Ali Mese is a freelancer, wanderer, and contributor to few startup projects. Say hi on Facebook or Twitter. This post originally appeared on his Medium blog.
I’ve prepared a list of 300 web resources that are not only awesome, but free to use. Please let me know if I am missing any other useful resource!
Business + Marketing
A. FREE WEBSITE + LOGO + HOSTING + INVOICING
- HTML5 UP:Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates.
- Bootswatch:Free themes for Bootstrap.
- Templated:A collection of 845 free CSS & HTML5 site templates.
- WordPress.org | WordPress.com: Create your new website for free.
- Strikingly.com Domain:Free website resources for strikingly.com domains.
- Withoomph: Beautiful logos designed instantly.
- Hipster Logo Generator:It’s Hip, It’s Current, It’s Stylish, It’s Hipster.
- Squarespace Free Logo:You can download free low-res version for free.
- Hive:First free unlimited cloud service in the world.
- Invoice to me: Free Invoice Generator.
- Free Invoice Generator: Alternative free invoice generator.
- Slimvoice:Insanely simple invoices.
B. FREE BUSINESS / PROJECT NAME GENERATORS
- The Name App: Find an available name for your brilliant idea.
- Naminum:Discover a perfect company name.
- Short Domain Search:Find short, available single-word domain names.
- Wordoid:Pick a short and catchy name for your business.
- Hipster Business Name:Hipster business name generator.
- Impossibility: The best domain name generator ever.
- Lean Domain Search: Find a domain name for your website in seconds.
- Domainr:Fast, free, domain name search, short URLs.
C. 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.
- Headline Analyzer:Emotional marketing value headline analyzer.
- 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.
D. FIND (TRENDING) CONTENT (IDEAS)
- Portent:Content idea generator.
- Google Trends:A new way of displaying trending searches.
- Buzzsumo:Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.
- Hubspot Blog Topic Generator:Custom blog ideas.
- Swayy:Discover the most engaging content. Free for 1 dashboard user.
- Others: Google+ What’s Hot | Twitter Trending | Quora | Reddit
E. FREE SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS
- Open Site Explorer:A comprehensive tool for link analysis.
- Ahrefs:Site explorer & backlink checker.
- Quick Sprout:Complete analysis of your website.
- WordPress SEO by Yoast:Have a fully optimized WordPress site.
- SEO Site Checkup:Check your website’s SEO problems for free.
- Hubspot Marketing Grader:Grade your marketing.
- SimilarWeb:Analyze website statistics for any domain.
- Alexa Ranking: Analytical insights to analyze any site’s rank.
- SERPs Rank Checker:Free keyword rank & SERP checker.
- OpenLinkProfiler:The freshest backlinks, for free.
- Keywordtool.io:Free alternative to Google Keyword Planner.
- Google: Analytics | Keyword Planner | Webmaster Tools | Trends
- Nibbler:Test any website.
- Browseo:How search engines see your website.
- Broken Links:Find broken links, redirects & more.
- Copyscape:Search for copies of your page on the web.
- Woorank:Website review and SEO tool.
- Google Pagespeed Insights:Check the performance of your site.
- Pingdom Website Speed Test:Test & the load time of a site.
- GTMetrics:Analyze your page’s speed performance.
- Moz Local:Check your local listings on Google, Bing, and others.
- XML Sitemaps:Sitemap generator that creates XML & HTML variants.
- W3C validator: Easy-to-use markup validation service.
- Shopify E-commerce Report:Get your free Ecommerce report.
F. FREE IMAGE OPTIMIZERS
- TinyJPG | TinyPNGCompress images.
- Compressor.io:Optimize and compress your images online.
- Kraken:Optimize your images & accelerate your websites.
- ImageOptimizer:Resize, compress and optimize your image files.
- ImageOptim:Makes images take up less disk space & load faster.
- Smush.it:Image optimizer WordPress plugin.
G. 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.
H. COLLECT & SEND EMAILS FOR FREE
- Contact form 7:Famous WordPress plugin to collect email addresses.
