This post is a collection of useful resources and business tools that I consistently use. Whether you’re working or studying from a laptop, these should come in handy.
Let’s get into it!
Table of Contents
Graphic Design
Free Imagery
Photos / Videos
- Unsplash: Free commercial use photos.
- Pexels and Pixabay: Free commercial use photos and videos.
Icons
- Health and Medical Icons: Health Icons (free commercial use)
- Remix Icon: Remix Icon (free commercial use)
- Feather Icons: Feather Icons
- The Noun Project: The Noun Project (icons and photos for almost everything)
- Undraw.co: Undraw (SVG patterns for your projects)
- Ashraf Omran (6000 Free Icons): Dribbble
Colours
- Coolors: Generate and explore color palettes.
- Hex Colorpedia: Pick a color, get information and color pairing suggestions.
- Color Hunt: Curated color palettes.
- Trianglify: Background generator.
Mockups
- Mockups Design: High quality mockups (PSD files).
- LS Graphics: Free mockups.
- Unblast: Free mockups.
- Mr. Mockup: Free mockups.
- Alien Valley: Free mockups.
Fonts
- Google Fonts: Free commercial use fonts.
- Fontesk: Sort by usable for commercial use, taking the hard work out of finding fonts and pairings.
- Fontjoy: Font pairing suggestions.
Utility
- Screen Sizes: Get information about common device screen sizes.
- Who Can Use: Web content accessibility guidelines to help pick colors.
Software
Design, Illustration, and Prototyping
Figma: Figma
Design, illustration, and prototyping application with a generous free account offering.Procreate: Procreate
iPad/iPhone app for hand-drawing illustrations, some animation, and 3D illustration.Adobe Suite: Adobe Suite
You’ve heard of this before! It’s expensive, but it’s the industry standard in many fields.
Productivity
- Alfred: Alfred (Mac only)
Search anything on your Mac or the internet with a shortcut. A better way to interact with your Mac—I use this shortcut an average of 40 times a day.
Design Inspiration
- Behance: Behance
- Dribbble: Dribbble
- Site Inspire: Site Inspire
Marketing
Email Marketing
- Email Tool Tester: Email Tool Tester
Compare email service providers, including the rate at which your email gets marked as “spam” for each major provider.
SEO and Research
Ahrefs: Ahrefs (paid, expensive)
Semrush: Semrush (paid, expensive)
Similarweb: Similarweb
Competitor website analysis and comparison. Lists most popular pages, traffic sources, etc.Keywords Everywhere: Keywords Everywhere
This Chrome tool is worth its weight in gold. Generous freemium version with the ability to add credits without a subscription. It gives you an at-a-glance overview of search term competition and suggestions—great for business ideas. Shows monthly search volume, CPC, and competition data of keywords on multiple websites.Best SEO Tools List: Comprehensive list of other useful SEO tools.
Writing / Copywriting
Headlime: Headlime (paid)
Write better marketing copy faster with AI.Copy.ai: Copy.ai (paid, nice intro offer)
AI-generated copywriting for articles, titles, thumbnails, mission statements, etc.Hemingway App: Hemingway App
Parses text and suggests improvements to maintain readability and engagement. It sounds basic, but it’s really useful.
Employment
Hiring Contractors
UpWork: UpWork
Hire remote workers for one-off or ongoing jobs—anything from video editing to content writing and 3D model design.Cloud Devs: Cloud Devs
Hire better developers in Latin America.Trustshoring: Trustshoring
Developers from Eastern Europe.
Digital Nomad Resources
Nomad List: Nomad List
A well-maintained list of locations and all relevant information for digital nomads.Remote OK: Remote OK
Job board for remote work.
