Tools of the trade

Will Power

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12startups

3 min readDec 2, 2017

Essential #startup #tools. Each of the tools listed have been tried & tested.

Launching can be hard 😵. Don’t know where to start?

You will find a list of tools that we use on a day-to-day basis to help you get started.

Tools that you will need to launch

Domain Names - Cheap Domain Names | Namecheap.Com

The Domain Name Registrar with the BEST Customer Service. See why over 2 million customers trust US with nearly 5…

www.namecheap.com

Carrd - Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything

A free platform for building simple, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.

carrd.co

Beautiful Free Images | Unsplash

Beautiful high quality free images and photos you can download and use for any project. No attribution required.

unsplash.com

Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS - WordPress

The WordPress project recently released WordPress 4.9, "Tipton" - a new major release named in honor of musician and…

wordpress.org

The best apps. Better together. - Zapier

Zapier makes it easy to automate tasks between web apps.

zapier.com

Firebase

Firebase is Google's mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps and grow your business.

firebase.google.com

Cloud Application Platform | Heroku

Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in…

heroku.com

You don't need to be a coder

Bubble introduces a new way to build a web application. It's a point-and-click programming tool, entirely without code…

bubble.is

Ecommerce Software - Best Ecommerce Platform Made for You - Free Trial

We're not just an ecommerce software, Shopify is the best ecommerce platform that has everything you need to sell…

shopify.com

Airtable: Organize anything you can imagine

Airtable works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power of a database to organize anything. Sign up for free.

airtable.com

DigitalOcean: Cloud computing designed for developers

DigitalOcean is a simple and robust cloud computing platform, designed for developers.

www.digitalocean.com

Stripe

Stripe is a suite of APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

stripe.com

Backblaze Online Backup

Backblaze is a pioneer in robust, scalable low cost cloud backup and storage services. Personal online backup to…

backblaze.com

Hotjar - Heatmaps, Visitor Recordings, Conversion Funnels, Form Analytics, Feedback Polls and…

See how visitors are really using your website, collect user feedback and turn more visitors into customers.

www.hotjar.com

Coverr - Beautiful, free videos for your homepage

Beautiful, free videos for your homepage background

www.coverr.co

Productivity tools

iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm

iterm2.com

f.lux

Is your computer keeping you up late? f.lux is a free download that warms up your computer display at night, to match…

justgetflux.com

Postman

Postman is the complete toolchain for API developers, used by more than 3 million developers and 30,000 companies…

www.getpostman.com

Pocket

When you find something you want to view later, put it in Pocket.

getpocket.com

Master Password - Secure your life, forget your passwords.

No cloud provider to trust, no backups to maintain and no data connection for keeping in sync. Since Master Password…

masterpasswordapp.com

Music for everyone.

Spotify is a digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.

spotify.com

Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined

Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud…

code.visualstudio.com

Discord - Free Voice and Text Chat

Step up your game with a modern voice & text chat app. Crystal clear voice, multiple server and channel support, mobile…

discordapp.com

Where work happens

Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come…

slack.com

Write your best with Grammarly.

Our free grammar checker instantly eliminates grammatical errors and enhances your writing. Grammarly is trusted by…

www.grammarly.com

Hemingway Editor

Edit description

www.hemingwayapp.com

Trello

Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the…

trello.com

Flowchart Maker & Online Diagram Software

draw.io is free online diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER and network…

www.draw.io

The digital design toolkit

Sketch is a design toolkit built to help you create your best work - from your earliest ideas, through to final artwork…

www.sketchapp.com

Placeholder.com - Quick & Simple Placeholder Images, Text & More

Adding an image file extension will render the image in the proper format. Image format is optional and the default is…

www.placehold.it

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