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by hoofhearthed 1673 days ago
Great job man, hows the solo founder path for you working out? Any tools/utilities/apps you can recommend that helped you bootstrap faster and easier?
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Thanks a lot! These tools helped me a lot, especially in the design-graphics-area:

- Logo / Brand material generation:

  https://looka.com/

  https://brandmark.io/
- Previewed.app:

  Generating app screenshots & marketing material:   I love this product. It saves a lot of time and gives my professional images and promo videos:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uop3MffO04k

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v82bBjW5ngs
- UI Framework for web:

  https://mui.com/

  I've build the complete website in under a week using React / Vercel and especially MUI
- https://coolors.co/palettes/popular

  Finding a color palette that doesn't completely suck.. I know my color palette is not the best yet, but at least it was very cheap ;-)
- https://easyappicon.com/

  Creating app icons for multiple resolutions and Android and iOS
- Gitlab.com

  Gitlab is super cheap and super useful for managing deploy pipelines
- Google Cloud - Startup program

  Google cloud gave me credits because i'm a startup. I also really like AppEngine and BigQuery. They are quite cheap. The most expensive thing i run is the Redis instance.
- Fiverr:

  Whenever I need help, i find freelancers here for single shot assignments.
- Smartlook:

  For seeing how people are using my product.
- Firebase / Google Analytics 4:

  For analytics, A/B Testing, Push notifications.