Our Favorite Tools as Indiehackers
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Here is our list of favorite cool finds that help, inspire, and keep us productive as we work on our favorite logo design tool.
Design
Pleasing the eye and heart!
Blush Illustration Creator
Tell your story with illustrations. Easily create and customize stunning illustrations with collections made by artists across the globe.
Figma Snacks
A playlist of 20-sec video tutorials about Figma.
Typogram’s Brand Personality Workshop
Our very own Brand Personality Workshop helps you jumpstart the branding process. Available in both paper and digital versions, you can use this self-pace workshop packet to identify the brand personality for your company and start your brand design journey.
Bravo Studio
The fastest mobile app-building platform. Convert your designs into native apps, instantly.
Shipixen
Time is money, and with Shipixen, you can build and launch a landing page or blog in minutes, not days. Thanks to pre-built templates and a powerful component system, creating a stunning, functional site is as simple as selecting what you need and customizing it for your brand. But Shipixen isn’t just about speed. It also offers advanced SEO features that help your site rank higher, ensuring that it gets the visibility it deserves.
Marketing
Getting attention for your work!
Marketing Strategy Generator
The Marketing Strategy Generator is an AI-powered tool designed to help solopreneurs and small business owners develop effective marketing strategies
Map of Reddit
Map of Reddit provided a fun way for founders to find thriving communities on Reddit. I see Reddit as a great place to find potential customers because it is interest-based.
Rad Letters
Rad Letters is a newsletter directory. You can discover newsletters from others or post your own. A pro tip: they have a beta program to match newsletter creators for cross-promo, which is a great growth hack technique.
The Micro SaaS Guide
A SaaS founder scrapped the HN database and gathered the top 1000 posts with “SaaS” as a keyword. If you are looking for content ideas or see what HN folks are interested in, this might be an excellent place to start.
SEO Snippets
A list of bite-sized video content created by the “officials” at the “Search Bureau,” aka. Google.
Subdomain vs. Subdirectory: Which Is Better for SEO?
In this guide, we want to clarify the confusion and help settle the debate about 'subdomain vs. subdirectory.' We'll dive deep into the technical SEO considerations that you need to take and outline the instances when they make the most sense to use.
Dev Tools
Speeding up your workflow!
GitLens
I had been using the default in-the-box “Git” feature in VS Code. Recently I needed to make some advanced code comparisons, and that is when I found out why people are crazy about this GitLens plugin!
VS Code in Browser
VSCode for the Web enables developers to use a lighter-weight version of VSCode directly in the browser without having to install it on their PCs.
PageSpeed Insights
The PageSpeed Insights tool analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Google uses real-world field data from Chrome browsers to examine page speed.
Code faster with AI completions
Push your productivity with the power of Tabnine’s all-language AI-assisted code completion
GitHub Sponsors
Get sponsored for your open-source projects.
Bit
Bit is a standard infrastructure for components. It’s everything your teams need to enjoy autonomous development, faster releases, effortless consistency, and collaboration at scale.
GatsbyAI
Fancy chatGPT with UI, also contains handy apps like image generation, translate and transcribe.
Food for the Brain
Making us smart!
Work Log
I have been following this work log on and off for 2 or 3 years. I always find something relatable in its writings, either a struggle that I was having or a feeling that I share, especially now as a founder.
Slowww Newsletter
I recently subscribed to this newsletter, and I have been enjoying it. It shares content (articles and arthouse video clips) about feeling present, appreciating life, and being more mindful.
Low Code Development: A Short History
This helpful article goes over the history of Low Code with examples from the past. I learned a lot from this article -- Did you know that low-code goes three decades back?
How I Earn a Living Selling My Open-Sourced Software
I find this article very inspiring as an entrepreneur. It gives me motivation and direction to pursue with my own business. Hope it can do that to you as well!