Free Tools & Resources For Entrepreneurs and Startups

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Not entirely sure where to post this, so hopefully posting here is fine. So I was going through some of my saved links, and thought these free tools and resources could be helpful for anyone starting their business online.






Free Tools and Free Resources For Entrepreneurs and Startups
FREE WEBSITE

  • http://html5up.net/ Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates.
  • https://bootswatch.com/ Free themes for Bootstrap.
  • http://templated.co/ A collection of 845 free CSS & HTML5 site templates.
  • https://wordpress.org/ | https://wordpress.com/ Create your new website for free.
  • https://www.strikingly.com/ Free, unlimited mobile optimized websites for strikingly domains.
  • http://www.layerswp.com/ A WordPress site builder so simple. It’s free, forever.
  • http://bootstrapzero.com/ The largest open-source, free Bootstrap template collection.
  • http://www.landingharbor.com/ Promote your mobile app with a free landing page.
FREE BRANDING & LOGO

  • https://www.logaster.com/ Professional online logo maker & generator.
  • http://www.hipsterlogogenerator.com/ It’s Hip, It’s Current, It’s Stylish, It’s Hipster.
  • https://www.squarespace.com/logo/ You can download free low-res version for free.
  • http://signature-maker.net/ A free web based tool that creates your handwritten digital signature.
FREE INVOICE

  • http://invoiceto.me/ Free Invoice Generator.
  • https://www.free-invoice-generator.com/ Alternative free invoice generator.
  • http://slimvoice.co/ Insanely simple invoices.
  • https://www.waveapps.com/ Free & easy accounting, invoicing and more.
  • http://invoice.to/ Free invoice generator.
FREE LEGAL DOCS

  • http://www.500.co/kiss/ Free legal docs for startup founders and investor.
  • https://www.docracy.com/ An open collection of free legal documents.
  • http://www.shakelaw.com/ Create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds. Free for personal use.
FREE IDEA MANAGEMENT

  • http://www.javelin.com/experiment-board.html Test your startup idea without wasting time or money.
  • http://germ.io/ Get from idea to execution.
  • https://evernote.com/skitch/ Your ideas become reality faster.
FREE BUSINESS / PROJECT NAME GENERATORS

  • http://thenameapp.com/ Find an available name for your brilliant idea.
  • http://www.naminum.com/ Discover a perfect company name.
  • http://shortdomainsearch.com/ Find short, available single-word domain names.
  • http://wordoid.com/ Pick a short and catchy name for your business.
  • http://www.hipsterbusiness.name/ Hipster business name generator.
  • http://impossibility.org/ The best domain name generator ever.
  • http://www.leandomainsearch.com/ Find a domain name for your website in seconds.
  • https://domainr.com/ Fast, free, domain name search, short URLs.
FREE WRITING / BLOGGING

  • http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
  • https://www.grammarly.com/ Finds & corrects mistakes of your writing.
  • https://medium.com/ Everyone’s stories and ideas.
  • http://www.zenpen.io/ The minimal writing tool of web.
  • http://liber.io/ Simple eBook creation and publishing right from Google Drive.
  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/editorial-calendar/ See all your posts, drag & drop to manage your blog.
  • https://www.storywars.net/ Writing stories together.
  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-hide-post/ Control the visibility of items on your blog.
  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-locker/ Ask visitors “to pay” for your content with a tweet, etc.
  • http://e.ggtimer.com/ Set a time and bookmark it for repeated use.
  • https://blankpage.io/ Writing made simple.
  • https://www.wattpad.com/signup The world’s largest community for readers and writers.
  • https://withknown.com/ A single site for the content you create.
  • https://www.wattpad.com/signup The world’s largest community for readers and writers.
  • https://www.dbook.org/ Structured and collaborative writing for large documents.
  • http://coschedule.com/headline-analyzer Blog post headline analyzer.
  • http://a5.gg/ When you return your text will still be here.
  • http://freesummarizer.com/ Summarize any text online in just a few seconds.
FIND (TRENDING) CONTENT (IDEAS)

  • http://www.portent.com/tools/title-maker Content idea generator.
  • https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?pn=p1 A new way of displaying trending searches.
  • http://buzzsumo.com/ Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.
  • https://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator Custom blog ideas.
  • http://www.swayy.co/ Discover the most engaging content. Free for 1 dashboard user.
  • Others:https://plus.google.com/explore/_https://mobile.twitter.com/trendshttps://www.quora.com/Content-Strategyhttps://www.reddit.com/
  • http://www.ruzzit.com/ Find the most shared content on the web.
FREE SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS

