80+ Useful Websites for startups and small businesses
Being efficient at work is all about using the right tools. So here are some of our favourite tools, we hope you find them useful and they help improve your work life.
Communication
Slack Messenger specially designed for managing group projects.
Zoom The recently IPO'd remote conferencing service
Design
Canva A graphic editor, using the drag-and-drop principle. Need to make a cover for a website or social networks? This is the tool to use.
Fiverr Logo design for 5 dollars?
Invision The easiest way to make a prototype of the application.
Pics.io Store all your design images, quickly and easily share them with colleagues.
Compressor.io Online tool to optimize your images without quality loss
Coolors Creating a harmonious color palette with one press of a space bar.
WithOomph Logo design for social networks and full branding products for a reasonable price.
Pablo A simple platform for editing images and preparing them for publication in social networks. A choice of many templates with nice designs.
Figma An online design and collaboration tool for better prototyping. Complete with process design - map your interface actions to their intended purpose.
MixMax Make mail more efficient. Tracking functionality, processes automation and planning.
Boomerang Set notifications to make sure you remember to reply to emails.
MailChimp Everything to make a cool newsletter: from design to analytics and testing.
Revue The easiest way to make a newsletter. Revue makes for an excellent presentation.
Sortd Assistant to organize work in Gmail. Sortd organizes all your mail in convenient lists for you.
Finance
Stripe The credit card processor focusing on developers. A YC backed unicorn started by two brothers.
Wave Accounting for small businesses: accounting for income and expenses, automatic invoicing, personal finance, and more.
Abukai A tool for quick expense reporting.
Shoeboxed Digital storage for paper receipts, business cards, accounts. The tool will help you scan and organize all the important papers, create expense reports, track profits.
Fundraising
Kickstarter Crowd funding platform for creative projects around the world.
Frontfundr Crowd sourced fund rasising.
Indiegogo Another crowdfunding platform for projects.
Gust The world's largest platform for establishing connections between companies and investors.
Graphics
Unsplash Beautiful, free, professional photos for your projects.
HTML5 Up Stunning free to download responsive site templates.
Behance High quality inspiration for your design work.
Dribbble Very similar to Behance - inspiration from the latest trends in design.
Stock Up Search for stock photos in high quality all over the internet.
Pexels Many beautiful free photos.
The Noun Project Icons for all occasions.
Iconfinder Convenient search for icons for design projects. Lots of great freebies.
Freepik Free vector graphics.
Designer Mill Everything that can be useful for design: icons, fonts, scripts, templates.
GraphicBurger High quality design resources. Free for both commercial and personal use.
Videvo Video and graphics for your projects in high resolution.
Ideal validation
Business Model Canvas Creator Create a brainstorm with your team.
Validately Simple research and testing of your prototype: design, UI, code.
Marketing
Picatic Easy to use service to register for your event. Very beautiful tool for event marketing.
Typeform Intuitive service for creating forms and conducting surveys.
Optimizely A useful tool for conducting A / B testing.
Wistia Video hosting for businesses.
Ad Spend Calculator A calculator that helps you calculate how much money you should spend on advertising.
Hive Conveniently organized analytics on links for publishing materials on different platforms.
Presentation
Swipe.to Create an interactive presentation using beautiful Swipe.to templates.
Slidebean AI powered presentation software.
Haiku Deck Make a nice presentation in a couple of minutes.
Project management
Moo.do Brings together the organization of your tasks in one place.
Quip Work with documents, tables in a team.
Tacoapp Keep all your tasks in one place.
Asana The easiest way to stay up to date with what your colleagues are doing.
Trello Perhaps the best tool for organizing project tasks and tracking progress if you work in a team. Popular free alternative to Jira
Productivity
Absentia The best leave planner for your team. Obviously.
Microsoft Flow Tie together all the applications that you use to work, and save a lot of time.
Coffitivity Cannot work in silence, but music is distracting? Open Coffitivity and enjoy the background noise from the coffee shops.
IFTTT Full automation of all processes. Let your applications work for you.
Notion A simple combination of a notes store, knowledge base and a task tracker in one product.
Fastest Fish A file transfer tool capable of transfering very large files. Uses a peer to peer connection to transfer files between devices.
Discovery
Medium Useful materials, blogs of companies that share their experiences, lessons, tools and much more.
ProductHunt Ratings of the best applications and services in different categories.
Social
Hootsuite Social network management and analytics.
Buffer Convenient timing of publications on social networks.
Iconosquare Everything you wanted to know about your statistics on Instagram.
Twitonomy Full Twitter analytics.
Later Instagram posting and account management.
Tweetdeck Manage multiple Twitter accounts at once.
Cloud storage
Dropbox First gained popularity when it was demoed on Reddit with a video created by the founder.
Google Drive Store and edit files online.
Time tracking
Toggl Time tracker. It will help you focus on one task and helps not to be distracted from work.
Harvest Allows you to not only track the time spent on work, but also helps schedule.
Website Stuff
Carrd Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.
Rota Planner A powerful tool to help you plan your work schedules and shifts, then share them with your team.
Google Analytics Keep track of your site statistics.
Mix Panel Clear and simple statistics with a focus on custom events.
SumoMe Everything you need to increase the traffic on your site: analyze the heat map, improve the distribution and improve your social network shareability.
Mouse Flow Track behavior of users on your site.
Unbounce Landing pages that you can customize completely and track your results.
Qwilr Quickly create web pages or presentations using design templates.
Webflow Design, prototyping and publishing of web pages. Everything is in the browser, without a single line of code.