A curated list of 100+ resources & tools to help you build, launch and grow your startup

Bram from “Off the record” put together his Startup Stash. A list of tools and resources to help you build and grow your Startup. The list is excellent, but not easily scannable. So here it is in one long, scannable list.

— I made a few additions of my own

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Idea Generation

• Germ.io — Capture ideas, brainstorm and turn them into actionable ideas.
• Experiment Board —Use the lean validation/experiment board to describe, validate and refine your business idea.
• Curator — The No.1 tool for the creative process. From the first fragment of an idea to presentation. Simple, fast, powerful.
• Point — Use Point to send and discuss webpages with friends and teammates.
• Stache — Bookmarking done right.
• MindMeister — Mind Mapping for teams.
• BoxNotes — Create documents, take notes and share ideas in real-time with anyone.
• Skitch by Evernote — Get your point across with fewer words.
• xMind — A more elegant way to gather, analyze and utilize knowledge, information and ideas.
• Elevatr — A fast, beautiful, and fun way to capture, organize, and share business ideas.

Naming

• Naminum — Naminum is the leading startup, company and website name generator on the web.
• NameMesh — NameMesh helps you in finding a perfect name for your startup or business using an intelligent ranking and classification program.
• Namechk — Check the availability of your username across dozens of the most popular social network websites with NameChk.
• KnowEm — KnowEm allows you to check for the use of your brand, product and username instantly on over 500 social media websites.
• DockName — Dock Name is a crowdsourced service that helps startups find a domain name.
• NameRobot — NameRobot offers everything you need to create suitable naming ideas in a short time.
• Panabee — Panabee is a simple way to search for domain names, app and company names.
• BrandBucket — Explore premium, quality, hand-picked, unique and brandable business names available for sale for your business venture.
• Trademarkia — Trademarkia is one of the largest trademark search engines in the world. Search Millions of Trademarks Filed Since 1870 For Free.
• How To Name Your Startup — The name of your startup is critically important to its success, and in this video Jason Calacanis tells you how to land an amazing name.

Domain Name

• Namecheap — Namecheap makes registering, hosting, and managing domains for yourself or others easy and affordable.
• Domainr — Domainr helps you explore the entire domain name space beyond the ubiquitous and crowded .com, .net and .org.
• Namebox — Buy unwanted and/or unused web domains that other people won’t be using anymore.
• Name.com — Name.com is here to help you get your ideas online with a domain name and a website.
• I Want My Name —My favourite domain name search engine.

Hosting

• Bluehost — Bluehost offers the best web hosting, powering over 2 million website worldwide.
• BladeWP — BladeWP offers Clustered and Fast Wordpress hosting with 24/7 support.
• WP Engine — WP Engine provides managed WordPress hosting for mission critical sites around the world. With amazing support.
• Rackspace — Rackspace manages your cloud services. You run your business.
• Amazon Web Services — Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
• Heroku — Heroku provides services and tools to build, run, and scale web applications.
• DigitalOcean — DigitalOcean is simplifying cloud by providing an infrastructure experience that developers love.
• Joyent — High-Performance Public Cloud and Private Cloud Software Made Easy.
• StatusCake — Make sure you’re the first to know about your website’s downtime. With monitoring up to every 30 seconds & alerts by email, Twitter & phone.
• Dotcloud — Assemble your stack from dozens of pre-configured components. dotCloud deploys and scales it for you.
• Hoasted — Hoasted offers incredibly fast and unlimited hosting, graded 9.3 out of 10. Questions responded to in under an hour!

Market Research

• Google Trends — Google Trends gives you insights on search-terms, you can also compare the volume of searches between two or more terms.
• Validately — Validate demand or usability on a clickable prototype or live feature with Validately.
• AYTM is a DIY survey platform with a built-in consumer panel bringing the power of consumer insights to everyone.
• Proved — Proved connects to your potential customers and benchmarks your idea against thousands of others. Fresh idea? Test. Improve. Go!
• Consumer Barometer — The Consumer Barometer is a free tool that delivers consumer insights in the fast changing digital landscape.
• CrunchBase — CrunchBase is the world’s most comprehensive dataset of startup activity and it’s accessible to everyone.
• SimilarWeb — Analyze your competitors’ traffic and identify growth opportunities online with SimilarWeb.
• Compass — Compass aims to reduce the massive failure rate of businesses in a scalable way.
• Statista — Statista is the leading international statistics portal on the internet.
• GutCheck — GutCheck is an on-demand market research solution delivering quality real-time insights from your target audience.