- Mailchimp:Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.
- ManyContactsBar:Free contact form sits on top of your website.
- Hello Bar:Get more email subscribers.
- Sumome List Builder:Collect email addresses with light box popover.
- Scroll Triggered Box:Boost your conversion rates — Wordpress only.
- Sumome Scroll Box:Capture more email addresses, politely.
I. FREE SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT + SURVEYS
- WriteRack:The easiest way to blog/tweetstorm on twitter.
- Spruce:Make Twitter ready images in seconds.
- Click To Tweet:Get more shares on your content.
- MyTweetLinks:Increases Twitter traffic.
- Latergram: Easily plan & schedule your Instagram posts.
- WordPress Pin it Button for Images:Add a “Pin It” button.
- SharedCount:Track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more.
- Justunfollow:Follow / unfollow people on Twitter & Instagram.
- SocialRank:Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter.
- Klout:Social media influence score on browser extension.
- Ritetag:Instant hashtag analysis.
- Social Analytics:Interactions for a URL on most social platforms.
- Riffle:Full profile and info on any Twitter user.
- Buffer Free Plan:Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+.
- Bitly:Create, share, and track shortened links.
- Flament:A free beautiful and customizable sharing bar.
- Addthis:Get more shares, follows and conversions.
- Sumome Share:Auto-optimizes your share buttons for max traffic.
- Digg Digg:Your all in one share buttons plugin.
- Disqus:Build a community of active readers & commenters.
- Typeform:Free beautiful online survey & form builder.
- Tally:Create polls in no time.
J. 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.
Design + Code
A. FREE DESIGN RESOURCES
- Freebbble: High-quality design freebies from Dribbble.
- Dribbble:Dribbble search results for “freebie”. An absolute freebie treasure.
- Graphic Burger:Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel.
- Pixel Buddha: Premium and free resources for professional community.
- Premium Pixels:Free Stuff for Creative Folk.
- Fribbble:Free PSD resources by Dribbblers curated by Gilbert Pellegrom.
- Freebiesbug:Latest free PSDs & other resources for designers.
- 365 Psd:Download a free psd every day.
- Dbf:Dribbble & Behance best design freebies.
- Marvel:Free internet resources from designers we love.
- UI Space:High quality hand-crafted Freebies for awesome people.
- Free Section of Pixeden:Free design resources.
- Free Section of Creative Market:Freebies coming out every monday.
- Teehan+Lax:DiOS 8 GUI PSD (iPhone 6).
- Teehan+Lax:iPad GUI PSD.
- Freepik:iFree graphic resources for everyone.
- Tech&All:PSD, Tech News, and other resources for free.
- Tethr:The most beautiful IOS design KIT ever.
B. COLOR PICKERS
- Material Palette:Generate & export your Material Design color palette.
- New Flat UI Color Picker:Best flat colors for UI design.
- Flat UI Colors:Beautiful flat colors.
- Coolors:Super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
- Skala Color:An extraordinary color picker for designers and developers.
- Couleurs:Simple app for grabbing & tweaking colors you see on screen.
- Material UI Colors:Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.
- Colorful Gradients:Gradients automatically created by a computer.
- Adaptive Backgrounds:Extract dominant colours from images.
- Brand Colors:Colors used by famous brands.
- Paletton:The color scheme designer.
- 0 to 255:A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.
- Colour Lovers:Create & share colors, palettes, and patterns.
- Adobe Color CC:Color combinations from the Kuler community.
- Bootflat:Perfect colors for flat designs.
- Hex Colorrrs:Hex to RGB converter.
- Get UI Colors:Get awesome UI colors.
- Coleure:Smart color picker.
- Colllor:Color palette generator.
- Palette for Chrome:Creates a color palette from any image.
C. INSPIRATION
- MaterialUp:Daily material design inspiration.
- FLTDSGN: Daily showcase of the best flat UI design websites and apps.
- Site Inspire:Web design inspiration.
- UI Cloud:The largest user interface design database in the world.
