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.
Mixkit
This website includes free templates for animations in various file formats and stock footage for videos and many other free assets, like music, which is handy for podcasting.
Bravo Studio
The fastest mobile app-building platform. Convert your designs into native apps, instantly.
Marketing
Getting attention for your work!
SaaS Headline Formulas
Use these formulas to create a clear and compelling headline for your product and convert more traffic.
Map of Reddit
Similar to last week’s recommendation redditlist.io, 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.
Cronnit
If you do a lot of Reddit posting, this handy free tool allows you to schedule posts ahead of time. One thing you have to be mindful of is that this service doesn’t include “flairs,” aka. Reddit tags. If your subreddit requires having flairs, you may have to do it manually. You can schedule up to five posts per day, and you can contact the developer to increase this limit.
Redditlist
Reddit’s home page is fun, but subreddits are more fun and a great place to find new audiences. redditlist.io provides a great way to discover subreddits by category.
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.
PH Launch Resource
This is an excellent website with tweets threads about tips on and success stories of launching on Product Hunt. I learned the most from this tweet, which is also on the site.
SEO Snippets
A list of bite-sized video content created by the “officials” at the “Search Bureau,” aka. Google.
Google Search Console
Official toolings and guides from Google to help you measure your site’s Search traffic and performance, fix issues, and make your site shine in Google Search results.
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 — Git supercharged
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.
Retool for Startups
Use Retool free for a year to quickly build admin panels, dashboards, and internal tools without losing focus.
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.
Deploy Empathy Newsletter
Deploy Empathy is a helpful newsletter about customer interviews. If you struggle with asking the right questions and keeping a conversation with your customers, this is a great resource.
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!