35 resources that will be interesting to the creators of startups
Today we would like to offer our readers a selection of foreign and domestic resources for the development and promotion of startups at various stages, starting with beta testing and ending with the official release. The list includes those sites and services that we have selected as effective and available based on our own experience or user feedback. Each item is accompanied by a detailed commentary on the services provided and conditions.
Let's start with overseas sites.
1. betalist.com
Want to gather and warm up the audience for the official release? Betalist works with startups that have not yet reached the general public. The administration of the resource selects projects for free placement on the site with an audience of 25,000 users; It also offers the possibility of immediate publication for $ 129.
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2. www.signupfirst.com
If you are ready to offer particularly advantageous conditions to the first users, SignUpFirst is a good way to convey this information to them. The site contains special offers from young companies: discounts, promo, free trial or premium accounts and other bonuses, up to T-shirts with logos. You can enter information about your promotion yourself, no fee will be charged. For a fee of $ 27, your proposal is widely spread on social networks and mailing lists.
3. betapage.co
Catalog of innovative startups. In the process of moderation of applications, the administration takes into account mainly the uniqueness of the idea and how your product is presented on the Web; stage of development of the project does not matter. The resource is notable for interactivity: users have the opportunity to put pros or cons to other startups and take part in discussions.
4. www.springwise.com
The resource selects the most promising and innovative from an infinite number of new startups and delivers information about them to its users through various channels. You can apply and hope for the best.
5. www.crazyaboutstartups.com
All about startups: tips for newly minted business owners, trends in various areas, analytics, success stories and so on. The administration invites visitors to share information about their own projects through a special form - your story can be the basis for a review, article or interview.
6. www.startupranking.com
Add your startup to the database, and the system will calculate its rating based on the results of search results and activity in social networks. The analysis is free, but the waiting time can be up to two months (of course, the process can be accelerated for $ 79). When your project is published on the site, the rating will also determine its position in the general list and, accordingly, the accessibility for the resource visitors.
7. www.randomstartup.org
A simple random generator that randomly gives a visitor a startup from its directory every time the page is refreshed. To include your brainchild in this directory, just fill out a short form.
8. www.sideprojectors.com
Site for the sale of side-projects. Note that the resource does not assume the role of an intermediary between the buyer and the seller, but rather calls on the parties to communicate privately through other communication channels - in fact, the service is exhausted by the placement of ads.
9. startuplift.com
The resource offers start-up owners feedback and beta users for a fee ($ 10 per user, feedback packages from $ 69 to $ 189). Leaving the application, you can specify in detail what aspects you are asking to pay particularly close attention.
10. www.betabound.com
Your chance to bring an entire army of beta testers to your startup is completely free. The Betabound community has more than 150,000 amateurs and professionals who are ready to take on any project that will attract their attention. If the moderators find your project quite interesting, a post with basic information about the product and contacts for beta testers will be placed on the basis of the application. The administration emphasizes that all applications are published on equal terms - the ability to raise or secure a post for a fee is not available, and the flow of testers is determined solely by the merits of the project.
11. www.launchingnext.com
Digest startups that are preparing to launch, plus bonuses in the form of life hacking and product ratings. Apply for the inclusion of your product in the list through the form on the website, for free.
12. www.startuptabs.com
Service that promotes your startup through a mobile application or a web browser plugin; only available for a fee. For their $ 20 user gets about 2000 impressions per day.
13. www.coolstartupbro.com
Youtube for startups; a selection of the very best video presentations of startups. If you have a video shot on the idea, project or finished product - you are here. The system is extremely simple, in order to offer a link, even registration is not required. The administration considers only those videos that are already posted on Youtube or Vimeo.
14. www.younoodle.com
Service for potential investors looking for a promising startup. You can send your project to add to the database, tell in detail about yourself and your program. Immediately, we’ll warn you: YouNoodle will require personal information from you - age, education, previous projects, employee roles in a team, and then analyze the state of the team using an algorithm based on the theory of social networks.
15. www.operation6fig.com
A five-week online course for beginners who are just starting to develop their business and work for themselves. Registration fee is $ 25. The classes cover topics such as market conditions, website and logo design, SEO optimization, and branding. Participants first pass a kind of casting, during which the organizers select the most promising projects.
16. discova.co
A platform that offers investors and ordinary users assistance in finding interesting and promising projects from a variety of categories. For owners of a startup, the pleasure to place their product on the site will cost $ 25.
17. startup88.com
Multitasking resource: offers reviews of new startups, information about current vacancies and major events. Accepted materials from site visitors; Be prepared to describe in detail what your startup is good about in the application. Guaranteed and prompt placement of your history will cost $ 50; when considered in the usual manner, no fee is charged.