- Moodboard:Build a beautiful moodboard and share the result.
- Crayon:The most comprehensive collection of marketing designs.
- Land-Book:Product landing pages gallery.
- Ocean:A community of designers sharing feedback.
- Dribbble:Show and tell for designers.
- Behance:Showcase & discover creative work.
- Pttrns:Mobile user interface patterns.
- Flat UI Design:Useful board I discovered thanks to Erik.
- Awwwards:The awards for design, creativity and innovation.
- The Starter Kit:Curated resources for developers and designers.
- One Page Love:Resource for one page website inspiration.
- UI Parade:User interface design tools and design inspiration.
- The Best Designs:The best of web design.
- Agile Designers: Best resources for designers & developers.
- Niice:A search engine with taste.
D. FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY
- Stock Up:Best free stock photo websites in one place.
- Pexels:Best free photos in one place.
- All The Free Stock:Free stock images, icons, and videos.
- Unsplash:Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.
- Splashbase:Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.
- Startup Stock Photos:Go. Make something.
- Jay Mantri:Free pics. do anything (CC0). Make magic.
- Moveast:This is a journey of a portuguese guy moving east.
- Travel Coffee Book:Sharing beautiful travel moments.
- Designers Pics:Free photographs for your personal & commercial use.
- Death to the Stock Photo:Free photos sent to you every month.
- Foodie’s Feed:Free food pictures in hi-res.
- Mazwai:Free creative commons HD video clips & footages.
- Jéshoots: New modern free photos.
- Super Famous:Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.
- Picography: Free hi-resolution photos.
- Pixabay:Free high quality images.
- Magdeleine:A free high-resolution photo every day.
- Snapographic:Free stock photos for personal & commercial use.
- Little Visuals: 7 hi-res images in your inbox every 7 days.
- Splitshire:Delicious free stock photos.
- New Old Stock:Vintage photos from the public archives.
- Picjumbo:Totally free photos.
- Life of Pix:Free high-resolution photos.
- Gratisography:Free high-resolution photos.
- Getrefe:Free photos.
- IM Free:A curated collection of free resources.
- Cupcake:A photographer’s treat by Jonas Nilsson Lee.
- The Pattern Library:Free patterns for your projects.
- Public Domain Archive:New 100% free stock photos.
- ISO Republic:High-quality, free photos for creatives.
- Stokpic:Totally free photos.
- Kaboompics:The best way to get free photos.
- Function: Free photo packs.
- MMT:Free stock photos by Jeffrey Betts.
- Paul Jarvis:Free high-resolution photos.
- Lock & Stock Photos:Free stock photos for you.
- Raumrot:Free high-resolution picture.
- Bucketlistly:A free creative common collection of travel photos.
- Some more websites: Free Digital Photos |Morguefile | Public Domain Pictures | Stockvault | ImageFree | Rgbstock |Dreamstime | Free Images | Free Range Stock | Free Photos Bank.
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E. FREE TYPOGRAPHY
- TypeGenius:Find the perfect font combo for your next project.
- Font Squirrel: 100% free commercial fonts.
- FontFaceNinja:Browser extension to find the web fonts a site uses.
- Google Fonts:Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.
- Beautiful Web Type:Best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.
- DaFont:Archive of freely downloadable fonts.
- 1001 Free Fonts:A huge selection of free fonts.
- FontPark:The web’s largest archive of free fonts.
- Font-to-width:Fit pieces of text snugly within their containers.
F. FREE ICONS
- Fontello:Icon fonts generator.
- Flat Icon:A search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons.
- Material Design Icons:750 Free open-source glyphs by Google.
- Font Awesome:The iconic font and CSS toolkit.
- Glyphsearch:Search for icons from other icon databases.
- MakeAppIcon:Generate App Icons of all sizes with a click.
- Endless Icons:Free flat icons and creative stuff.
- Ico Moon: 4000+ free vector icons, icon generator.
- The Noun Project:Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.
- Perfect Icons:A social icon creation tool.
