SAAS Platforms for Startups

200+ curated SaaS tools in 30+ categories across product development, testing, analytics, marketing, payments and more.

Web & App Development

Website & Landing Pages

  • Webflow - Create professional, custom websites in a completely visual canvas with no code.
  • Carrd - Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.
  • Squarespace - Create a customizable website or online store with an all-in-one solution.
  • Typedream - Create a beautiful website in minutes with the Typedream website builder.

No-Code Builders

  • Bubble - A no-code tool that lets you build SaaS platforms, marketplaces and CRMs without code.
  • GlideApps - Make powerful and beautiful apps from spreadsheets such as - Google Sheets, Excel, or Airtable.
  • Softr - Softr turns your Airtable data into a beautiful and powerful website, web app or client portal. Pick a template or start from scratch.

Mobile-App Builders

  • Glideapps - Make powerful and beautiful apps from spreadsheets such as - Google Sheets, Excel, or Airtable.
  • Flutter Flow - Build fully functional apps with Firebase integration, API support, animations, and more in your browser.
  • Adalo - Adalo makes creating apps as easy as putting together a slide deck.

Low-code Builders

  • Netlify - A powerful serverless platform with an intuitive git-based workflow. Automated deployments, shareable previews, and much more.
  • Bildr - Visually build SaaS products, Chrome extensions, and web3 dApps.

Workflow Automation

  • Zapier - Zapier automates your work across 5000+ app integrations.
  • Automate.io - Automate marketing, sales, payments or any business processes in minutes.
  • Make (Previously Integromat) - Integrate 1000s of apps in a no-code visual platform.
  • n8n - A free and source-available workflow automation tool.
  • Pabbly Connect - An automation and integration tool that helps you connect applications to automate manual & routine tasks in real-time.

Internal Web Tooling

  • ReTool - Build internal tools, remarkably fast
  • Bubble - A no-code tool that lets you build SaaS platforms, marketplaces and CRMs without code.
  • DronaHq - Low Code platform to build internal tools rapidly

Forms & Survey Builders

  • Typeform - Create forms, surveys, and quizzes that people enjoy answering
  • Tally.so - Tally is the simplest way to create free forms & surveys.
  • Jot Form - Create professional-looking forms with no coding using Jotform's online Form Builder.
  • Survey Monkey - Create surveys online in minutes. Transform feedback into growth for your business.
  • Google Forms - Use Google Forms to create online forms and surveys with multiple question types.

Cloud Infrastructure

  • AWS - Build, Deploy, and Manage Websites, Apps or Processes On AWS' Secure, Reliable Network.
  • Google Cloud - Meet your business challenges head-on with cloud computing services from Google, including data management, hybrid & multi-cloud, and AI & ML.
  • Microsoft Azure - Invent with purpose, realise cost savings and make your organisation more efficient with Microsoft Azure's open and flexible cloud computing platform.
  • Digital Ocean - Deploy faster & scale easier with an application server that saves your team time & more.

Ecommerce

  • Shopify - No.1 eCommerce Platform for All Businesses.
  • WooCommerce - WooCommerce is a customizable, open-source eCommerce platform built on WordPress.
  • Adobe Commerce (Previously Magento) - Build multi-channel commerce experiences for B2B and B2C customers on a single platform.

Data Warehousing

  • SnowFlake - Snowflake enables you to build data-intensive applications without operational burden
  • Google Bigquery - BigQuery is a serverless, cost-effective and multicloud data warehouse designed to help you turn big data into valuable business insights
  • Amazon Redshift - Fastest, easiest, and most widely used cloud data warehouse

Chatbots

  • Intercom - Helping businesses build strong customer relationships with the Engagement OS.
  • Yellow.ai - A customer experience automation platform enabling enterprises to leverage its NLP engine to build chat and voice bots.
  • Drift - Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
  • Landbot - Landbot is a simple tool to build conversational websites and improve lead conversion rates. The Most Powerful No-Code Chatbot Builder

Spreadsheets & Database Tools

  • Airtable - Airtable is a cloud-base software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases
  • Google Spreadsheets - Use Google Sheets to create and edit online spreadsheets. Get insights together with secure sharing in real-time and from any device.
  • Xano - Build a Powerful, Scalable and Secure Backend for your App using No Code
  • MongoDB - MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database management program.
  • Testing, QA & App Health Management Tools
  • BrowserStack - Instant access to 3000+ browsers and real iOS and Android devices for cross-browser testing.
  • Sentry - Sentry is a crash reporting platform that provides you with "real-time insight into production deployments with info to reproduce and fix crashes".

