ABDEVLABS

STARTUP TOOLS FOR HACKERS AND ENTREPRENEURS

At AB Dev Labs, we believe in helping out startups, so we put this list of tools together to get
startup founders up and running.


GETTING STARTED

  • THE LEAN STARTUP – The official website of all things Lean Startup presented by Eric Ries.
  • Steve Blank’s Blog – Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and academician who developed the Customer Development Methodology.
  • ARTHUR BIERER’S BLOG – Essential startup industry insights and commentaries from our CEO
  • EQUITY CALCULATOR – Compute Equity for Multiple Startup Co-Founders

BUSINESS MODELS

DEVELOPERS TOOLS

  • WordPress

    WORDPRESS – Allows you to create a free blog in seconds

  • WP Engine

    WPENGINE – One of the best wordpress hosting for your site. Fast and Secure.

  • Theme Forest

    THEMEFOREST – The best place to find WordPress themes

  • Amazon

    AMAZON WEB SERVICES – delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform “in the cloud”.

  • Github

    GITHUB – A web­based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system.

  • Heroku

    HEROKU ­ A cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages

  • Launchrock

    LAUNCHROCK ­ Quickly sets up a Landing Page for your startup

ANALYTICS

  • Google Analytics

    GOOGLE ANALYTICS – free analytics from the big G ­ tracks website traffic, inbound sources and conversions.

  • Mixpanel

    MIXPANEL ­ an events based mobile analytics platform

  • Crazy Egg

    CRAZY EGG – an invaluable heatmap tool

  • Kissmetrics

    KISSMETRICS ­ person­based analytics platform

  • Geckoboard

    GEKOBOARD ­ import your KP metrics intro your own dashboard. Can be used with Mixpanel and Google Analytics.

TEAM COLLABORATION

  • Asana

    ASANA – a web and mobile application designed to improve the way teams communicate and collaborate.

  • Flowdock

    FLOWDOCK ­ a team collaboration app for desktop, mobile & web

  • Basecamp

    BASECAMP – a web­based project­management tool developed by 37signals

  • Freedcamp

    FREEDCAMP ­ a web­based Free Project management tool

ADS

  • GOOGLE ADS – advertise on Google’s platform using keywords and PPC
  • Facebook Ads ­ Sponsored Ads on Facebook
  • BuySellAds ­ Online advertising network
  • Adroll ­ a simple and effective platform for advertising online and retargeting previous website visitors to bring them back to your site.

Presentations

  • Prezi

    Prezi ­ a cloud based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides.

Social Monitoring

  • Social Mention

    Social Mention ­ social media search engine that searches user­generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos

  • Topsy

    Topsy ­ Searches content published on Twitter and the web, sorted by relevance or date.

  • Commun.it

    Communi.it ­ Easy Twitter Management

Social Media Management

  • Sprout Social

    SproutSocial ­ Social Media Management Tools

  • Hootsuite

    Hootsuite ­ social media management system for brand management

Email

  • Mailchimp

    MailChimp ­ easy to use especially for beginners to email marketing

Optimization & A/B Testing

  • Optimizely

    Optimizely ­ website testing tool and editor

  • Apptemize

    Apptimize ­ A/B Testing framework for iOS and Android

  • Bitly

    Bit.ly ­ a URL Shortener with Link Tracking Service