18. www.iamwire.com
Resource with analytical articles and useful tips for those who run a project related to the field of technology. The resource accepts materials from outside - tell your story about entering the market, exchange experience with other specialists.
19. stompstart.com
StompStart helps entrepreneurs get support in the early stages of start-up development by demonstrating projects to investors. Materials are posted on the site and pages in social networks for free. Projects, especially liked by the administration, as well as posts from users who are actively involved in the life of the community, have the opportunity to get through to the main page.
20. www.startupblink.com
Geography startups. On the interactive map of the world, you can not only explore the location of the offices of a company and find all the owners of startups in your city, but also get information about whether they are looking for partners and whether they are interested in cooperation. A good tool for networking.
21. gust.com
Resource to search for local startups. Quoting the source: a platform for attracting and managing early stage investments. Thanks to Gust, professional entrepreneurs can cooperate with the most successful investors and receive support on virtually any issues of investor relations.
22. thestartuppitch.com
The Startup Pitch enables application developers to announce to the world about their product and answer user questions.
23. breakpoint.io
Social platform for sharing feedback. If other resources emphasize feedback from users or testers, then Breakpoint with its community of starters provides an opportunity to find out what their colleagues think about your project.
24. www.launchlist.co
Catalog of fresh startups. Cooperation mainly on a commercial basis. Users are offered paid ($ 49 and $ 99) service packages to attract the widest possible audience - mailings, press releases, banner ads, popularization in social networks.
25. sideprojects.in
The site administration collects a collection of "best startups and side projects." Do not be confused by the Indian origin of the resource - according to the Similar Web, most of the traffic to the site comes from the United States. Accommodation is available both on a free and on a fee basis (rates and package of services are discussed on an individual basis).
26. startupbuffer.com
Another directory for startups, where you can see people and show themselves, and at the same time find followers in the early stages of the project development. Accommodation is free, only the usual application and moderation procedure is required.
27. www.startupinspire.com
A resource positioning itself as an international community, where the best talents and cultures of the world come together to seek crowdfunding, share ideas and share tools and advice, and help each other achieve their goals. Simply put, you can share stories about your project, add it to the site, and also find useful information for work.
For many readers of Habr, domestic and Ukrainian resources will be more relevant than English ones. And, although they are an order of magnitude smaller than foreign ones, some of them are worth paying attention to.
28. spark.ru
First of all, small businesses should be familiar with the Spark platform. Here, experts involved in Russian technology projects are going to tell about themselves, answer questions, get feedback and find new partners and investors. The main partner of Spark is the vc.ru edition.
29. startuppoint.ru
The first and largest community in RuNet for the professional search for venture investments and objects for investment; The company assesses the investment attractiveness of startups and aggregates in its base a qualitative stream of projects. The resource gives startups the opportunity to be noticed and get access to investments and at the same time helps investors find decent objects for investment.
30. www.towave.ru
Online edition of startups. The authors write about a variety of projects, are open for communication and promise to respond to everyone except "the owners of sites on the People and the owners of online casinos."
31. startupnetwork.ru
A platform where entrepreneurs with ideas and business plans, but without sufficient financial resources, can find sources of investment. Keep in mind that in order to receive funding, it is important for the initiator to present your project correctly - intelligibly and attractively to the target audience. The interface of the Startup.Network platform is specifically designed to meet the standardized requirements for presenting information to potential investors. The project is relevant not only for Rosiii - Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh startups can also try their luck.
32. equerest.com
Ukraine resource that provides support to existing projects at the initial stage of development. Equerest is most interested, firstly, in start-ups related to education and development, and secondly, in ideas that go beyond standard solutions.
33. ligafk.ru
This service has a base for sending information about your project to investors.
Managers, together with investors, developed a convenient project questionnaire for the preparation of a detailed application. Responding to questions in the questionnaire, a start-up gets the opportunity to describe his project without missing important details.
34. www.microsoft.com
Microsoft also did not stand aside: the tycoon is ready to provide some kind of assistance in the development of your project. The statuper is offered a good old Microsoft BizSpark program, whose members receive for free:
- Microsoft licensed software for the design, development, testing of products and placement of services on the Internet;
- free Azure cloud hosting resources;
- The ability to get a cloud grant in the form of Azure resources;
- up to 4 million rubles as part of participation in Partner accelerators;
- free access to the Windows Store;
- technical advice, assistance in business development and a number of additional benefits from partners in the BizSpark community.
Of course, there are a number of limitations that you can find on the project website.
35. softlinevp.com
Corporate venture fund Softline group of companies. The Fund invests IT projects in the early stages of development. Interests of Softline Venture Partners focus on areas such as mobile applications, SaaS & smart cloud, information security and e-commerce.
