Tools for building ambitious startups

Microsoft OneNote is a digital note-taking app for capturing, organizing, sharing, and collaborating on notes across notebooks, sections, and pages. It clips web content and integrates with Microsoft 365.

Alternative toNotion|EEvernote|OObsidian

Onroadmap is a planning and roadmap tool that helps remote teams align on priorities and track progress with transparency. It offers collaboration, customizable workflows, real-time updates, and reporting.

Alternative toAha!|Productboard|TTrello

Ontraport combines CRM, email and SMS marketing, automation, landing pages, forms, and payment processing in a single platform. It is built for small businesses that want sales and marketing tools without stitching together multiple suites.

Alternative toCCConstant Contact|EEngageBay|ActiveCampaign

Open Collective is a fundraising and money management platform that lets communities raise and spend funds transparently without needing their own legal entity or bank account. Collectives can join a fiscal host that handles legal and financial backing.

Alternative toZZeffy|Patreon|GSGitHub Sponsors

Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud enterprise Kubernetes platform for building, deploying, and running containerized applications across datacenters, public clouds, and edge. It bundles developer workflows like built-in CI/CD pipelines and source-to-image alongside Kubernetes runtime.

Optimizely is a digital experience platform centered on A/B testing and experimentation across websites, mobile apps, and full-stack products. It also offers content management, marketing, and ecommerce optimization tools as add-ons.

Alternative toVWO|SStatsig|CConvert

Outfunnel keeps customer data in sync across sales and marketing tools and records all marketing engagement like email opens, clicks, form fills, and website visits in your CRM. It also offers lead scoring, web forms, and email drip campaigns for B2B lead generation.

Alternative toHubSpot|ActiveCampaign|Mailchimp

Outreach is a sales engagement and revenue platform that helps teams manage prospecting workflows, automate multichannel sequencing across email, calls, and tasks, and track pipeline activity. It includes AI deal health scoring, opportunity management, and conversation intelligence.

Alternative toSalesloft|AApollo.io|RReply.io

Overflow lets product design teams create interactive user flow diagrams, design presentations, and step-by-step walkthroughs from their existing designs. It supports syncing designs from tools like Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD.

Alternative toMiro|FlowMapp|WWhimsical

Pablo by Buffer is a free web tool for quickly creating social media images by adding text overlays, fonts, and filters to photos. It includes preset platform sizes and a library of royalty-free backgrounds, and connects to Buffer for scheduling.

Alternative toCanva|AEAdobe Express|Snappa

Paddle acts as the merchant of record for digital product businesses, handling payments, sales tax, compliance, billing, and subscriptions across 300+ markets. It covers recurring billing, fraud protection, and invoicing so software companies do not manage tax liability themselves.

Alternative toStripe|FastSpring|LSLemon Squeezy

Pancake is self-hosted software for online invoicing, time tracking, project management, and proposals. You install it on your own server, track time on tasks, and turn it into invoices clients can pay online via Stripe, PayPal, or Authorize.net.

Alternative toFreshBooks|Harvest|BBonsai

Paperform is a form and survey builder that creates forms resembling custom-designed landing pages, with an Excel-style calculation engine, conditional logic, payments, and native AI form generation. It supports e-signatures and thousands of integrations.

Alternative toTypeform|Jotform|FFormstack

SolarWinds Papertrail is a cloud-hosted log management service that consolidates logs in one place with real-time tail, search, alerts, and retention. It helps developers and ops teams diagnose and fix infrastructure and application issues faster.

Paperworks automatically scans your connected email accounts for receipts, invoices, and payments, downloading attachments and saving emails as PDFs. It centralizes financial paperwork from Google, Outlook, and IMAP inboxes.

Pardot, now Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, is a B2B marketing automation platform for lead generation, nurturing, and sales-marketing alignment. It includes email marketing, lead scoring, landing pages, forms, Engagement Studio automation, and deep Salesforce CRM integration.

Alternative toHubSpot|MMarketo|ActiveCampaign

ParseHub is a visual web scraping tool that turns any website into a spreadsheet or API. It runs a full Chromium instance to capture JavaScript-rendered content, supports scheduling and IP rotation, and exports data as Excel, JSON, or via API.

Alternative toOOctoparse|AApify|Import.io

PartnerStack is a partner management platform for B2B SaaS companies to recruit, manage, and activate affiliate, referral, and reseller programs in one place. It handles tracking of clicks, referrals, and conversions plus automatic billing and partner payouts, with access to a large partner marketplace.

Patreon is a membership platform that lets creators collect recurring payments from fans in exchange for exclusive content and perks. Artists, podcasters, YouTubers, and writers use tiered subscriptions, member spaces, video hosting, and newsletters to monetize their audience.

Alternative toKKo-fi|SSubstack|Ghost

Paymentwall is a payments platform offering 150+ local payment methods across 200+ markets via APIs, SDKs, and hosted checkout. It includes the FraudForce fraud prevention system, subscription billing, micropayments, mobile carrier billing, and smart routing.

Alternative toStripe|PayPal|APAmazon Pay

Paymo is a work and project management app for client-facing teams and freelancers that combines task management, time tracking, project planning, invoicing and getting paid in one place.

Alternative toTTToggl Track|Harvest|FreshBooks

PayPal is a global online payments platform that lets businesses accept card, wallet and PayPal payments, send invoices, and get paid online and in person.

Alternative toStripe|Square|AAdyen

PersistIQ is a sales engagement platform that helps small sales teams find prospects and automate personalized outreach across email, calls and tasks while syncing with CRMs to accelerate the pipeline.

Alternative toAApollo.io|Outreach|Reply

PieSync provided real-time, two-way syncing of contacts and customer data between CRMs, Google apps and other tools. It was acquired by HubSpot and sunset, with its technology now powering HubSpot Operations Hub.

Alternative toHOHubSpot Operations Hub|Zapier|UUnito