And since 95% of products end nowhere, building more and faster should be your #1 priority.
8 steps to build in 7 days (and all the tools to do it):
1. Creatives
- Dall-E-2 - enter a phrase related to your idea and take inspiration
- Canva - free templates, elements and creatives
- Figma - best for logos, easy to share and collaborate with teams
- Smart Mockups - product screenshots for free
2. Website
- Carrd - fast, easy, great templates and low prices
- Webflow (more complex) - no code, better interactive sites
3. Core Product
- Bubble.io - build no code web apps, free to build, pay once you grow
- Flowmapp - tools to collab in UX, strategy etc. Create sitemaps, build flowcharts + more.
- Uxpin - create prototypes for testing your product, low cost
4. Payment System
- Stripe - quick creation, customer facing pages, tons of integration
- Paddle - costs more than stripe but handles tax completely 🤩
5. Organized Workspace
- Notion - blank canvas for your way of working, awesome for teams
- Zapier / Make - connect and automate everything (gmail, notion, website etc)
- Slack - organize and automate team communication, integrates with other tools
6. Launch Publicity
- Product Hunt - product publishing, products listed in linear format by day. Daily email listing top tech products previous day
- Submit - list of tech media sites sortable by twitter followers/alexa rank, easy outreach list build
7. Marketing
- Ahrefs - perfect your SEO
- ReallyGoodEmails - best showcase of email design, 10k+ emails to learn from
- Testimonialto - video testimonials for website social proof
- Feather .so - build your blog from Notion
8. Feedback to improve
- Tally - simple form builder, visually appealing and engaging questionnaires
- Hotjar - site visitor heatmaps, funnels, forms, free version too
The more you build, the better and quicker you’ll get at doing it.