Forms & Surveys

• Typeform — Typeform is a free and beautiful online survey and form builder.
• Surveypal — Use Surveypal to design beautiful, cross-device surveys that boost response rates, start collecting responses today.
• Qualaroo — Get Voice of Customer Insights that Help Your Business Grow with Qualaroo.
• Qualtrics — Qualtrics is a rapidly growing software-as-a-service company and the provider of the world’s leading insight platform.
• Formstack — Formstack quickly lets you create and deploy the web forms you need without any coding knowledge.
• Delighted — Delighted uses the Net Promoter System® to gather real feedback from your customers.
• Peek — See and hear a 5-minute video of a real person using your site or app with Peek.
• SurveyMonkey — SurveyMonkey is the simple way to create surveys: Intelligent survey software for primates of all species.
• Verify — Verify allows you to quickly test concepts with users to get faster feedback.
• Google consumer surveys — When you want answers to your business questions, you need to reach everyday people — Google consumer surveys helps you with that.

Mockups & Wireframing

• Moqups — is the most stunning HTML5 app for creating resolution-independent SVG mockups & wireframes for your next project.
• Balsamiq Mockups — Balsamiq Mockups is a wireframing tool to help rid the world of bad software.
• Mockingbird — Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
• Justinmind — Justinmind is a powerful wireframe software to define web and mobile applications.
• Concept.ly — Concept.ly is a Web and Mobile mockups tool. Convert wireframes and designs into interactive Apps.
• Flint0 — Use Flinto to create iOS and Android prototypes made from your existing screen designs.
• Gliffy— Create professional-quality flowcharts, Org charts, UML diagrams and more with Gliffy.
• Lucidchart — Lucidchart is a flow chart maker & online diagram software.
• MockFlow — Design and collaborate on user interface concepts for your apps and websites with MockFlow.
• OmniGraffle — OmniGraffle is for creating beautiful, precise graphics. Available for Mac and iPad.

Design Resources

• UICloud — UICloud collects the best user interface designs from the internet and provides a search engine for you to find the best UI element you need.
• UX Archive — UX Archive helps you compare the most interesting iPhone app user flows.
• Little Big Details— Little Big Details is a curated collection of the finer details of design, updated every day.
• Sketch — Sketch gives you the power, flexibility and speed you always wanted in a lightweight and easy-to-use package.
• Feedbag.io — Feedbag.io helps you collect feedback in a visual and user-friendly manner.
• Invision — Transform your Web & Mobile (iOS, Android) designs into clickable, interactive Prototypes and Mockups with InVision.
• Crayon — Crayon is the most comprehensive collection of marketing designs on the web.
• pttrns — The finest collection of mobile design patterns, resources and inspiration.
• uiGIFs — uiGIFs showcases new user interfaces in the form of animated GIFs. All of the apps showcased on the site are real, launched apps.
• Pixate — Pixate empowers you to create complex interactions, without the complexity.

Developer Tools

• GitLab — GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features.
• DevDocs — DevDocs combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface.
• PublicAPIs — PublicAPIs is the Largest API Directory In The Galaxy.
• Codefresh — Codefresh offers a complete development environment in the cloud, that accelerates the time required to build great cloud apps.
• Node.js — Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications.
• MessageBird — Send SMS and voice messages worldwide via MessageBird’s website, email or your own software (API).
• Coda — Coda is everything you need to hand-code a website, in one beautiful app.
• Readme — Crowdsource your developer hub with ReadMe.io.
• Stamplay — Parse meets IFTTT, changing how software is built. Create advanced web and mobile apps in a fraction of the time with Stamplay.
• Algolia — Algolia is an instant search API that allows any website or mobile applications to offer the users a seamless and extremely fast search experience.
• GitHub — The GitHub platform provides powerful collaboration, code review, and code management for open source and private projects.
• Wercker — Test and deploy your applications with ease. Together, with Wercker.
• Divide.io — Divide.io is an open source backend library for mobile apps.
• New Relic — New Relic is a software analytics company that makes sense of 250 billion data points daily from millions of applications.
• Codeship — Release more frequently, get faster feedback and build the product your users need with Codeship.
• Deploy — Deploy your websites or apps directly from your repository to servers or the cloud.
• Pagoda Box — Pagoda Box is an Object Oriented Hosting Framework.
• Engine Yard— Deploy, scale and monitor your app with the Engine Yard cloud application management platform.
• CircleCI — CircleCI is simple, powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment for developers.