Content, Marketing & Sales

SEO

  • Semrush - Do SEO, content marketing, competitor research, PPC and social media marketing from just one platform.
  • Ahrefs - Everything you need to rank higher & get more traffic
  • Social Media Management
  • HootSuite - Stay connected across all your social accounts with Hootsuite! Create scroll-stopping content, schedule and publish posts, monitor activity and mentions, and manage comments and messages.
  • Sprout Social - All-in-one social media management platform

CRM

  • Hubspot - Track and analyze sales activity in real-time. Cloud-based inbound marketing software.
  • Salesforce - Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
  • Pipedrive - Pipedrive is the global sales-first CRM and intelligent revenue platform for small businesses
  • Close - A CRM for startups and small businesses with built-in sales communication tools.
  • Bitrix - An all-in-one free platform to manage your team and run your sales, Bitrix24 is designed to be seamlessly integrated into all your business processes.
  • Leadsquared - LeadSquared is a sales execution and marketing automation platform that allows businesses to track, nurture, and manage their leads.

Email Marketing

  • Mailchimp - Win over new and repeat customers by sending emails and automations from a marketing platform that has expert advice built in.
  • Mailmodo - A single platform to create, send and automate email marketing
  • Sendgrid - SendGrid delivers your transactional and marketing emails through the world's largest cloud-based email delivery platform
  • ConvertKit - ConvertKit is the go-to marketing hub for creators that helps you grow and monetize your audience with ease.

Transactional Email Tools

  • Mailersend -MailerSend is a comprehensive tool for your everyday business: send invoices, delivery updates, forgotten password links in seconds, without thinking about it.
  • Sendgrid - SendGrid delivers your transactional and marketing emails through the world's largest cloud-based email delivery platform
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Blogging & Newsletters

  • Medium - Medium is a social publishing platform that is open to all and home to a diverse array of stories, ideas, and perspectives
  • Substack - Substack lets independent writers and podcasters publish directly to their audience and get paid through subscriptions.
  • Ghost - Ghost is a powerful app for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content.
  • Mirror - Decentralised robust publishing platform.
  • Wordcel - Wordcel enables anyone to publish rich articles on the blockchain that are censorship resistant
  • Luma - Luma helps you foster meaningful relationships within your community through events, newsletters, and insights.

Subscriptions

  • Chargebee - A subscription billing and revenue management platform.
  • Paddle - The complete payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS

Community

  • Discord - Discord is the easiest way to talk over voice, video, and text. Talk, chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.
  • Slack - Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It's faster, better organised and more secure than email.
  • Circle.so - The all-in-one community platform for creators & brands
  • Scenes by Avalon - Everything you need to manage, moderate, and monetize your community in one powerful app — with your brand appearance, under your name.
  • Luma - Luma helps you foster meaningful relationships within your community through events, newsletters, and insights.

Design

  • Design & Prototyping
  • Canva - Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.
  • Figma - Figma connects everyone in the design process so teams can deliver better products, faster.
  • Balasmiq - Balsamiq is the company behind Balsamiq Wireframes, the industry-standard low-fidelity wireframing tool.

Analytics

  • Mixpanel - Unlock valuable customer insights to better convert, engage, and retain users with Mixpanel's powerful, self-serve product analytics.
  • Amplitude - Understand user behavior to grow your product. Build better products by turning user data into meaningful insights.
  • LiveSession - Livesession helps you analyze users’ behavior, improve UX, find bugs, and increase conversion rates using session replays, and event-based product analytics.
  • Google Analytics - Get a complete understanding of your customers across devices and platforms. Google Analytics gives you the tools, free of charge, to understand the customer journey and improve marketing ROI
  • Heap - Heap is the leading digital insights platform that combines quantitative and qualitative analytics for a 360 degree view of your customer journey to see what’s really happening.
  • Posthog - PostHog is the all-in-one platform for building better products - with product analytics, feature flags, session recordings, a/b testing, heatmaps, and more.