  • https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/ A comprehensive tool for link analysis.
  • https://ahrefs.com/ Site explorer & backlink checker.
  • http://www.quicksprout.com/ Complete analysis of your website.
  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/ Have a fully optimized WordPress site.
  • http://seositecheckup.com/ Check your website’s SEO problems for free.
  • https://marketing.grader.com/ Grade your marketing.
  • https://www.similarweb.com/ Analyze website statistics for any domain.
  • https://www.alexa.com/ Analytical insights to analyze any site’s rank.
  • https://serps.com/tools/rank_checker Free keyword rank & SERP checker.
  • http://openlinkprofiler.org/ The freshest backlinks, for free.
  • http://keywordtool.io/ Free alternative to Google Keyword Planner.
  • Google: https://www.google.com/analyticshttps://adwords.google.com/keywordplannerhttps://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en&pli=1https://www.google.com/trends/
  • http://nibbler.silktide.com/ Test any website.
  • http://www.browseo.net/ How search engines see your website.
  • http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/google-sitemap-generator/Find broken links, redirects & more.
  • http://www.copyscape.com/ Search for copies of your page on the web.
  • https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ Check the performance of your site.
  • https://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ Test & the load time of a site.
  • https://gtmetrix.com/ Analyze your page’s speed performance.
  • https://moz.com/local/search Check your local listings on Google, Bing, and others.
  • https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ Sitemap generator that creates XML & HTML variants.
  • https://ecommerce.shopify.com/grader Get your free Ecommerce report.
  • https://validator.w3.org/ Easy-to-use markup validation service.
FREE IMAGE OPTIMIZERS

  • https://tinyjpg.com/https://tinypng.com/ Compress images.
  • https://compressor.io/ Optimize and compress your images online.
  • https://kraken.io/web-interface Optimize your images & accelerate your websites.
  • http://www.imageoptimizer.net/Pages/Home.aspx Resize, compress and optimize your image files.
  • https://imageoptim.com/ Makes images take up less disk space & load faster.
  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/ Image optimizer WordPress plugin.
  • http://dunnnk.com/ Beautiful mockups.
  • http://www.instamockup.com/ Create beautiful screenshots of your app or website.
FREE IMAGE EDITORS

  • https://www.canva.com/ Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.
  • http://apps.pixlr.com/editor/ Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor.
  • https://evernote.com/skitch/ Get your point across with fewer words.
  • https://www.easel.ly/ Empowers anyone to create & share powerful visuals.
  • http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/seo-tools/favicon-generator-crop-images/ Create optimized images for social media.
  • https://placeit.net/ Free product mockups & templates.
  • http://www.recite.com/ Turn a quote into a visual masterpiece.
  • http://memegenerator.net/ The first online meme generator.
  • https://buffer.com/pablo Design engaging images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds.
FREE EMAIL MANAGEMENT

  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/ Famous WordPress plugin to collect email addresses.
  • https://mailchimp.com/ Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.
  • https://www.manycontacts.com/ Free contact form sits on top of your website.
  • https://www.hellobar.com/ Get more email subscribers.
  • https://sumome.com/app/list-builder Collect email addresses with light box popover.
  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/dreamgrow-scroll-triggered-box/ Boost your conversion rates — WordPress only.
  • https://sumome.com/app/scroll-box Capture more email addresses, politely.
  • http://mandrill.com/ The fastest way to deliver email. Free 12K emails/month.
  • https://www.mailgun.com/ The Email Service For Developers. Free 10K emails/month.
  • https://sendgrid.com/ Delivers your transactional and marketing email. Free 12K emails/month.
  • https://www.sendinblue.com/ Free 9K emails/month.
  • https://mailtrack.io/en/ The best free email tracking solution.
  • https://beefree.io/index.aspx Free Email editor to build responsive design messages.
  • http://www.cannedemails.com/ A minimal site with prewritten emails.
FREE GUIDES & COURSES

  • https://www.yourprimer.com/ No-nonsense, jargon-free marketing lessons (by Google).
  • https://receiptful.com/customer-lifetime-value-book A free e-book about maximizing Customer Lifetime Value.
  • http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/free-pricing-course/ A free 9-day course on charging what you’re worth.
  • http://youcangetsponsors.com/producthunt How to get sponsorships for anything.
  • http://buyin.startupsalesbootcamp.com/ A free course to help you become a better marketer.
  • https://a-course-about-building-online-courses.teachery.co/default A free course to help you build an online course.
  • http://www.mailcharts.com/email-marketing-best-practices A FREE email course to help you become a better marketer.
  • http://firstsiteguide.com/blogging-intro/ The beginner’s guide to successful blogging.
FREE SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

