12 Free Or Cheap Web Apps Your Startup Needs Now: "
Running your startup, don't waste time on tasks that apps can help you do -- especially if those apps are free or cheap.
Thankfully, there's a post on the Flexvite blog that put together a list of 12 cheap or free web tools that help you with that.
12 Free Or Cheap Web Apps Your Startup Needs Now →
For Brainstorming, Use Mindmeister.com
When you're brainstorming, it's often overlooked that you need to store and organize your ideas using things such as mind maps.
Mindmeister.com lets you do that with others and share them.
Source: Flexvite blog
Check If The Domain Names You Want Are Available
Nxdom.com searches recently expired domain names for those that start or end with the names you want. More useful than standard whois searches.
Source: Flexvite blog
Ud.com Checks Both Domain Names And Social Networks For Your Name
Also helping you find a name that's unique and useful,
Ud.com checks both domain names and social networks to see if your ideas are already taken.
Source: Flexvite blog
To Make Mockups, Balsamiq Is Your App Of Choice
Balsamiq is a very popular app for making mockups of various apps, and rightfully so. It's fun and easy to use, and saves a lot of time.
Source: Flexvite blog
Vyew.com Is Great For Collaboration And Feedback
Vyew.com is a free collaboration, conferencing and sharing app, that lets you work together remotely, create screenshots together, and is also a great way to get feedback from your users.
Source: Flexvite blog
Pivotal Tracker Is A Great (And Free!) Project Management App
There are plenty of great web-based project management apps out there.
Pivotal Tracker is based around prioritizing between tasks with a drag-and-drop interface. And oh, unlike a lot of project management apps, it's free.
Source: Flexvite blog
For Cheap, Quick And Dirty User Feedback, Use UserTesting.com
UserTesting.com pays users to interact with your app, and records how they interact with it as well as their feedback and user summaries. It's very useful and pretty cheap.
Source: Flexvite blog
Litmus Lets You Test Your App Accross A Range Of Browsers
Litmus is an app that lets you test the way your app looks in a bunch of browsers, and also lets you test what your emails look like. Unlike a lot of apps that have this functionality, it's 100% browser based.
Source: Flexvite blog
For Email Marketing, Flexvite Recommends MadMini
Apparently,
MadMini is 'simple and beautiful email marketing.' Email is a very powerful channel and is often overlooked in this era of SEO and social media. MadMini helps you build your email list and market to it.
We've also heard a bunch of great things about MailChimp, which we would personally recommend.
Source: Flexvite blog
Google's Cloud Is Free At First
Flexvite recommends Google's
App Engine, its cloud hosting service, because it's free until your app gets traction.
Amazon Web Services seems to be the choice of most startups though.
Source: Flexvite blog
Survey.io Lets You Make Surveys To Get Customer Feedback
Customer surveys, either before or after your app is live, are very important.
Survey.io lets you make these easily. Another popular alternative is
Wufoo.
Source: Flexvite blog
Ask500People.com Lets You Poll Random People About Your App
We love this one. Asking 500 random people about your app (or logo, or whatever) might sound like a waste of time but we think it should yield interesting results, at least.
Ask500People.com does this quickly and easily.
Source: Flexvite blog
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