Top 100 Tools for Product Managers
Top 100 Tools for Product Managers
IDEA MANAGEMENT AND SYNDICATION
•Medium: Everyone’s stories and ideas.
•Javelin: Test your startup idea without wasting time or money.
•Germ.io: Get from idea to execution.
•Skitch by Evernote: Your ideas become reality faster.
SURVEYS and A/B TESTING
•Typeform: Free beautiful online survey & form builder.
•Qualaroo: Get feedback from users with an interactive survey widget.
•Optimizely: One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.
•Tally: Create polls in no time.
LEARN
•Coursera: Free online classes from 80+ top universities & organizations.
•Khan Academy: Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
•Skillshare: Unlock your creativity with free online classes & projects.
•Codecademy: Learn to code interactively, for free.
•How to Start a Startup: As an Audio Podcast or As Online Course
•Startup Notes: Startup School invites amazing founders to tell their story.
•ThePitch (Podcast): Where founders pitch their startups to investors.
•Pricing Course: A free 9 day course on charging what you’re worth.
•GrowthHackers: Exactly what it sounds like.
EMAIL MANAGEMENT
•Mailchimp: Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.
•ManyContactsBar: Free contact form sits on top of your website.
•Hello Bar: Get more email subscribers.
•Sumome List Builder: Collect email addresses with light box popover.
•Sumome Scroll Box: Capture more email addresses, politely.
ORGANIZE & COLLABORATE
•Trello: Keeps track of everything.
•Evernote: The workspace for your life’s work.
•Dropbox: Free space up to 2GB.
•Slack: Free for unlimited users with few limited features.
•Google Hangouts: Bring conversations to life with photos, emoji and group video calls.
•Join.me: Free screen sharing and video/phone calls.
•FreeConferenceCall: Decent conference call quality (even international) for $0.
SUPPORT AND ENGAGE YOUR CUSTOMERS
•Intercom: A fundamentally new way to communicate with your customers.
•Zendesk: Brings companies and their customers closer together.
MOBILE
•Mobile Action: Killer app store optimization and analytics platform. All you need in addition to iTunes tracking to understand your app under <100k downloads.
•Parse: A free push notification service (up to 1MM messages/month) to integrate into your app.
•Apptentive: The tools you need to listen to, engage with, and retain your mobile customers in-app.
ANALYTICS AND EVENT TRACKING
•Mixpanel: Define and track events, segments, and funnels quickly and easily.
•Heap: Mixpanel without any development work needed to create events.
•Google Analytics: Your go-to free platform for tracking site visitors, mapping behaviors, and creating live dashboards.
FIND CONTENT AND TRACK TRENDS
•Buzzsumo: Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.
•Feedly: Compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize & share.
•Google Trends: A new way of displaying trending searches.
SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS
•SimilarWeb: Analyze website statistics for any domain.
•Open Site Explorer by Moz: A comprehensive tool for link analysis.
•Ahrefs: Site explorer & backlink checker.
•Quick Sprout: Complete analysis of your website.
•SEO Site Checkup: SCheck your website’s SEO problems for free.
•SERPs Rank Checker: Free keyword rank & SERP checker.
•Google Pagespeed Insights: Check the performance of your site.
•Pingdom: Test the load time of a site.
SCREENSHOTS/MOCKUPS OF APPS AND WEBSITES
•Dunnnk: Beautiful mockups.
•InstaMockup: Create beautiful screenshots of your app or website.
IMAGE EDITORS
•Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.
•Social Image Resizer Tool: Create optimized images for social media.
SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT
•Pagemodo: Everything you need for a powerful Social Media presence.
•SocialRank: Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter.
•WriteRack: The best way to tweetstorm.
•MyTweetLinks: Increases Twitter traffic.
•Latergramme: Easily plan & schedule your Instagram posts.
•Justunfollow: Follow / unfollow people on Twitter & Instagram.
•Ritetag: Instant hashtag analysis.
•Bitly: Create, share, and track shortened links.
•Addthis: Get more shares, follows and conversions.
•App Review Monitor: App reviews delivered to Slack and your inbox.
•Presskit Generator: Generate a Press Kit for your iOS App for free.
DESIGN RESOURCES AND INSPIRATION
•Figma: Design collaboratively, build prototypes, and leverage best-in-class integrations
•Freebbble: High-quality design freebies from Dribbble.
•Google Fonts: Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.
•The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.
•Premium Pixels: Free stuff for creatives.
•Fribbble: Free PSD resources by Dribbblers curated by Gilbert Pellegrom.
•SketchAppResources: Free graphical resources.
•Squarespace Free Logo: You can download free low-res version for free.
•Site Inspire: Web design inspiration.
•Land-Book: Product landing pages gallery.
•Icon Finder: Free icon section of the website.
FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY
•Stock Up: Best free stock photo websites in one place.
•Pexels: Best free photos in one place.
•All The Free Stock: Free stock images, icons, and videos.
•Unsplash: Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.
•Startup Stock Photos: Go. Make something.
•Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.
•Picography: Free hi-resolution photos.
•Pixabay: Free high quality images.
QA AND TESTING
•Window Resizer: See how your site looks on various screen resolutions.
•CrossBrowserTesting: Test your site on the same browsers and devices your customers use.
DISCOVER TOOLS & STARTUPS
•Product Hunt: Curation of the best new products, every day.
•Launching Next: Get the best new startups delivered to your inbox daily.
•Inbound: Get trending inbound marketing info in your inbox.
•AngeLlist: Where the world meets startups.
•Beta List: Discover and get early access to tomorrow’s startups.
NEWSLETTERS THAT DON’T SUCK
•Startup Digest: Personalized newsletter for all things startup in your area.
•Tech.co: A refreshing alternative to TechCrunch.
•TheSkimm: An edgy update on what happened in the last 24 hours.
OUTSOURCING
•Elance: Now apparently called UpWork.
•Guru: Find and hire talented freelancers for anything.
•Gun.io: Find the development help you need. You even get a “Hacker Ambassador” to show you the way.
LEGAL
•CooleyGo: Incorporation Packages and other free legal documents:
•Kiss: Free legal docs for startup founders and investor.
•Docracy: An open collection of free legal documents.
•Shake: Create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds. Free for personal use.