Customer Data Platforms

  • Segment - Segment has the data governance, control and tools you need to manage your customer data. Segment is the bridge your business needs to give access to critical data to every team.
  • Rudderstack - RudderStack provides a customer data infrastructure solution for developers, data analysts, and product teams.

Payments & Billing

  • Stripe - Stripe is a suite of APIs powering online payment processing and commerce solutions for internet businesses of all sizes
  • Razorpay - The One Stop For Payment Pages, Links, Invoices, Subscription, Payouts, Reminders And More. Fastest checkout experience with 100+ payment modes.

Finance/Accounting & Bookkeeping

  • Brex - Brex offers everything you need to grow your company faster, from cards and capital to built-in spend management software and live support.
  • Airwallex - Financial infrastructure for global businesses
  • Quickbooks - Run Your Business with QuickBooks Accounting Software by Intuit
  • Tally - Tally is a technology & innovation company, delivering business software for SMBs for over 3 decades.

ERP

  • SAP - ERP software for your enterprise – in your industry, from anywhere.
  • Microsoft Dynamics - Streamline processes with Dynamics 365 Business Central, an ERP solution that helps you elevate productivity and improve every customer interaction.
  • Oracle Netsuite - NetSuite ERP is an all-in-one cloud business management solution that helps organizations operate more effectively by automating core processes and providing real-time visibility into operational and financial performance.
  • ERPNext - ERPNext is the world's top 100% open source ERP which supports manufacturing, distribution, retail, trading, services, education, non profits and more

Project Management & Issue Tracking Tools

  • Jira - Plan, track, and manage your agile and software development projects in Jira. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and release great software.
  • Trello - Trello is the ultimate project management tool. Start up a board in seconds, automate tedious tasks, and collaborate anywhere, even on mobile.
  • Linear - Linear helps streamline software projects, sprints, tasks, and bug tracking. It’s built for high-performance teams.
  • Monday.com - Centralize all your work, processes, tools, and files into one Work OS. Connect teams, bridge silos, and maintain one source of truth across your organization.
  • Clickup - Plan, track, and manage any type of work with project management that flexes to your team's needs
  • Paymno - Paymo offers built-in collaboration tools, workflows, transparent time tracking & file proofing.

Productivity & Collaboration Tools

  • Clickup - Save time with the all-in-one productivity platform that brings teams, tasks, and tools together in one place.
  • Notion - Notion is a workspace that adapts to your needs. It's as minimal or as powerful as you need it to be.
  • Coda - Coda brings all your words, data, and teamwork into one powerful doc.
  • Miro - In the office, remote, or a mix of the two, with Miro, your team can connect, collaborate, and co-create in one space no matter where you are.

Documentation & Knowledge Base Tools

  • GitBook - GitBook helps you publish beautiful docs for your users and centralize your teams' knowledge for advanced collaboration.
  • ArchBee - Archbee is a product documentation platform that provides a docs tool for software teams and products.
  • Readme - ReadMe transforms your API docs into interactive hubs that help developers succeed.
  • Docusaurus - ⚡️ Docusaurus will help you ship a beautiful documentation site in no time.
  • Confluence - Confluence is purpose-built for teams that need a secure and reliable way to collaborate on mission-critical projects.
  • Slab - Slab is a knowledge base, pure and simple. It's a best-in-class product that isn't trying to replace the rest of your stack.

Calendar & Scheduling

  • Google Calendar - Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service developed by Google
  • Outlook - A personal information manager web app from Microsoft consisting of webmail, calendaring, contacts, and tasks services.
  • Calendly - Calendly is the modern scheduling platform that makes “finding time” a breeze.
  • Cal.com - Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.
  • Cron - Cron is the next-generation calendar for professionals and teams

Internal Communications

  • Discord - Discord is the easiest way to talk over voice, video, and text. Talk, chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.
  • Slack - Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It's faster, better organised and more secure than email.
  • Mattermost - Mattermost is a secure, open source platform for communication, collaboration, and workflow orchestration across tools and teams.
  • Microsoft Teams - Chat, call, and share video simply from one place that helps you stay close to all the people in your life.
  • Google Chat - Google Chat is an intelligent and secure communication and collaboration tool, built for teams.

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