Tools for building ambitious startups

BQE CORE is an all-in-one platform for project accounting, billing, time tracking, and resource planning, built for A&E firms.

Braintree is a full-stack payment gateway owned by PayPal that lets businesses accept cards, digital wallets, PayPal, and Venmo through clean SDKs and a GraphQL API, with support for subscription billing and a payment vault.

Alternative toStripe|PayPal|AAdyen

Brand24 is an AI-powered social listening platform that monitors brand mentions across social media, news, blogs, forums, podcasts, and reviews, with real-time sentiment analysis, reputation tracking, and competitive insights.

Alternative toBrandMentions|Mention|BBrandwatch

BrandBuilder is an AI-powered brand and logo design tool that generates custom visual identities including logos, color palettes, typography, patterns, and a downloadable brand book.

Alternative toBBrandCrowd|Canva|Looka

BrandCrowd's Logo Maker creates logos from a library of 380,000+ professionally designed templates based on your business name and industry, plus 50+ design tools for business cards, social posts, and other brand assets.

Alternative toLooka|Canva|HHatchful

BrandMentions is an AI-powered social listening platform that monitors brand mentions across the web and social media, analyzing sentiment, tracking competitors, and sending real-time notifications for reputation management.

Alternative toBrand24|Mention|BBrandwatch

Buffer is a social media management platform for creating, scheduling, publishing, analyzing, and engaging with content across multiple social channels from one dashboard.

Alternative toHootsuite|Later|SSSprout Social

BugHerd is a visual feedback and bug tracking tool that lets clients and teams annotate websites by pointing and clicking, automatically capturing screenshots and technical details as actionable tasks.

Alternative toMMarker.io|MMarkup.io|Usersnap

Bugsee is a crash reporting and error monitoring tool that records video, network traffic, and console logs leading up to bugs and crashes, helping developers debug issues without reproducing them.

Alternative toBugsnag|Instabug|Sentry

BugSnag is a mobile and web application monitoring platform that captures crashes, tracks performance bottlenecks, and traces requests to help teams find and fix issues quickly.

Alternative toSentry|Rollbar|RRaygun

BuildFire is a no-code mobile app builder that lets users create, customize, publish, and manage native iOS and Android apps plus progressive web apps using a plugin marketplace.

BuiltWith is a technology intelligence platform that detects the web technologies a website uses, supporting lead generation, market analysis, and sales intelligence across more than 120,000 technologies.

Alternative toWappalyzer|DDatanyze|SSimilarTech

Bulma is a free, open source CSS framework based on Flexbox that provides ready-to-use responsive components for building web interfaces without writing custom CSS.

Alternative toBootstrap|TCTailwind CSS|FFoundation

Burst by Shopify is a free stock photo platform offering thousands of high-resolution, royalty-free images shot by a global community of photographers. It integrates with Shopify stores and offers curated business starter kits.

BuzzSumo is a content research and media monitoring platform that surfaces top-performing content, trending topics, influencers, and brand mentions. It supports content analysis, competitor monitoring, and configurable alerts.

Alternative toSEMrush|Ahrefs|MPMoz Pro

Bynder is an enterprise digital asset management (DAM) platform that acts as a system of record for content, with brand guidelines, creative templates, and asset distribution across channels. It is used by thousands of global brands.

Calendly is a scheduling automation platform that lets people book meetings without back-and-forth emails by sharing availability links. It syncs with calendars and connects to video conferencing, CRM, and payment tools.

CannedEmails is a minimal website offering prewritten email templates for common scenarios like apologizing for a bug, applying for a position, or asking a question. Templates can be copied as plaintext or sent directly.

Alternative toHCHoneyBook canned emails|DDubsado|Spark

Canny captures, organizes, and prioritizes customer feedback so product teams can decide what to build. It collects feature requests, manages roadmaps, and announces releases in one place.

Alternative toFFeaturebase|ProductBoard|UUserVoice

Canva is a drag-and-drop design tool for creating graphics, presentations, videos, social posts, and documents from templates. It serves both non-designers and teams with AI tools, brand kits, and content scheduling.

Alternative toAEAdobe Express|Figma|VVistaCreate

Capsule is a cloud-based CRM that consolidates sales pipelines, contact management, projects, tasks, and workflow automation in one system. It targets small and medium businesses that want an easy-to-use CRM.

Alternative toHubSpot|PPipedrive|ZCZoho CRM

Carrd is a builder for simple, fully responsive one-page websites such as personal profiles, landing pages, and portfolios. It requires no coding and offers a free tier plus low-cost Pro plans.

Alternative toWebflow|WWix|SSquarespace

Celoxis is a project portfolio management platform that combines project planning, resource management, time tracking, intake, and reporting. It targets PMOs and larger organizations managing multiple projects.

Alternative toWrike|MMonday.com|MPMicrosoft Project

Chanty is a team communication app combining instant messaging, voice and video calls, task management, and file sharing in one workspace. It targets small and medium businesses looking for a simple Slack alternative.

Alternative toSlack|MTMicrosoft Teams|GCGoogle Chat