Your Business
- Crazy Egg Website Optimization Software: Heatmaps & A/B Testing
- Google Website Optimizer: Google Website Optimizer Benefits of Experiments
- WolframAlpha: Computational Intelligence: Personal Analytics
- Twitter: Twitter Analytics
Writing & Content
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.
- The Best Designs: The best of web design.
- Niice: A search engine with taste.
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.
- 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.
- Summarizer: Summarize any text online in just a few seconds.
- Quilbot Rephrasing Tool: Enter any phrase and watch as the Quilbiot rephrases it using different words.
- Essay Typer: Enter your topic and receive an essay written about it. It is duplicate content,
FIND (TRENDING) CONTENT (IDEAS)
- Affposts: Affiliate Marketing News, Information and Blog Posts.
- Affbuzz: Affiliate Marketing Industry News and Blog Aggregator.
- Affdaily: Fully Customizable Affiliate Marketing News, Blogs & Tweets.
- Alltop: Popular News Sites for Any Topic.
- Buzzsumo: Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.
- Ruzzit: Find the most shared content on the web.
- Feedly: Compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize
- Swayy: Discover the most engaging content. for 1 dashboard user.
- Google Trends: A new way of displaying trending searches.
- Twitter Trending:
- Quora:
- Reddit:
- Hubspot Blog Topic Generator: Custom blog ideas.
- Portent: Content idea generator.
- Growth Hackers: Helping teams unlock their company’s full growth potential through a combination of software, services and community.
NEWSLETTERS
- Email1K: A 30 day course to double your email list.
- Design for Hackers: 12 weeks of design learning, right in your inbox.
- Startup Digest: Personalized newsletter for all things startup in your area.
- Mattermark Daily: Curated newsletter from investors & founders.
- ChargeWhatYou’reWorth: course on charging what you’re worth.
- Product Psychology: Lessons on User Behavior.
- UX Newsletter: Tales of researching, designing, and building.
- UX Design Weekly: Best user experience design links every week.
Website, Design & Code
DESIGN RESOURCES
- 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: and premium resources for professional community.
- Premium Pixels: Stuff for Creative Folk.
- Fribbble: PSD resources by Dribbblers curated by
- Freebiesbug: Latest PSDs & other resources for designers.
- 365 Psd: Download a psd every day.
- Dbf: Dribbble & Behance best design freebies.
- Marvel: resources from designers we love.
- UI Space: High quality hand-crafted Freebies for awesome people.
- Section of Pixeden: design resources.
- Section of Creative Market: Freebies coming out every Monday.
- Teehan+Lax: iOS 8 GUI PSD (iPhone 6).
- Teehan+Lax: iPad GUI PSD.
- Freepik: igraphic 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: graphical resources.
- Placeit Freebies: Freebies delivered right to your Dropbox.
DEVELOP / CODE THINGS
- Hive: First unlimited cloud service in the world.
- 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.
- Landscape: Landscape is an early warning system for your Python codebase.
- Swiftype: Add great search to any website. with limitations.
- Keen.io: Gather all the data you want & start getting the answers you need.
- Coveralls: Test coverage history and statistics.
- LingoHub: 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: SSL certificates for your startup.
- StartSSL: SSL certificates.
- Opbeat: The first ops platform for developers. for small teams.
- Pingdom: Website monitoring. for one website.
- Rollbar: Full-stack error monitoring for all apps in any language.
- Loggly: Simplify Log Management Forever. for one user.
- Devport: Get your developer portfolio.
- Getting Real: The smarter way to build web apps. A book by 37signals.
- Peek: Get a free, 5-minute video of someone using your site.
- Creator: Build better Ionic apps, faster.
- DevFreeCasts: A huge collection of screencasts for developers.
- Cody: A library of HTML, CSS, JS nuggets.
WEBSITE
- Layers: A WordPress site builder so simple. It’s free, forever.
- Bootstrap Zero: The largest open-source, Bootstrap template collection.
- Landing Harbor: Promote your mobile app with a landing page.
- HTML5 UP: Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates.
- Bootswatch: themes for Bootstrap.
- Templated: A collection of 845 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, Bootstrap template collection.
- Landing Harbor: Promote your mobile app with a landing page.
- WIX : Website Builder.
- Weebly: Drag and drop Website Builder.
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.
- OpenLinkProfiler: The freshest backlinks, for free.
- Google Analytics:
- 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 Ecommerce report.
- W3C validator: Easy-to-use markup validation service.
- Featured Snippet Tool: Find out exactly where you page needs to go to become the featured snippet
- Site Crawler: Identify broken links and redirects to be fixed
- Site Speed Test: Check the speed of your site for borth desktops, and mobile
- Scuri Site Check: Check your site for malware and blacklisting
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