  • http://writerack.com/The best way to tweetstorm.
  • http://www.tryspruce.com/ Make Twitter ready images in seconds.
  • http://coschedule.com/click-to-tweet Get more shares on your content.
  • http://mytweetlinks.com/ Increases Twitter traffic.
  • http://www.latergram.me/ Easily plan & schedule your Instagram posts.
  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/pinterest-pin-it-button-for-images/ Add a “Pin It” button.
  • https://www.sharedcount.com/ Track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more.
  • http://howmanyshares.com/ Count how many shares a URL has across most social networks, all in one place.
  • http://www.crowdfireapp.com/ Follow / unfollow people on Twitter & Instagram.
  • https://www.socialrank.com/ Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter.
  • http://blog.klout.com/2014/06/klout-browser-extensions/ Social media influence score on browser extension.
  • https://ritetag.com/hashtag-academy/ritetag-browser-extensions-scheduling-productivity Instant hashtag analysis.
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-analytics/pgckigmaefoaemjpijdepakcghjkggmg/related Interactions for a URL on most social platforms.
  • https://bufferapp.com/ Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+.
  • https://bitly.com/ Create, share, and track shortened links.
  • http://filament.io/flare A free beautiful and customizable sharing bar.
  • https://www.addthis.com/ Get more shares, follows and conversions.
  • https://sumome.com/app/share Auto-optimizes your share buttons for max traffic.
  • https://wordpress.org/plugins/digg-digg/installation/ Your all in one share buttons plugin.
  • https://disqus.com/ Build a community of active readers & commenters.
  • https://launchkit.io/reviews App reviews delivered to Slack and your inbox.
  • http://presskitgenerator.com/ Generate a Press Kit for your iOS App for free.
  • http://www.freesurveycreator.com/ Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
FREE CUSTOMER SERVICE & SURVEYS

  • http://www.typeform.com/ Free beautiful online survey & form builder.
  • http://tally.tl/ Create polls in no time.
  • http://www.freesurveycreator.com/ Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
  • https://batch.com/ The first-ever 100% free engagement platform for mobile apps.
  • http://helprace.com/ Customer service tool. Free for up to 3 agents for small support teams.
A/B TESTS & GROWTH HACKING

  • http://petithacks.com/ Acquisition, retention, & revenue hacks used by companies.
  • https://www.optimizely.com/ One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.
  • http://hellobar.com/Tool for A/B testing different CTAs & power words.
  • https://growthhackers.com/ Unlocking growth. Together.
FREE DESIGN RESOURCES

  • http://freebbble.com/ High-quality design freebies from Dribbble.
  • https://dribbble.com/search?q=freebie Dribbble search results for “freebie”. An absolute freebie treasure.
  • http://graphicburger.com/ Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel.
  • http://pixelbuddha.net/ Free and premium resources for professional community.
  • http://www.premiumpixels.com/ Free Stuff for Creative Folk.
  • http://fribbble.com/ Free PSD resources by Dribbblers curated by Gilbert Pellegrom.
  • http://freebiesbug.com/ Latest free PSDs & other resources for designers.
  • http://365psd.com/ Download a free psd every day.
  • http://dbfreebies.co/ Dribbble & Behance best design freebies.
  • https://marvelapp.com/resources/ Free resources from designers we love.
  • http://uispace.net/ High quality hand-crafted Freebies for awesome people.
  • http://www.pixeden.com/free-design-web-resources Free design resources.
  • https://creativemarket.com/free-goods Freebies coming out every Monday.
  • http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/iphone/ iOS 8 GUI PSD (iPhone 6).
  • http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/ipad/ iPad GUI PSD.
  • http://www.freepik.com/ iFree graphic resources for everyone.
  • http://www.techandall.com/ PSD, Tech News, and other resources for free.
  • http://www.invisionapp.com/tethr The most beautiful IOS design KIT ever.
  • http://web3canvas.com/ PSD Freebies, HTML Snippets, Inspirations & Tutorials.
  • http://www.sketchappsources.com/ Free graphical resources.
  • http://freebies.placeit.net/ Freebies delivered right to your Dropbox.
COLOR PICKERS

