Tools for building ambitious startups

Sales engagement and cold outreach platform that automates personalized email, phone, and social sequences with deliverability tooling to generate leads and book meetings.

Alternative toLLemlist|RReply.io|Outreach

Responsive html email templates to maximize your website sales.

Mandrill is Mailchimp's transactional messaging service for sending time-sensitive, action-triggered emails and SMS such as order confirmations, password resets, and account alerts. It is available as an add-on for Mailchimp users.

Alternative toSendGrid|PPostmark|ASAmazon SES

Marker.io lets teams collect visual website feedback, report bugs with annotations and session replay, and push them straight into project management and issue trackers. It supports QA and user acceptance testing workflows.

Alternative toBugHerd|UUserback|Usersnap

Google's suite of integrated advertising and analytics tools, including Analytics, Tag Manager, and Display & Video 360, for understanding customers and managing campaigns across channels.

Alternative toAMAdobe Marketing Cloud|Matomo|Mixpanel

All-in-one design platform for wireframing, prototyping, user testing, and developer handoff with auto-generated design specs.

Alternative toInVision|Figma|Zeplin

Open-source, privacy-focused web analytics platform offering GDPR-compliant visitor tracking, heatmaps, session recordings, and funnel analysis with full data ownership. Formerly Piwik.

B2B sales and deal intelligence platform that lets you search companies and investors, build prospect lists, and enrich data with 80+ growth and firmographic signals.

Alternative toCCrunchbase|PitchBook|ZZoomInfo

Free, open-source marketing automation platform for email campaigns, drip sequences, lead scoring, contact segmentation, landing pages, and multi-channel campaigns. Built on PHP/Symfony.

Alternative toHubSpot|ActiveCampaign|BBrevo

Professional services automation platform (formerly Mavenlink, now Kantata) combining resource management, project management, financials, and business intelligence for services organizations.

Alternative toWrike|SSmartsheet|WPWorkday PSA

Platform that converts websites and web apps into native iOS and Android apps with native plugins, and publishes them to the App Store and Google Play.

Online publishing platform where anyone can write and read articles, with a paid membership for unlimited ad-free access and a Partner Program that pays writers.

Alternative toSSubstack|Ghost|WWordPress

Work management platform combining Kanban task boards, documentation, and team collaboration with built-in AI, hosted in the EU for GDPR compliance.

Alternative toTTrello|Asana|MMonday.com

Mention is a media monitoring tool that tracks brand mentions, keywords, and conversations across news sites, blogs, forums, and social platforms, surfacing them in a dashboard with filters and alerts.

Alternative toBrand24|MMeltwater|Hootsuite

Merlin Project is professional project management software for Apple devices that combines Gantt charts, Kanban, mind maps, and workload tracking in one data source, with offline capability and no vendor server processing project data.

Meya is a chatbot platform that lets teams build custom conversational experiences using BFML and Python, with a branded web and mobile chat UI, integrations, and human-agent handoff.

Alternative toDDialogflow|Intercom|AAda

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud computing services covering compute, storage, databases, networking, AI, and analytics, billed on usage-based pricing.

MightyScout is an influencer marketing platform for brands and agencies that tracks campaigns, auto-captures Stories and posts, manages creators, and reports on ROI in one place.

Milanote is a visual organization tool that lets you arrange notes, images, links, and files into drag-and-drop boards for brainstorming, mood boards, and project planning, and share them with a team.

Alternative toMiro|Notion|XXtiles

MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool that lets you brainstorm, visualize, and share ideas as collaborative mind maps across the web and mobile devices.

Alternative toXXMind|Miro|CCoggle

Miro is a visual collaboration and online whiteboard platform where teams plan, diagram, run workshops, and build together on a shared infinite canvas, now with AI features built in.

Mixkit, by Envato, is a free library of high-quality stock video footage, music tracks, sound effects, and video templates, royalty-free and without watermarks or mandatory attribution.

Alternative toPPexels|PPixabay|Coverr

Mixpanel is a product analytics platform that tracks user behavior, measures conversions, analyzes retention, and surfaces insights through funnels, session replay, A/B testing, and metric trees.

Alternative toAmplitude|Heap|PPendo

MockFlow is a visual workspace for product teams that combines WireframePro for rapid UI wireframing and developer handoff with IdeaBoard for collaborative whiteboarding and flow mapping.

Alternative toFigma|Balsamiq|Moqups