We hope that the selection made by us will be useful to you, and your startraps will find their investors and dedicated audience. If you have interesting sources in mind, we would be grateful if you share them in the comments.
Successful projects to you!
Let's start with overseas sites.
1. betalist.com
Want to gather and warm up the audience for the official release? Betalist works with startups that have not yet reached the general public. The administration of the resource selects projects for free placement on the site with an audience of 25,000 users; It also offers the possibility of immediate publication for $ 129.
')
2. www.signupfirst.com
If you are ready to offer particularly advantageous conditions to the first users, SignUpFirst is a good way to convey this information to them. The site contains special offers from young companies: discounts, promo, free trial or premium accounts and other bonuses, up to T-shirts with logos. You can enter information about your promotion yourself, no fee will be charged. For a fee of $ 27, your proposal is widely spread on social networks and mailing lists.
3. betapage.co
Catalog of innovative startups. In the process of moderation of applications, the administration takes into account mainly the uniqueness of the idea and how your product is presented on the Web; stage of development of the project does not matter. The resource is notable for interactivity: users have the opportunity to put pros or cons to other startups and take part in discussions.
4. www.springwise.com
The resource selects the most promising and innovative from an infinite number of new startups and delivers information about them to its users through various channels. You can apply and hope for the best.
5. www.crazyaboutstartups.com
All about startups: tips for newly minted business owners, trends in various areas, analytics, success stories and so on. The administration invites visitors to share information about their own projects through a special form - your story can be the basis for a review, article or interview.
6. www.startupranking.com
Add your startup to the database, and the system will calculate its rating based on the results of search results and activity in social networks. The analysis is free, but the waiting time can be up to two months (of course, the process can be accelerated for $ 79). When your project is published on the site, the rating will also determine its position in the general list and, accordingly, the accessibility for the resource visitors.
7. www.randomstartup.org
A simple random generator that randomly gives a visitor a startup from its directory every time the page is refreshed. To include your brainchild in this directory, just fill out a short form.
8. www.sideprojectors.com
Site for the sale of side-projects. Note that the resource does not assume the role of an intermediary between the buyer and the seller, but rather calls on the parties to communicate privately through other communication channels - in fact, the service is exhausted by the placement of ads.
9. startuplift.com
The resource offers start-up owners feedback and beta users for a fee ($ 10 per user, feedback packages from $ 69 to $ 189). Leaving the application, you can specify in detail what aspects you are asking to pay particularly close attention.
10. www.betabound.com
Your chance to bring an entire army of beta testers to your startup is completely free. The Betabound community has more than 150,000 amateurs and professionals who are ready to take on any project that will attract their attention. If the moderators find your project quite interesting, a post with basic information about the product and contacts for beta testers will be placed on the basis of the application. The administration emphasizes that all applications are published on equal terms - the ability to raise or secure a post for a fee is not available, and the flow of testers is determined solely by the merits of the project.
11. www.launchingnext.com
Digest startups that are preparing to launch, plus bonuses in the form of life hacking and product ratings. Apply for the inclusion of your product in the list through the form on the website, for free.
12. www.startuptabs.com
Service that promotes your startup through a mobile application or a web browser plugin; only available for a fee. For their $ 20 user gets about 2000 impressions per day.
13. www.coolstartupbro.com
Youtube for startups; a selection of the very best video presentations of startups. If you have a video shot on the idea, project or finished product - you are here. The system is extremely simple, in order to offer a link, even registration is not required. The administration considers only those videos that are already posted on Youtube or Vimeo.
14. www.younoodle.com
Service for potential investors looking for a promising startup. You can send your project to add to the database, tell in detail about yourself and your program. Immediately, we’ll warn you: YouNoodle will require personal information from you - age, education, previous projects, employee roles in a team, and then analyze the state of the team using an algorithm based on the theory of social networks.
15. www.operation6fig.com
A five-week online course for beginners who are just starting to develop their business and work for themselves. Registration fee is $ 25. The classes cover topics such as market conditions, website and logo design, SEO optimization, and branding. Participants first pass a kind of casting, during which the organizers select the most promising projects.
16. discova.co
A platform that offers investors and ordinary users assistance in finding interesting and promising projects from a variety of categories. For owners of a startup, the pleasure to place their product on the site will cost $ 25.
17. startup88.com
Multitasking resource: offers reviews of new startups, information about current vacancies and major events. Accepted materials from site visitors; Be prepared to describe in detail what your startup is good about in the application. Guaranteed and prompt placement of your history will cost $ 50; when considered in the usual manner, no fee is charged.
18. www.iamwire.com
Resource with analytical articles and useful tips for those who run a project related to the field of technology. The resource accepts materials from outside - tell your story about entering the market, exchange experience with other specialists.