  • http://www.materialpalette.com/ Generate & export your Material Design color palette.
  • http://www.flatuicolorpicker.com/ Best flat colors for UI design.
  • http://flatuicolors.com/ Beautiful flat colors.
  • http://coolors.co/ Super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
  • http://bjango.com/mac/skalacolor/ An extraordinary color picker for designers and developers.
  • http://www.materialui.co/colors Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.
  • http://colorfulgradients.tumblr.com/ Gradients automatically created by a computer.
  • https://briangonzalez.github.io/jquery.adaptive-backgrounds.js/ Extract dominant colors from images.
  • http://brandcolors.net/ Colors used by famous brands.
  • http://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF The color scheme designer.
  • http://www.0to255.com/ A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
  • http://www.colourlovers.com/ Create & share colors, palettes, and patterns.
  • https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ Color combinations from the Kuler community.
  • https://bootflat.github.io/color-picker.html Perfect colors for flat designs.
  • http://hex.colorrrs.com/ Hex to RGB converter.
  • http://getuicolors.com/ Get awesome UI colors.
  • https://www.coleure.com/ Smart color picker.
  • http://colllor.com/ Color palette generator.
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/palette-for-chrome/oolpphfmdmjbojolagcbgdemojhcnlod Creates a color palette from any image.
  • http://www.pltts.me/ Free color picker.
INSPIRATION

  • http://www.materialup.com/ Daily material design inspiration.
  • http://fltdsgn.com/ Daily showcase of the best flat UI design websites and apps.
  • http://www.siteinspire.com/ Web design inspiration.
  • http://ui-cloud.com/ The largest user interface design database in the world.
  • http://www.gomoodboard.com/ Build a beautiful moodboard and share the result.
  • http://www.crayon.co/ The most comprehensive collection of marketing designs.
  • http://land-book.com/ Product landing pages gallery.
  • http://ocean.ink/ A community of designers sharing feedback.
  • https://dribbble.com/ Show and tell for designers.
  • https://www.behance.net/ Showcase & discover creative work.
  • http://pttrns.com/ Mobile user interface patterns.
  • https://www.pinterest.com/warmarc/flat-ui-design/Useful Pinterest board.
  • http://www.awwwards.com/ The awards for design, creativity and innovation.
  • http://www.thestarterkit.info/ Curated resources for developers and designers.
  • https://onepagelove.com/ Resource for one-page website inspiration.
  • http://www.uiparade.com/ User interface design tools and design inspiration.
  • https://www.thebestdesigns.com/ The best of web design.
  • http://agiledesigners.com/ Best resources for designers & developers.
  • https://niice.co/ A search engine with taste.
 
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Megawatz said:
  • Ocean: A community of designers sharing feedback
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The first one I tried is now a landing page for a startup! lol typical, its been repurposed! your list is already too old! lol
 
I looked at many of those tools and only Adobe and WordPress can provide versatile tools, however even that software is bloated and their scope of use is quite limited. Their automation features are poor and that's what I don't like about current stage of internet marketing, that people do everything manually or with AI. That really makes me red.
RoiBox said:
Thats a big collection, will take me some time to go thru them all .. =)

Thanks, one can never get to many resources.
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I have my own private tools for each of those. It makes more sense to get 1000 things instead of one. It's not because I'm deviant or something. It's just how it works. To be efficient you need thousands of copies of a product / site.

So example, instead of making a unique site, you make a template and that makes sites on command (1 click / command in commandline).
One tool to do it in is Python programming language + its features https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/string.html#template-strings

I think it's how capitalism works, you do one good thing 10k times. They pay you good 10k times.
Megawatz said:
COLOR PICKERS
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I used some of those sites about 2 weeks ago and then I just switched to generating colors using HSV. Now I have a free color assistant that works how I want it to work. I can set darker, brighter color schemes, then do derivatives. HSV lets control how lively color should be by changing saturation (S), then hue which is just... color. And "value" - the lower you set, the closer to black your color is gonna be.

I think it's just powerful and that's what I would want as an entrepreneur.
Megawatz said:
FREE BRANDING & LOGO
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This you can do automatically too. There's nothing fancy about putting text next to icons in a stable fashion.
 
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Megawatz said:
Not entirely sure where to post this, so hopefully posting here is fine. So I was going through some of my saved links, and thought these free tools and resources could be helpful for anyone starting their business online.






Free Tools and Free Resources For Entrepreneurs and Startups
FREE WEBSITE

FREE BRANDING & LOGO

FREE INVOICE

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

FREE BUSINESS / PROJECT NAME GENERATORS

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)

FREE SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS

FREE IMAGE OPTIMIZERS

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

FREE GUIDES & COURSES

FREE SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

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.
FREE DESIGN RESOURCES

COLOR PICKERS

INSPIRATION

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Appreciate you share this. I'll go through it when I get the time.
 
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