- Material Design Icons: 750 Free open-source glyphs by Google.
- Icon Finder:Free icon section of the website.
- Free Round Icons: Doodle Set | Flat Set | Vector Line Set
- Icon Sweets:60 free vector Photoshop icons.
G. USEFUL STUFF
- UI Names:Generate random names for use in designs and mockups.
- UI Faces:Find and generate sample avatars for user interfaces.
- UI Blurbs:Quick user bios for your mockups.
- Copy Paste Character:Click to copy.
- Window Resizer:See how it looks on various screen resolutions.
Work & Productivity
A. BACKGROUND SOUND TO FOCUS
- Noisli: Background noise & color generator.
- Noizio:Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.
- Defonic:Combine the sounds of the world into a melody.
- Designers.mx:Curated playlists by designers, for designers.
- Coffitivity:Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work.
B. AVOID DISTRACTION
- Self Control: Mac: free application to help you avoid distracting websites.
- Cold Turkey:Windows: temporarily block yourself off of distracting websites.
C. ORGANIZE & COLLABORATE
- Trello:Keeps track of everything.
- Evernote:The workspace for your life’s work.
- Dropbox:Free space up to 2GB.
- Yanado:Tasks management inside Gmail.
- Wetransfer:Free transfer up to 2GB.
- Drp.io:Free, fast, private and easy image and file hosting.
- Pocket:View later, put it in Pocket.
- Mailtoself:An iOS extension to mail notes to yourself from any app.
- List.ly:Discover and create great lists.
- Markticle: Mark your reading progress in articles for later.
D. DIGITAL NOMADS & REMOTE WORKING
- Nomadlist:The best cities to live and work remotely.
- Where Nomads at:Find digital nomads & travelers all around the world.
- Nomad Jobs:The best remote jobs at the best startups.
- What’s It Like:Helping travelers figure out WHEN to go.
Discover & Learn
A. DISCOVER TOOLS & STARTUPS
- Product Hunt:Curation of the best new products, every day.
- Angellist:Where the world meets startups.
- Beta List:Discover and get early access to tomorrow’s startups.
- StartupLi.st:Find. Follow. Recommend startups.
- Startups List:Collections of the best startups in different places.
- Erli Bird:Where great new products are born.
B. BUILD TOGETHER
- Assembly:Co-create new ideas no matter where they are.
- CoFoundersLab:Find a co-founder in any city, any industry.
- Founder2be:Find a co-founder for your startup.
C. LEARN
- Skillshare:Unlock your creativity with free online classes & projects.
- Khan Academy:Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
- Coursera:Free online classes from 80+ top universities & organizations.
- Codecademy:Learn to code interactively, for free.
- How to start a startup: As an Audio Podcast or As Online Course
- Startup Notes:Startup School invites amazing founders to tell their story.
- The How:Learn from entrepreneurs.
- Launch This Year:Guide to help you launch your online business.
- Closed Club:Browse shut-down start-ups & learn why they closed down.
- Startup Talks:A curated collection of startup related videos.
- Rocketship.fm:Learn from successful entrepreneurs each week.
- reSRC.io:All free programming learning resources.
D. NEWSLETTERS THAT DON’T SUCK
- Email1K:A free 30 day course to double your email list.
- Design for Hackers: 12 weeks of design learning, right in your inbox.
- Startup Digest:Personalized newsletter for all things startup in your area.
- Mattermark Daily:Curated newsletter from investors & founders.
- ChargeWhatYou’reWorth:Free course on charging what you’re worth.
- Product Psychology:Lessons on User Behavior.
- UX Newsletter:Tales of researching, designing, and building.
- UX Design Weekly:Best user experience design links every week.
E. USEFUL
- Foundrs:Co-founder equity calculator.
- Ad Spend Calculator:Should my startup pay to advertise?
- HowMuchToMakeAnApp:Calculate the cost of a mobile application.
- App vs. Website:Should you build an app or website?
- Pitcherific: Pitcherific helps you create, train, and improve your pitch.
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