A Growth Hackers Toolbox

Marketing

https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/ - Research your Buyer Persona with data from Google, very powerful stuff.

https://upviral.com - Viral referral platform.

https://www.xandr.com - Platform for data-driven TV marketing.

https://hootsuite.com - All social media accounts in one place, plus social listening.

https://www.adroll.com - Create ads for different platforms in one place.

https://www.integrate.com - Account Based Marketing, following prospects across the web.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CFXJH7M - The famous Sean Ellis’s product/market fit questionnaire.

https://www.eggradients.com/startup-directory - 100 places to submit your startup to.

Content/Ad Creation

https://hemingwayapp.com/ - Helping you write straightforward texts.

https://www.copy.ai/ - AI writing blog posts, headlines, slogans, etc. Works surprisingly well.

https://adespresso.com/ads-examples - See what FB-ads competitors are creating. It’s also a tool where you can create and publish Facebook, Instagram, and Google ads in one place, along with statistics.

https://www.facebook.com/ads/library - Competitors' ads on Facebook.

https://www.spyfu.com - See which AdWords your competitors are using.

https://marketingexamples.com/ - What it sounds like!

https://kickstartsidehustle.com/brainiac-list/ - Psychological principles to leverage in marketing.

https://invideo.io/ - Thousands of video templates.

https://nealrs.github.io/25Headlines/email.html - Test length of ad titles.

https://coschedule.com/headline-analyzer - Analyzes headlines.

https://imgur.com - Viral images and GIFs.

https://bitly.com - Shorten URLs.

https://www.wishpond.com/social-promotions - Templates for engaging promotions.

https://www.typeform.com - Best survey tool I've ever used, comes with many neat integrations.

https://styleguide.mailchimp.com/writing-principles - Mailchimp's guidelines for how they create content.

https://www.marketo.com - Landing pages, webinars, email marketing, custom content, and campaign calendars for bigger companies.

https://www.hubspot.com - Similar to Marketo, for smaller companies.

Analysis

https://sites.google.com/a/growthhackers.se/gh-demo-dashboard - An example of a nice dashboard.

https://vidiq.com - Analyze YouTube videos in Chrome.

https://datastudio.google.com - Present data from, e.g., Google Analytics or Google Search Console.

https://www.hotjar.com - See how users behave on your website.

https://mixpanel.com - My favorite product analytics platform.

https://oribi.io - Simplified and clearer version of Google Analytics, costly though.

CRM

https://www.sinch.com - SMS, Email, WhatsApp, etc. Probably best for SMS.

https://www.intercom.com - Platform which can be integrated easily as a chat on a website, app, etc. Supports email, chat, etc. Great for smaller companies.

https://www.mail-tester.com - Test email delivery (DKIM, SPF check, etc.)

https://mailchimp.com - Great email marketing platform.

https://www.mandrill.com - Great transactional email platform, e.g., forgot password emails.

https://www.braze.com - Powerful platform for advanced CRM, costly but awesome.

Sales

https://www.leadboxer.com - Identify anonymous visitors to your website, get emails, company names, first names, etc.

https://www.snitcher.com - A cheaper variant of Leadboxer.

https://zapier.com/help/lead-score-by-zapier - Let Your Zaps generate information such as company name, position in the company, location, etc., only from an email!

https://predictleads.com - Scrape millions of websites to spy on competitors or find new leads.

Find Influencers

https://socialstudies.io - Reach out to influencers with 5k + followers.

https://ninjaoutreach.com - Find influencers.

https://www.heepsy.com - Large database of influencers with 5-10k + followers.

SEO

https://www.portent.com/serp-preview-tool/ - Preview Search Engine Results

https://www.similarweb.com/ - Check traffic to websites

https://urlprofiler.com - Find out how your links perform, such as how many shares or search data around the link.

https://keywordsheeter.com - Find related keywords.

https://trends.google.com - See trends for search volumes and historical data on actual search volumes. Find related keywords well.

https://seositecheckup.com - Improve on-page SEO.

https://ahrefs.com - All-in-one SEO tool, awesome.

https://ahrefs.com/free-seo-tools - Get a free slice of heaven (Ahrefs).

https://www.semrush.com - Another good all-in-one SEO tool.

https://moz.com/ - One more good all-in-one SEO tool. Best at checking backlinks.

https://mention.com/en - Check if anyone has mentioned you without linking + social listening.