19. stompstart.com
StompStart helps entrepreneurs get support in the early stages of start-up development by demonstrating projects to investors. Materials are posted on the site and pages in social networks for free. Projects, especially liked by the administration, as well as posts from users who are actively involved in the life of the community, have the opportunity to get through to the main page.
20. www.startupblink.com
Geography startups. On the interactive map of the world, you can not only explore the location of the offices of a company and find all the owners of startups in your city, but also get information about whether they are looking for partners and whether they are interested in cooperation. A good tool for networking.
21. gust.com
Resource to search for local startups. Quoting the source: a platform for attracting and managing early stage investments. Thanks to Gust, professional entrepreneurs can cooperate with the most successful investors and receive support on virtually any issues of investor relations.
22. thestartuppitch.com
The Startup Pitch enables application developers to announce to the world about their product and answer user questions.
23. breakpoint.io
Social platform for sharing feedback. If other resources emphasize feedback from users or testers, then Breakpoint with its community of starters provides an opportunity to find out what their colleagues think about your project.
24. www.launchlist.co
Catalog of fresh startups. Cooperation mainly on a commercial basis. Users are offered paid ($ 49 and $ 99) service packages to attract the widest possible audience - mailings, press releases, banner ads, popularization in social networks.
25. sideprojects.in
The site administration collects a collection of "best startups and side projects." Do not be confused by the Indian origin of the resource - according to the Similar Web, most of the traffic to the site comes from the United States. Accommodation is available both on a free and on a fee basis (rates and package of services are discussed on an individual basis).
26. startupbuffer.com
Another directory for startups, where you can see people and show themselves, and at the same time find followers in the early stages of the project development. Accommodation is free, only the usual application and moderation procedure is required.
27. www.startupinspire.com
A resource positioning itself as an international community, where the best talents and cultures of the world come together to seek crowdfunding, share ideas and share tools and advice, and help each other achieve their goals. Simply put, you can share stories about your project, add it to the site, and also find useful information for work.
For many readers of Habr, domestic and Ukrainian resources will be more relevant than English ones. And, although they are an order of magnitude smaller than foreign ones, some of them are worth paying attention to.
28. spark.ru
First of all, small businesses should be familiar with the Spark platform. Here, experts involved in Russian technology projects are going to tell about themselves, answer questions, get feedback and find new partners and investors. The main partner of Spark is the vc.ru edition.
29. startuppoint.ru
The first and largest community in RuNet for the professional search for venture investments and objects for investment; The company assesses the investment attractiveness of startups and aggregates in its base a qualitative stream of projects. The resource gives startups the opportunity to be noticed and get access to investments and at the same time helps investors find decent objects for investment.
30. www.towave.ru
Online edition of startups. The authors write about a variety of projects, are open for communication and promise to respond to everyone except "the owners of sites on the People and the owners of online casinos."
31. startupnetwork.ru
A platform where entrepreneurs with ideas and business plans, but without sufficient financial resources, can find sources of investment. Keep in mind that in order to receive funding, it is important for the initiator to present your project correctly - intelligibly and attractively to the target audience. The interface of the Startup.Network platform is specifically designed to meet the standardized requirements for presenting information to potential investors. The project is relevant not only for Rosiii - Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh startups can also try their luck.
32. equerest.com
Ukraine resource that provides support to existing projects at the initial stage of development. Equerest is most interested, firstly, in start-ups related to education and development, and secondly, in ideas that go beyond standard solutions.
33. ligafk.ru
This service has a base for sending information about your project to investors.
Managers, together with investors, developed a convenient project questionnaire for the preparation of a detailed application. Responding to questions in the questionnaire, a start-up gets the opportunity to describe his project without missing important details.
34. www.microsoft.com
Microsoft also did not stand aside: the tycoon is ready to provide some kind of assistance in the development of your project. The statuper is offered a good old Microsoft BizSpark program, whose members receive for free:
- Microsoft licensed software for the design, development, testing of products and placement of services on the Internet;
- free Azure cloud hosting resources;
- The ability to get a cloud grant in the form of Azure resources;
- up to 4 million rubles as part of participation in Partner accelerators;
- free access to the Windows Store;
- technical advice, assistance in business development and a number of additional benefits from partners in the BizSpark community.
Of course, there are a number of limitations that you can find on the project website.
35. softlinevp.com
Corporate venture fund Softline group of companies. The Fund invests IT projects in the early stages of development. Interests of Softline Venture Partners focus on areas such as mobile applications, SaaS & smart cloud, information security and e-commerce.
We hope that the selection made by us will be useful to you, and your startraps will find their investors and dedicated audience. If you have interesting sources in mind, we would be grateful if you share them in the comments.
Successful projects to you!
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/316722/
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