Useful Web Tools for Startups, Developers, and Designers

A guide to great web and desktop software to make you more productive as you develop and design a website.

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1. Useful web Tools for startups Zach Hamed @zhamed zhamed.com
2. Hosting
3. Heroku Free basic hosting great for Rails and Python powered by Git. www.heroku.com
4. Linode $20/month virtual servers with great support and documentation. www.linode.com
5. Amazon Ec2 Easy virtual servers by Amazon: free micro instance for a year. aws.amazon.com/ec2
6. Dreamhost $9/month shared hosting and domain names with great service. www.dreamhost.com
7. CloudFlare Free and easy to setup image, security, and add-on optimization. www.cloudflare.com
8. Text editors
9. Sublime text Tons of add-ons and pretty themes with a great mini-map feature. www.sublimetext.com/2
10. Textwrangler Free software with option to save & edit directly on server. www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler
11. Vim The definitive best terminal-based text editor. www.vim.org
12. .vimrc The definitive best Vim configuration file. www.github.com/tmacwill/vimrc
13. Bootstrap
14. Jetstrap GUI bootstrap editor. www.jetstrap.com
15. Buttons Easily edit the style of Bootstrap’s buttons. http://charliepark.org/bootstrap_buttons
16. Style Bootstrap Easy way to edit parts of the default Bootstrap theme. www.stylebootstrap.info
17. Wrapbootstrap Cheap and beautiful themes for Bootstrap. www.wrapbootstrap.com
18. Bootswatch Free themes for Bootstrap. www.bootswatch.com
19. Font Awesome Beautiful and comprehensive font icon pack. fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome
20. Design & UI/UX
21. Gimp Free Photoshop alternative. www.gimp.org
22. Verify Easy landing page UX testing. www.verifyapp.com
23. Solidify Easy interactive and clickable mockups. www.solidifyapp.com
24. Walkme Add walkthroughs to your site to explain features to users. www.walkme.com
25. Wufoo GUI form builder to make beautiful embeddable or standalone forms. www.wufoo.com
26. Olark Chat with your users. www.olark.com
27. Kuler Find color combinations that look good together. kuler.adobe.com
28. Google webfonts Free fonts by Google. www.google.com/webfonts
29. Typekit Beautiful fonts with a free plan offering. www.typekit.com
30. Sauce Cross-platform UI testing. www.saucelabs.com
31. Browserling Cross-browser UI testing. www.browserling.com
32. Heatma.ps Heatmaps to see what your users are interacting with. www.heatma.ps
33. Google Analytics See who your users are, where they’re from, and what they view. www.google.com/analytics
34. DEV
35. stackoverflow Answers to every bug or error you will ever see. www.stackoverflow.com
36. Jsfiddle Easy testing and sharing of small code chunks. www.jsfiddle.net
37. Hammer.js Javascript library for multitouch gestures. www.eightmedia.github.com/hammer.js/
38. Hammer.js Javascript library for multitouch gestures. www.eightmedia.github.com/hammer.js/
39. Github edu Free Micro plan for students. www.github.com/edu
40. Rubular Easy way to test regular expressions. www.rubular.com
41. Other
42. Uservoice Get feedback from users and manage bugs. www.uservoice.com
43. sequelpro Native Mac Phpmyadmin alternative to interact with MySQL. www.sequelpro.com
44. Launchrock Get a homepage up quickly to help collect email addresses. www.launchrock.com
45. Asana Free task management: great for teams. www.asana.com
46. Flux Tints your screen yellow to make those late-night coding sessions easier. www.stereopsis.com/flux/
47. Thanks!