https://css-tricks.com/redirect-web-page - Forward websites.

https://www.redirect-checker.org/index.php - See how your domain moves works, 301s, 302s, etc.

https://search.google.com/search-console/about - Check which words give you visitors, who link to you, and index new pages immediately.

https://www.marketmuse.com - AI that helps content creation from an SEO perspective (English only).

https://buzzsumo.com - Do research on a topic, backlinks, and related topics.

https://news.google.com - Research a topic and which others topics are related.

https://www.spyfu.com - Find an article's most popular keywords, click "View All Organic Keywords" to find the article on the topic (just English).

https://www.backlinkwatch.com - See who links to the article (just English).

https://amp.dev - Framework from Google for fast mobile sites and emails.

https://www.searchpilot.com - AB-test website automatically from an SEO-perspective.

https://www.rankscience.com - AB-test website automatically from an SEO-perspective.

https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool - Test structured data for your website.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper/u/0 - Tag data with microformats.

https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider - Crawls your site's pages and suggests SEO improvements.

Payment Solutions

https://www.memberstack.com/ - Collect recurring payments and handles membership management.

https://www.adyen.com - Payment solution for the whole world.

https://stripe.com - Flexible payment solution without start-up cost and fixed cost and with many third-party integrations

https://paykickstart.com - Subscription management. Integrates with Stripe.

Web-Dev (No Code)

https://zapier.com - Automate feeds between different apps/services/software. Awesome.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights - Speed up websites and debug them.

https://builtwith.com - Check out how a certain website is built.

https://tools.pingdom.com - Performance check websites.

https://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php - Check HTTP headers.

https://www.similarweb.com - See how a website gets traffic.

https://www.programmableweb.com - APIs to use.

https://codecanyon.net - Scripts and code snippets for sale.

https://airtable.com - Can be used as a database in no-code projects.

https://regex101.com - Test validity of regular expressions.

https://webflow.com/ - Create https://regex101.comadvanced websites without code, exactly how you want them.

https://themeforest.net - Templates for everything from websites for videos and platforms.

https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly - Check if a website is optimized for mobile.

https://www.addthis.com - Integrate social media and sharing easily.

https://instapage.com - Build nice and simple landing pages like you then can AB-test.

https://www.molnify.com - Convert a spreadsheet to a web app.

https://ucalc.pro/en - Build nice calculators visually and embed.

https://kartograph.org - Throw in a nice map on your website.

https://web.archive.org - See the evolution of any website through history.

https://www.weavy.com - Framework for integrating Slack-like features (chat, threads, files) in any app.

Server

https://www.digitalocean.com - Rent a virtual server easily, get started with Wordpress in a few clicks.

https://aws.amazon.com - Rent a virtual server that can handle a lot of traffic.

https://www.whatsmydns.net - See the status of DNS propagation.

https://zonemaster.iis.se - Test your DNS.

https://www.redirect-checker.org/ - Quickly check redirects for your site.

https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/ - Deep server/site analysis

https://www.giftofspeed.com/cache-checker/ - Check your sites cache

Design

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ - Generate images with an AI.

https://www.canva.com - Create videos, presentations, photos etc. for blog posts, social media and much more.

https://moqups.com - Create mockups and prototypes collaboratively.

https://fontawesome.com - Nice library of icons.

https://www.shutterstock.com - Lots of stock photos to buy.

https://beebom.com/free-shutterstock-alternatives/ - Comprehensive list of FREE stock photos.

https://placeit.net - Automatically places a photo or video on a screen of your choice.

https://www.facebook.com/PagesSizesDimensions - Dimensions for FB- pages.

https://www.invisionapp.com - Design websites, apps and more.

https://marvelapp.com - Make free, interactive prototypes of sketches.

https://www.freelogodesign.org - Free logos.

https://www.photopea.com - Good free Photoshop variant online.

https://thenounproject.com - Free Icons.

https://biteable.com - Create great looking videos, easily.

https://snappa.com - Create infographics, three free per month.

https://www.lucidchart.com/pages - Build flow charts.

https://www.flaticon.com/ - Awesome icons, many free to use.

IT-Security

https://urlscan.io - Check if a website is secure.

https://detectify.com - Scan your website for security vulnerabilities.

https://www.lastpass.com - My favourite password manager.

