Tools for building ambitious startups

UptimeRobot is an uptime monitoring service that continuously checks websites, APIs, servers, and endpoints and sends real-time alerts when they go down. It includes SSL and cron monitoring, incident management, and customizable status pages.

Lyssna, formerly UsabilityHub, is a user research platform for usability testing, surveys, interviews, and participant recruitment. It offers a panel of 690,000+ verified participants and fast actionable insights for design and product teams.

Alternative toUserTesting|MMaze|LLookback

Fathom Analytics is a privacy-focused, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative that tracks website traffic and events in real time. It is lightweight, GDPR and CCPA compliant, and embeds with a single line of code.

Alternative toGAGoogle Analytics|PPlausible|Matomo

User.com is an all-in-one marketing automation and customer engagement platform combining CRM, email and SMS campaigns, live chat, chatbots, popups, and push notifications. It runs personalized omnichannel workflows powered by real-time website tracking.

Alternative toHubSpot|ActiveCampaign|Intercom

UserGuiding is a no-code platform for creating in-app onboarding flows, interactive tours, feature adoption campaigns, surveys, and self-service support. It helps product teams improve user activation without engineering work.

Userbrain is a remote user testing platform that recruits real testers to use your website, app, or prototype while recording their sessions. Teams watch the videos and receive automated reports to find usability issues.

Alternative toUserTesting|MMaze|LLyssna

Userlike, now part of Lime Technologies, is a customer messaging and AI agent platform that combines live chat with channels like WhatsApp, email, SMS, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. It supports human-AI collaboration and automated customer service workflows.

Alternative toIntercom|LiveChat|Tidio

Usersnap is a user feedback platform for collecting, organizing, and analyzing feedback across the product lifecycle. It supports visual bug reports with screenshots, in-app surveys, feature requests, and AI-assisted insights.

Alternative toMMarker.io|BugHerd|Canny

A customer insight platform that gathers feedback from real people on digital products, experiences, and content through remote user testing and research.

Alternative toMMaze|LLookback|Hotjar

Unifies fragmented customer feedback signals from your tech stack into revenue-weighted insights, providing a centralized source of truth for product decisions.

Alternative toAha|Productboard|Canny

A free SEO analysis tool that audited technical SEO, keyword usage, content quality, security, and user experience. The tools are now retired.

A small business management platform combining CRM and client management, online scheduling, payment collection, invoicing, and automated marketing in one place.

Validates email addresses and cleans mailing lists by detecting invalid, risky, and undeliverable addresses including spam traps, disposable emails, and typos to reduce bounce rates.

A multi-channel marketing automation platform for sending personalized email, SMS, and push notifications with a visual journey builder, A/B testing, and user segmentation.

A subscription-based stock media platform offering unlimited downloads of video clips, motion backgrounds, templates, music, and images for video production.

A free library of high-quality stock videos that can be downloaded and used for personal and commercial projects without attribution, with a developer API available.

Alternative toPPixabay|UUnsplash|Coverr

Vidyard is a business video platform for recording, hosting, and sharing videos to increase leads, accelerate sales pipeline, and engage customers, with analytics and CRM integrations.

Alternative toLoom|Wistia|CClaap

A template-based viral and referral marketing platform that helps businesses acquire customers through word-of-mouth campaigns like referrals, giveaways, and waitlists.

Alternative toReferralCandy|GGrowSurf|FFriendbuy

An AI-powered visual content platform for building interactive HTML5 presentations, infographics, and branded visual content with templates, animation, and design tools.

Alternative toCanva|PPrezi|PPiktochart

An AI-powered visual content platform for creating branded presentations, infographics, reports, documents, and other visual content with templates and design tools.

Alternative toCanva|PPiktochart|PPrezi

A customer success platform that unifies customer data, health scoring, NPS surveys, automation, and team collaboration to help B2B SaaS teams drive retention and growth.

A platform for building, launching, and scaling AI agents and conversational apps across web chat, voice, and phone for customer support, lead generation, and automation.

A digital experience optimization platform offering A/B testing, behavior analytics, personalization, and feature experimentation across web, mobile, and server-side.

Alternative toOptimizely|ATAdobe Target|KKameleoon

Open source editor plugins that automatically track coding time, AI-generated code, and developer productivity metrics across 100+ IDEs, editors, and terminals.