Startup Tools
70+ curated tools and resources to help you go from idea to launched product. Everything a solo developer or small team needs.
Recommended Stacks
Curated tool bundles for different founder types. Pick your path.
Solo Dev Stack
Everything a technical solo founder needs to validate, build, and ship.
Non-Tech Founder
Launch without writing code. From idea validation to live product.
Growth Stack
Scale your audience, content, and operations after launch.
Research & Validation
Google Trends
See what the world is searching for. Compare keyword popularity over time and across regions. Free forever.
Exploding Topics
Spot rapidly growing trends before they take off. Database of trending topics, products, and industries.
SimilarWeb
Competitive analysis and website traffic insights. See any website's traffic sources, audience, and engagement.
Ahrefs
SEO toolset for keyword research, backlink analysis, and competitor tracking. Industry standard for organic growth.
Typeform
Beautiful, conversational forms and surveys. Validate ideas by collecting customer feedback and running surveys.
Statista
Market data, statistics, and industry reports. Over 1 million data points for market sizing and research.
AI Assistants
ChatGPT
OpenAI's conversational AI. Brainstorm ideas, draft copy, analyze data, write code — the Swiss Army knife of AI.
Claude
Anthropic's AI assistant. Excels at long-form writing, analysis, coding, and nuanced reasoning.
Perplexity
AI-powered search engine with cited sources. Get research-grade answers instead of links. Great for market research.
Gemini
Google's AI with access to Search, YouTube, Maps, and more. Multimodal — understands text, images, and video.
Grok
xAI's conversational AI with real-time access to X/Twitter data. Good for trend analysis and social listening.
AI Coding
Claude Code
Anthropic's CLI agent for autonomous coding — plans, edits, and commits across your entire codebase.
Cursor
AI-first code editor built on VS Code. Tab-complete, chat, and multi-file edits powered by frontier models.
Bolt.new
Prompt-to-app in seconds. Full-stack web apps generated and deployed from a single prompt.
v0
Vercel's AI UI generator — describe a component and get production-ready React/Tailwind code.
Windsurf
AI-powered IDE with deep codebase understanding. Flows feature chains multi-step edits automatically.
GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer integrated into VS Code, JetBrains, and Neovim. Real-time code suggestions.
Lovable
Describe your app in plain English and get a working full-stack application. AI-powered rapid prototyping.
Replit
Browser-based IDE with AI agent that builds apps from prompts. Instant deploy, multiplayer coding, and hosting.
No-Code & Low-Code
Framer
Design and publish production websites visually. CMS, animations, and responsive layouts — no code needed.
Webflow
Professional website builder with CMS, e-commerce, and hosting. Design visually with full CSS control.
Bubble
Build full web applications without code. Database, workflows, API integrations, and user auth included.
Retool
Build internal tools fast. Drag-and-drop UI components connected to any database or API.
Airtable
Spreadsheet-database hybrid with automations, views, and app building. Perfect for MVPs and internal tools.
Design
Figma
Collaborative design tool for UI/UX. Prototyping, components, dev mode, and real-time multiplayer editing.
Canva
Drag-and-drop design for everything — social posts, logos, pitch decks, marketing materials.
Excalidraw
Virtual whiteboard for sketching ideas, wireframes, and architecture diagrams. Hand-drawn style.
Midjourney
AI image generation from text prompts. Create logos, hero images, product mockups, and marketing visuals.
Heroicons
Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons by the makers of Tailwind CSS. MIT licensed, free forever.
Lucide
Fork of Feather Icons with 1500+ icons. Clean, consistent, and open source.
Backend & Database
Supabase
Open-source Firebase alternative. Postgres database, auth, storage, edge functions, and realtime — all in one.
Firebase
Google's app platform with auth, Firestore, hosting, cloud functions, and analytics. Great for MVPs.
PlanetScale
Serverless MySQL platform with branching, schema changes without downtime, and global replication.
Neon
Serverless Postgres with branching, autoscaling to zero, and a generous free tier. Built for modern apps.
Upstash
Serverless Redis and Kafka. Pay-per-request pricing, perfect for rate limiting, caching, and queues.
