Tools for Practical Founder
I'm working on a collection of FREE tools for practical-minded founders with the aim of making tedious tasks easier. Here is my plan for now:
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Pitch Validation Tool - a tool to build a simple pitch page, record visits and people's interest in the product
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Startup Playbook - a persistent checklist of activities essential for every product with idea validation, customer interviews, SEO and on
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Social Media Monitor - a tool to find and engage in active conversations relevant for your product on Reddit, IndieHacker, HackerNews, ...
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Connection Builder - a tool to record and organize social media profiles of potential customers, influencers, journalists, investors with a goal of establishing communication and building strategic relationships.
What else would you find useful (something like a simple mailmerge for example?) Thanks for any feedback!
There’s still no perfect solution for a blog / newsletter / comment system. @wentin has made three newsletters on the topic with no solution in sight 😅
Interesting. I'm not familiar with this problem but will take a look. Thank you for the pointer. Much appreciated!
I have dreamed a perfect soluiton (for my use case) that I will cover in Part 4 (lol I know, the complaints get loooong). There is none currently on the market. Everything feels like a compromise of this or that.
In case anyone is interested, here goes the latest from my "In Pursuit of The Perfect Blog" series: https://build.typogram.co/p/in-pursuit-of-the-perfect-blog-part-917?r=4tfkd
Oh, this is useful and fun. Subscribed. I'll keep an eye on your blog and the problem in general!
Is it a startup idea? if so then will it be lunch?
More like a collection of tools I'm building for myself. I'll be putting them up as they complete. First one should be out within a week.
There is 4 products worth of stuff here. Isn't it easier to focus on just one?
Correct. Yet I was looking to build something useful but very basic. Just enough functionality to get by in the beginning. I assume founders will graduate to a mature commercial products once they need more bells and whistles.
Basic customer feedback tracking would be nice.
I'm building a comprehensive customer feedback / tracking platform which will have a free basic plan. Might be something you're looking for? https://moonshot.so
Can you give an example of similar commercial product?
Asknicely has customer feedback tool
I'll take a look. Thanks for the pointer.
Nice
Great list — totally keen to check out 3 and 4 👍
Thx. Will keep you posted.
Hi,
If you are giving all of that for free, keep in mind that giving support to users will take many of time. So if the tool is for free, you'll spend time to support for free.
I'm just saying, because many ppl create tools for free, and then, abandon the tool because they don't have time to support their own tool (which is understandable because need money in life :)
Good luck
Yeah, very good point... I hope it will be easier to invest time if I see people using it. Thanks!