Tools for building ambitious startups

Avaza is an all-in-one business management platform combining project management, team chat, resource scheduling, time and expense tracking, and quoting and invoicing. It targets professional and client-services teams that want these functions in a single tool.

Alternative toPaymo|TTeamwork|Asana

Awario tracks brand mentions across social media, news, blogs and the web in real time, with sentiment analysis, competitor tracking, influencer discovery and lead generation. It builds custom queries to surface and analyze relevant online conversations.

Alternative toBrand24|Mention|MMeltwater

AWeber is an email marketing platform offering campaigns, autoresponders, drag-and-drop templates, list management, segmentation, landing pages and web forms. It is aimed at small businesses, creators and entrepreneurs.

Alternative toMMailerLite|SendGrid|SSender

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based email service for sending transactional, marketing and bulk emails at scale, plus inbound email handling and deliverability tooling. It bills per email with no monthly minimum.

Alternative toSendGrid|MMailgun|PPostmark

Axure RP is a professional UX prototyping tool for building realistic, functional prototypes with complex interactions, specifications, diagrams and team collaboration, without coding. It also offers a Sketch plugin and import from other design tools.

Alternative toFigma|AXAdobe XD|Sketch

Ballpark is online invoicing, time tracking and lightweight CRM software for agencies and growing service businesses. It turns tracked time into professional invoices, automates payment reminders and manages client projects.

Alternative toFreshBooks|Harvest|BBonsai

Low-fidelity wireframing and interactive prototyping tool that helps teams move from rough ideas to shareable UI mockups without code.

Alternative toFigma|Mockflow|WWhimsical

Browser-based visual editor for creating static, animated HTML5, and rich media ads that can be resized across many standard formats and exported to multiple file types.

Alternative toCanva|CCrello|BBannerflow

Subscription analytics platform that tracks revenue and churn metrics, recovers failed payments, and forecasts financials for recurring-revenue businesses.

Alternative toPProfitWell|ChartMogul|SAStripe Analytics

Project management and team communication platform combining to-dos, message boards, schedules, file sharing, and chat in a single workspace.

Alternative toAsana|TTrello|MMonday.com

Markdown note-taking app for Apple devices supporting text, photos, tables, todos, tags, sketches, and document scanning with iCloud sync.

Alternative toANApple Notes|Notion|OObsidian

AI-powered presentation software that builds polished decks using auto-aligning Smart Slides, AI content generation, templates, and brand controls.

Bench combines bookkeeping software with professional human bookkeepers to handle small business bookkeeping, tax filing, and financial reporting.

Benchmark Email is a drag-and-drop email marketing platform for building and sending emails, managing subscriber lists, creating sign-up forms, and tracking campaign performance.

Alternative toMailchimp|CCConstant Contact|MMailerLite

Bitbucket is a Git code hosting and CI/CD solution for teams, with AI-powered code review, pipelines, and native Jira integration. A self-hosted Data Center edition is also available.

Alternative toGitHub|GitLab

Biteable is an AI-powered online video creation platform that builds professional videos from templates, AI avatars, and voiceovers without production expertise.

Alternative toCanva|CClipchamp|IInVideo

Blinksale is a cloud-based invoicing and payment tool that lets users create and send professional invoices, accept online payments, set up recurring billing, and automate payment reminders.

Blossom is a Kanban-based project management tool for distributed teams, with workflow visualization, stand-up support, performance analytics, and team collaboration.

Bonjoro lets teams record and send personalized video messages to customers at key moments like onboarding, thank-yous, and follow-ups. It also includes a tool for collecting and publishing video testimonials.

Bootstrap is an open-source frontend toolkit for building responsive, mobile-first websites with a prebuilt grid system, UI components, and JavaScript plugins. It is customizable via Sass and CSS variables.

Botify is an enterprise SEO and AI search optimization platform built for large, dynamic websites, offering technical SEO, JavaScript-rendering crawling, and log file analysis at scale. It is aimed at million-page sites that need deep crawl and search visibility insight.

Bots.co is a no-code platform for building, training, and deploying AI chatbots on custom content and documents. It supports GPT-4 powered domain-expert bots that can be embedded into apps and websites.

Alternative toBotsify|CChatbase|CCustomGPT

Botsify is a white-label AI agent and chatbot platform that lets agencies and businesses build and resell conversational AI automation across messaging channels without writing software. It handles support, lead follow-up, scheduling, and workflow automation.

Alternative toBBots.co|MManyChat|Tidio

Botsociety is a design and prototyping tool for chatbots and voice assistants, letting teams mock up and test conversation flows for channels like Messenger, Slack, Alexa, and Google Assistant before building. It exports to development frameworks for hand-off to engineering.

Alternative toVoiceflow|BBotpress|LLandbot