16 tools to speed up your startup growth!
Untraditional startup event. 16 useful tools that can help accelerate your startup creation journey. Summary of Zero to One book.
Hey! 👋
This is Dovydas from Exponential Founder. Twice a month, I share resources & information for aspiring founders, entrepreneurs, and startup enthusiasts.
Today’s post is different.
It’s written by my friend, Ignas! 👏
When I met him at a hackathon last summer, it was clear that he was passionate about startup development.
He worked as a growth marketer for several food tech companies, such as HelloFresh and Startuper’s Smoothies. So growth marketing is his strength. Therefore, Ignas is serving us some great tools that you can use for your own business or project!
“If Plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters.”
– Claire Cook
16 exciting tools to accelerate startup development!
It’s hard to get lost in the so-called “digital tool era”, especially in the very beginning of using them. In my personal experience, I was struggling to find tools that could fit my ambitions as a starter: free, easy to use, and fruitful. After several weeks of testing and putting various tools into practice, my aim was to find the ones that could be my go-to helpers when turning a new idea into reality.
Therefore, below I identified 16 tools across different categories that I found personally resourceful, and I hope they can also help in your startup development process.
Ideation/Inspiration:
IdeasAI – openAI-powered startup idea generator.
Ideas Grab – a list of +3400 ideas that you can use for your own projects.
Startup Recipes – an info product designed to help early-stage entrepreneurs get an online business off the ground by showing how to build well-established businesses with no-code tools.
Web Design/Landing Pages:
Webflow – a content management system that empowers designers to build professional, custom websites in a completely visual canvas with no code.
Framer – a free, easy-to-use tool for making interactive prototypes of apps and websites.
Company In A Box – create a compelling landing page for your startup idea and start collecting leads in seconds.
Early Traffic Acquisition:
Startuplister – get listed on 40+ websites with Startuplister! This tool manually submits your startup to high-quality startup directories, review sites, and blogs to help you drive traffic, acquire customers and grow your following.
Gummy Search – find relevant Reddit communities and leverage them for feedback, traffic, and testing!
Product Hunt – get early users and see the most trending products within the community of founders.
Indie Hackers – real stories from real startup founders: discuss, explore, and communicate with other founders!
Ad Design:
AdCreative AI – generates conversion-focused ad creatives and social media post creatives in a matter of seconds using AI.
Canva – free and easy-to-use online graphing tool. Use existing templates as inspiration or foundation for your ads!
Pitch Deck:
Paste by WeTransfer – make slides that stand out in seconds.
Beautiful AI – generative AI presentation software for startup presentation building.
Pitch.com – visually-heavy yet appealing and easy-to-make pitch-building tool.
SlideBean – helping founders succeed through the pitching process – find investors, build decks and start growing your startup.
It’s important to note that there are plenty of tools that are similar to the ones I mentioned. It just depends on personal preference. The key to not getting lost in the “sea of thousand tools” is just dedicating some free time to do thorough research on what works and what does not for you.
By following such a method, you will be able to save countless hours in the exhausting yet exciting startup development process. Good luck!
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Interesting resources
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