Thread by @heyblake

Your software toolbelt needs an upgrade.

Meet 50 wildly helpful tools for indie hackers:

Name: Ahrefs (@ahrefs)

Maker: @botsbreeder

How I Use It: SEO, competitive research, find keywords

Who Teaches It: @timsoulo, @samsgoh

Name: Airr (@AirrAudio)

Maker: @dav1dlu, @SamRukeyser, @mikesa

How I Use It: Listen to podcasts, capture clips I love

Who Teaches It: @AliAbdaal, @TomFrankly

Name: Airtable (@airtable)

Maker: @howietl, @aofstad, @emmettnicholas

How I Use It: Organize all my data, automate messages to email and Slack

Who Teaches It: @andywingrave

Name: Bannerbear (@bannerbearHQ)

Maker: @yongfook

How I Use It: Automatically makes images for me based on templates

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Bigvu (@videoinspire)

Maker: @damselem

How I Use It: Teleprompter for videos so I can keep eye contact and speak well

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Carrd (@carrd)

Maker: @ajlkn

How I Use It: Landing pages for newsletter opt-ins

Who Teaches It: @RydenMartin

Name: Chime (@chime_social)

Maker: @jones_spencera

How I Use It: Helps me know the best times to tweet based on my audience.

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Cleanshot X (@CleanShot)

Maker: @lukaszmtw, @PawelMag

How I Use It: Easily the best way to take screenshots and make them look awesome.

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: Copy.ai (@copy_ai)

Maker: @PaulYacoubian, @chris__lu

How I Use It: My most used tool. Generates copy for anything I need.

Who Teaches It: @nevmed, @jmcmillen89, @heyblake

Name: Descript (@DescriptApp)

Maker: @andrewmason

How I Use It: Editing podcasts and videos, automatic transcriptions

Who Teaches It: HUGE opportunity here

Name: Endel (@EndelSound)

Maker: @stvtsk

How I Use It: Plays focused music in the background while I tackle deep work

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Fathom Analytics (@usefathom)

Maker: @jackellis, @pjrvs

How I Use It: My fave alternative to Google Analytics

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: Float (@sayfloat)

Maker: @heyblake, @wenquai

How I Use It: Create a course in Notion.

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: Gradienta (gradienta.io)

Maker: @HiShahadat

How I Use It: Gorgeous gradient patterns for my designs

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Gumroad (@gumroad)

Maker: @shl

How I Use It: Selling digital products in 2 seconds

Who Teaches It: @shl, anyone who creates with Gumroad!

Name: Hemingway (@HemingwayApp)

Maker: @BenLongComedy

How I Use It: An editor that gives me tips on simplifying my writing

Who Teaches It: Opportunity here!

Name: Hunter (@emailhunter)

Maker: @fgrante, @antoinefink

How I Use It: Helps me find prospect emails just by visiting their website.

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: Ilo.so

Maker: @dr

How I Use It: Twitter analytics on steroids.

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Indiebrands.io

Maker: @lauridskern

How I Use It: We got the Float domain and branding from here. Enough said.

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Indiehackers (@IndieHackers)

Maker: @csallen

How I Use It: Surround myself with other builders for inspiration and motivation

Who Teaches It: No one teaches it, but many are active

Name: Keysmith (@KeysmithApp)

Maker: @DehaasDe, @dmoreh_

How I Use It: Set up shortcuts for literally anything you want on Mac

Who Teaches It: Opportunity here!

Name: Leave Me Alone (@LeaveMeAloneApp)

Maker: @JamesIvings, @dinkydani21

How I Use It: The easiest way I've found to unsubscribe from emails for good

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: Loom (@loom)

Maker: @_shahedk, @vhmth, @yoyo_thomas

How I Use It: I record a Loom screenshare every single day without fail

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: MagicPattern (@MagicPattern)

Maker: @d__raptis

How I Use It: Gives me beautiful designs in 2 seconds

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Mailbrew (@mailbrew)

Maker: @linuz90, @frankdilo

How I Use It: Spend less time on Twitter and email, more time in a curated feed

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: Maven.com

Maker: @wes_kao, @gaganbiyani

How I Use It: Host and take cohort-based courses

Who Teaches It: Course creators like @gregisenberg, @APompliano, @julian

Name: Microacquire (@microacquire)

Maker: @agazdecki

How I Use It: Not used it yet, but amazing if you want to buy an existing project

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: My Mind (@mymind)

Maker: Krystian Fikert

How I Use It: Quick thought and imagery organization

Who Teaches It: No one I know of — opportunity here!

Name: Notion (@NotionHQ)

Maker: @ivanhzhao

How I Use It: Notes, tables, tasks. Pretty much everything.

Who Teaches It: @mariepoulin, @AliAbdaal, @TomFrankly, @WilliamNutt

Name: OneWord.Domains

Maker: @FNTey

How I Use It: Domain name inspiration

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Opal (@withopal)

Maker: @kschlenker

How I Use It: Blocks distracting phone apps for focused deep work

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Orbit (@OrbitModel)

Maker: @patrickjwoods, @dzello

How I Use It: CRM for my Twitter community

Who Teaches It: @rosiesherry

Name: Pocket (@Pocket)

Maker: @NateWeiner

How I Use It: Save blogs I wanna read later

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Readwise (@readwiseio)

Maker: @homsiT

How I Use It: Save threads, articles, and links

Who Teaches It: @AliAbdaal

Name: Roam Research (@RoamResearch)

Maker: @Conaw

How I Use It: Take notes that organize themselves

Who Teaches It: @nateliason and a bunch others

Name: Savvycal (@savvycal_)

Maker: @derrickreimer

How I Use It: Calendly alternate (much better for me)

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Setapp (@Setapp)

Maker: @kosovan

How I Use It: I have about 20 apps installed on my Mac from Setapp

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Shoutout.so (@shoutoutso_)

Maker: @5harath, @curtisjcummings

How I Use It: Collect text social proof in the form of Tweets

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: Sparktoro (@sparktoro)

Maker: @randfish

How I Use It: Analyze my audience and find areas of opportunity

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Super.so

Maker: @traf

How I Use It: Build web pages using my Notion docs

Who Teaches It: Founder and community

Name: Superhuman (@Superhuman)

Maker: @rahulvohra

How I Use It: Keep my inbox organized

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Swipefiles.com

Maker: @coreyhainesco

How I Use It: Learn marketing from the smartest folks out there

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Testimonial.to

Maker: @damengchen

How I Use It: Collect video testimonials for social proof

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Tolta (@tolta_co)

Maker: @dr

How I Use It: iOS counter on my Twitter followers

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Typefully (@typefullyapp)

Maker: @linuz90, @frankdilo

How I Use It: Write ans schedule tweeet threads (like this one!)

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: Unicorn Platform (@unicornplatform)

Maker: @alexanderisora

How I Use It: Build landing pages

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Veed.io

Maker: @sab8a

How I Use It: Best video editor on the market. Period.

Who Teaches It: Founder

Name: Whereby (@whereby)

Maker: @oyvindreed

How I Use It: Alternate to Zoom (and way better IMO)

Who Teaches It: @ryanbonnici

Name: Yac (@yac)

Maker: @jordanlwalker, @jmitch, @huntermoonshot

How I Use It: Chat with communities and friends via audio

Who Teaches It: Founders

Name: Zapier (@zapier)

Maker: @wadefoster, @bryanhelmig, @mikeknoop

How I Use It: Automate everything I possibly can

Who Teaches It: @ImSamThompson

That's all folks!

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