Find Freelancers

https://www.upwork.com - Freelance coders / UX designers. Moderate pricing, great results

https://bunnystudio.com/voice - Marketplace for voiceovers.

https://www.freelancer.com - Find developers, and you get what you pay for.

https://99designs.com - Designer for rent. Slightly more expensive (vs Upwork) and slightly better results.

https://www.fiverr.com - Hire consultants for everything in digital really, really cheap. But you often get what you pay for.

Learning

https://teamtreehouse.com - Learn to code. Intuitive and fun.

https://www.makerpad.co/ - Learn to build no-code projects.

https://www.saastr.com - Training in SAAS.

https://teachable.com - Create your own education!

https://sleeknote.com/content-upgrades - Lots of ideas around Growth Hacking.

https://digitalpsychology.io - Psychological principles to know in marketing.

Apps

https://bubble.io - Build no-code web apps without developer experience.

https://www.appannie.com - Awesome analytics platform.

https://www.glideapps.com - Turn spreadsheets into software.

https://www.softr.io - No-code for client portals, client portals, commmunities, marketplaces

https://apptopia.com - Heavy hitter. Sales platform for apps.

https://www.buglife.com - Report bugs in the app.

Management

https://miro.com - Collaborate on design, wireframes, workshops, etc.

https://basecamp.com - User friendly and rather lightweight project management system.

https://www.notion.so - Collaborative documentation, good stuff.

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud - Collaborative documentation, less intuitive but still good.

https://trello.com - Project management platform for agile project management.

https://asana.com - Project management platform, pretty sweet.

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira - Project management platform for agile project management, mainly for developers. Advanced but kinda user unfriendly.

https://slack.com - Awesome communication tool for groups of people.

https://calendly.com - Add-on that takes care of booking meetings in a simple way.

https://airtable.com - Can be used for internal project management.

E-Commerce

https://www.shopify.com - Best(?) e-commerce solution for companies with revenues up to at least €10M.

https://woocommerce.com - Simple platform with advanced features built on WordPress.

https://magento.com - E-commerce platform for larger companies.

Starting Up

https://namevine.com - Check name availability across social media.

https://startuptools.org - Free templates for stock & option agreements and more.

https://www.savewithloot.com/ - Save money on SaaS

Data Collecting

https://commoncrawl.org - Petabytes with crawled data, free.

https://segment.com - Customer Data Platform (CDP). Collects data from various sources and forwards it via their API to e.g. Google Analytics or Mailchimp. Can replace multiple SDKs in one app.

https://parsehub.com/ - Good no-code scraping app.

https://visualping.io/ - Super-easy platform for monitoring changes on a website.

https://www.google.com/alerts - Create alerts around Google searches.

AB Testing

https://www.calculator.net/sample-size-calculator.html - Pre-testing: How many conversions do we need

https://abtestguide.com/calc/ - Post-testing: Where the results statistically significant?

https://www.experimentcalculator.com - Another way to calculate sample size.

https://www.optimizely.com - Lets you AB-test stuff on your website, app, etc.

Market Research

https://www.facebook.com/ads/audience-insights/activity - Explore demographics and interests of users on Facebook.

https://usabilityhub.com - User testing, 5-second testing (“what do you think this company sells? Do you think this brand is trustworthy?”)

https://testimonial.to/ - Easy way to collect high-quality testimonials

Tracking

https://www.appsflyer.com - Attribution tool to see where users are coming from.

https://tagmanager.google.com - Used to track events on websites and forward the data to e.g., Google Analytics.

https://www.adroll.com/campaign-utm-url-builder - Generate UTM parameters for all different ad platforms

Wordpress

https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/wp-smush-pro - Compress pictures automatically.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache - Best cache (that doesn’t break your site).

https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo - Best SEO plugin.

https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/media-library-assistant - Edit/tag multiple photos at once.

https://www.gravityforms.com - Advanced contact form.

https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post - Duplicate pages in Wordpress (does not work by default).

https://revolution.themepunch.com - Carousels and various sliders.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wps-hide-login - Change the /wp-admin URL to reduce the risk of being hacked.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp - Using an external SMTP server instead of the server's own (which are otherwise used and rarely work).

https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-send-email-in-wordpress-using-the-gmail-smtp-server - Guide to using G Suites SMTP-server.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace - Find and replace things in the database, e.g. for SSL application.

https://www.hellobar.com - CTAs!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-experiments-free - Test headings.

https://subscribers.com/ - Plugin for Browser/Desktop notifications.