Tools for building ambitious startups

An error tracking and monitoring platform that centralizes exceptions, groups recurring errors, tracks deploys, and sends real-time alerts so teams can triage and fix production bugs faster.

Alternative toSentry|Datadog|LogRocket

An affordable APM for Ruby on Rails that monitors application performance, exceptions, background jobs, and server metrics, with deployment tracking and notifications. Includes an open-source gem for local profiling.

Alternative toSAScout APM|New Relic|AAppSignal

Ryver is a team collaboration app that combines group chat, task management, and voice and video calls in a single workspace. It organizes work into forums, teams, and direct messages with built-in topics and tasks.

Alternative toSlack|MTMicrosoft Teams|MMattermost

Hotjar is a product experience and behavior analytics tool that shows how visitors interact with a website through heatmaps, session recordings, surveys, and feedback. It helps teams understand user behavior and improve conversions.

Alternative toCContentsquare|FullStory|MCMicrosoft Clarity

Salesforce is a cloud-based CRM platform that unifies sales, service, marketing, and analytics with AI and a shared customer data model. It helps companies manage leads, accounts, pipelines, and customer relationships at scale.

Alternative toHubSpot|MDMicrosoft Dynamics 365|ZCZoho CRM

Salesloft is a revenue orchestration platform that combines multi-channel sales cadences, conversation intelligence, deal management, and AI-driven workflow prioritization. It helps sales teams run personalized outreach and manage the full sales cycle.

Alternative toOutreach|AApollo.io|RReply.io

SalesSeek is a cloud-based CRM that unites sales and marketing tools, including visual sales funnels, contact management, marketing automation, and email marketing. It is aimed at growth-focused businesses that want pipeline and marketing in one place.

Alternative toHubSpot|Salesforce|PPipedrive

Getscope is a visual project collaboration and management tool that supports to-do lists, kanban boards, Gantt charts, and Scrum in one workspace. It adds team communication, document sharing, time tracking, and resource management.

Alternative toAsana|TTrello|Mmonday.com

Scoro is an all-in-one work management platform that combines project management, time tracking, billing and invoicing, CRM, and reporting. It is aimed at professional services firms and agencies that want operations and finances in one tool.

Alternative toTTeamwork|PProductive|ClickUp

Scraper is a free Chrome extension that extracts data from web pages and copies it into a spreadsheet or Google Docs. It lets users select page elements and pull structured data using XPath or jQuery selectors without writing a full scraper.

Zyte, formerly Scrapinghub, is a web scraping platform offering an all-in-one API that handles proxies, anti-bot unblocking, JavaScript rendering, and AI-powered data extraction. It scales scraping operations for developers and data teams on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Scrapy is a free, open source web crawling and scraping framework for Python. It provides an asynchronous engine, CSS and XPath selectors, and pluggable spiders, middlewares, and pipelines for extracting and exporting data at scale.

Snagit by TechSmith is screen capture and recording software for Windows and macOS. It captures images and video with region, window, and fullscreen capture, plus annotation, GIF creation, webcam overlay, and audio narration.

ScreenPal, formerly Screencast-o-matic, is a screen recording and video editing tool that captures screen, webcam, or both, then edits and hosts the videos. It also includes image capture for visual communication and tutorials.

Alternative toLoom|SSnagit|CCamtasia

ScreenSpace is a visual storytelling platform that turns demos, videos, and screenshots into immersive, interactive web experiences, including 3D device videos. It helps go-to-market teams engage and convert buyers with story-driven product content.

SE Ranking is a cloud-based SEO platform offering keyword rank tracking, site audits, keyword and competitor research, and backlink monitoring. It includes white-label and scheduled reporting aimed at marketers and digital agencies.

Alternative toSemrush|Ahrefs|MMoz

SeekMetrics is a free social media analytics tool for Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. It provides historical data, growth tracking, account insights, and a hashtag generator with exportable reports.

Alternative toSBSocial Blade|Hootsuite|SSSprout Social

Twilio Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that collects, unifies, and routes customer data from any source to hundreds of analytics, marketing, and engagement tools. It also offers identity resolution, audiences, and journeys.

Sellfy is an ecommerce platform that lets creators build a storefront to sell digital products, physical goods, subscriptions, and print-on-demand items with zero transaction fees. It includes email marketing, discounts, and upsell tools.

Alternative toGumroad|Shopify|PPayhip

Semrush is an online visibility platform offering SEO, content marketing, competitor research, paid advertising, and social media tools. It covers keyword research, rank tracking, site audits, and backlink analysis for marketers and agencies.

Alternative toAhrefs|MMoz|SE Ranking

SendGrid is a cloud email delivery service that handles transactional and marketing email at scale through an email API and SMTP relay, managing infrastructure, deliverability, and analytics. It is owned by Twilio.

Sendible is a social media management platform for scheduling content, engaging audiences, monitoring conversations, and reporting across multiple networks. It is built for agencies and brands managing many accounts.

Alternative toHootsuite|Buffer|SSSprout Social

Brevo (formerly SendinBlue) is an all-in-one platform combining email and SMS marketing, CRM, and marketing automation for businesses. It also offers transactional email via API and SMTP.

Alternative toMailchimp|ActiveCampaign|MMailerLite

Sendy is a self-hosted email newsletter application that sends bulk email through Amazon SES at very low cost. It is sold as a one-time license and runs on your own PHP and MySQL hosting.