Hosting & Deploy
Vercel
The platform for frontend frameworks. Zero-config deploys for Next.js with edge functions and analytics.
Railway
Infrastructure platform that makes deploying backends, databases, and cron jobs dead simple.
Fly.io
Deploy full-stack apps close to your users with global edge infrastructure and simple CLI.
Render
Cloud platform for hosting web apps, APIs, databases, and cron jobs. Free tier for static sites.
Coolify
Self-hostable alternative to Heroku/Netlify/Vercel. Deploy anything on your own servers.
Project Management
Linear
Issue tracking built for modern software teams. Fast, keyboard-driven, with cycles, roadmaps, and GitHub sync.
Notion
All-in-one workspace for notes, docs, wikis, project management, and databases. Extremely flexible.
Trello
Kanban boards made simple. Drag-and-drop task management with power-ups, automations, and templates.
Slack
Team communication hub with channels, threads, and 2,600+ app integrations. The default for startups.
GitHub
Code hosting, version control, CI/CD, and project management. Issues, Projects, and Actions — all in one.
Payments
Stripe
The gold standard for online payments. Subscriptions, invoicing, checkout, and 135+ currencies.
Lemon Squeezy
All-in-one payments platform for SaaS and digital products. Handles tax, invoicing, and subscriptions as merchant of record.
Paddle
Merchant of record handling global tax compliance, billing, and fraud protection. You focus on building.
Legal & Incorporation
Stripe Atlas
Incorporate a US company (Delaware C-Corp) in days. Includes EIN, bank account, and tax support.
Firstbase
Start and manage a US company from anywhere. Incorporation, registered agent, and compliance.
Termly
Generate privacy policies, terms of service, cookie banners, and GDPR consent. Stay compliant.
Domains & Email
Namecheap
Affordable domain registration with free WhoisGuard privacy. Also offers hosting and SSL.
Cloudflare
At-cost domain registration plus free CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, and web analytics.
Google Workspace
Professional email (you@yourdomain.com), Google Drive, Docs, Meet — all under your brand.
Zoho Mail
Ad-free business email with calendar and contacts. Budget-friendly Google Workspace alternative.
Content Creation
Descript
All-in-one video and podcast editor. Transcription-based editing — delete words to cut video. Screen recording included.
CapCut
Free video editor by ByteDance. Auto-captions, effects, templates — perfect for short-form social content.
Typefully
Write, schedule, and grow on Twitter/X and LinkedIn. Thread composer, analytics, and AI writing assistant.
Buffer
Schedule and publish content across all social platforms. Analytics and engagement tools for small teams.
Copy.ai
AI-powered copywriting for marketing. Blog posts, product descriptions, ads, and social media content.
ElevenLabs
AI voice generation and text-to-speech. Ultra-realistic voices for videos, podcasts, and product demos.
Marketing & Analytics
PostHog
Open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flags, and A/B testing. Self-host or cloud.
Plausible
Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative. Lightweight script, no cookies, GDPR compliant.
Resend
Email API built for developers. Beautiful transactional emails with React Email templates.
Beehiiv
Newsletter platform built for growth. Recommendations, referral program, and monetization built in.
Dub.co
Open-source link management for modern marketing teams. Analytics, QR codes, and custom domains.
Ubersuggest
SEO and keyword research tool by Neil Patel. Competitor analysis, content ideas, and rank tracking.
Hotjar
Heatmaps, session recordings, and surveys. Understand how users actually interact with your product.
Automation
Zapier
Connect 6,000+ apps with no-code automations. Triggers and actions to automate repetitive tasks.
Make
Visual automation platform (formerly Integromat). More powerful than Zapier for complex, branching workflows.
n8n
Open-source workflow automation. Self-host for free or use cloud. Code when you need it, no-code when you don't.
Trigger.dev
Open-source background jobs for developers. Write workflows in TypeScript with retries, scheduling, and webhooks.
Inngest
Durable workflow engine for TypeScript. Event-driven functions with built-in retries, queuing, and scheduling.
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