Social Tools

• Brand24 — Identify and analyze online conversations about your brand, product and competition. Easy to use, reliable and cost-effective. Brand24 is used by hundreds of businesses of all sizes.
• Narrow — Narrow uses modern Twitter marketing techniques to help you build a targeted audience.
• Buffer — Buffer is the easiest way to publish on social media.
• Hootsuite — Hootsuite is the world’s most widely used social relationship platform, with more than 10 million users in 175+ countries.
• Woobox — Woobox helps you easily create powerful contests, sweepstakes, coupons, and more to grow your fans and amplify your marketing.
• Twitter Counter — Twitter Counter provides detailed statistics into your Twitter activity and followers growth.
• Simply Measured — Simply Measured offers the most complete measurement solution for social media marketers.
• Mention — Media monitoring made easy with Mention. Create alerts on your name, brand, competitors and be informed in real-time of any mention on the web and social networks.
• Wedgies — Wedgies is a real-time platform that aggregates data and creates better interaction through questions.
• SocialSensr — SocialSensr helps organizations become people-connected companies, by offering user-friendly, state-of -the-art Social Media Management tools.

MVP

• QuickMVP — QuickMVP is the easiest way to test your ideas, without wasting time or money.
• Generator — Generator is the easiest way to make a landing page for your startup.
• Proto.io — Proto.io is a web platform enabling users to create fully interactive mobile app prototypes.
• LaunchRock — Use LaunchRock to Start Now and Launch Your Landing Page in Minutes. Acquire, engage and grow your audience with powerful social sharing tools & analytics that drive user growth.
• Instapage — Instapage makes building and A/B split testing landing pages simple.
• Marvel — Just had the next billion-dollar app idea? Grab a pen and within minutes your idea will come to life with Marvel.
• Untorch — A fully automated referral program for email signups
• Strikingly — Strikingly is an online web platform enabling individuals to build mobile-optimized websites.
• Blocks App — Build beautiful websites without touching a line of code with Blocs app.
• POP — POP helps you transform your pen + paper ideas into a real working prototype.

Marketing

• Revue — Create an engaging, gorgeous, weekly digest. You focus on curation, Revue makes sure it looks awesome.
• SumoMe — Get the best tools to increase your site’s traffic, signups, shares, and sexiness with SumoMe.
• MailChimp — More than 7 million people use MailChimp to design and send email marketing campaigns.
• Branch Metrics — Branch Metrics helps apps grow through seamless referrals, sharing and deep linking across installs.
• GrowthHackers — GrowthHackers is a community to learn and share about ethical online marketing techniques that drive effective, scalable and sustainable growth.
• Customer.io — Customer.io helps you send targeted human messages to your users, by utilizing their unique interactions with your business.
• Exit Monitor — Exit Monitor converts your exiting web visitors into leads.
• Really Good Emails — Really Good Emails is a large collection of good product email design.
• petithacks — petithacks showcases a collection of Acquisition, Retention, & Revenue hacks used by companies.
• Gleam — Gleam helps thousands of businesses run amazing competitions across social networks.

Early Users

• BetaList — BetaList has previously covered startups such as Pinterest, IFTTT and Mailbox before they launched and made it big.
• ProductHunt — ProductHunt is a curation of the best new products, every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone’s talking about.
• StartupList — StartupList is a place to find cool startups.
• Startuptabs — The startup discovery engine. Startuptabs help you discover new startups with every tab you open.
• Show Hacker News — Show Hacker News is a way to share something that you’ve made on Hacker News.
• ErliBird — ErliBird is an early adopter and beta testing community with 40,000+ real-world users. For Android, iOS apps, websites, and tech gadgets with real-world tech lovers.
• /r/startups — /r/startups is a community for all backgrounds, levels of expertise, and business experience.
• Launching Next — Launching Next showcases the world’s most promising new startups every day.
• KillerStartups — KillerStartups is a user driven internet startups community.

Presentations

• Slidebean — Dozens of pitch deck templates for startups. Just add your content, Slidebean designs it for you.
• Swipe — With Swipe, anything can be a slide and you can present it live to anyone, anywhere, on any device.
• FlowVella — FlowVella is the perfect presentation software for the modern world. Create stunning presentations from your Mac or iPad — share them with anyone.
• Silk — With Silk, you can publish your data online, beautifully.
• SlideShare — SlideShare is a LinkedIn company and the world’s largest community for sharing presentations.
• Chartblocks — Chartblocks is the world’s easiest chart builder app. Design and share a chart in minutes.
• Slides Carnival — Slides Carnival provides you with free templates for your Google slides presentations.
• Prezi — Prezi Resonate, motivate, and be remembered with Prezi, presentation software reimagined.
• Infogr.am — Infogr.am is the world’s most popular infographics creator.
• Haiku Deck — Create inspiring presentations and set your story free with Haiku Deck, available for iPad and iPhone, or on the web.

To Be Continued…

I’m adding about 10 new resources per day.