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Pre-Seed Startup
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Pre-seed is the most exciting but nerve-wrecking time for a startup. You're typically working to build and validate an MVP with a small team (or solo), out-of-pocket funds, you're reworking ideas and prototypes and laying the groundwork for future growth and fundraising.
The resources available to pre-seed startups in laying this groundwork are usually lean, and so showcasing your long-term vision to potential investors with an MVP or an idea can be challenging, to say the least. But not impossible.
As a pre-seed startup you need to be able to prove your determination and value as a founder, you need some form of validation around the problem your product is solving, a really good pitch and pitch deck, to be able to articulate the vision of your product both verbally and visually (MVP, design, prototype, slides, so on) and you need to start building a community and network around you and your idea.
There's fortunately a mass of tools out there to help you do this, We've listed below what we believe to be the best ones - tools that provide a framework for you to do all of this really well. We've listed our favorites below, and P.S. - we believe in you 😉
Flutterflow
🎨 Visual Builder
🌐 Easy Data & API Integration
🌎 Multi-Language Apps
⚡️ Visual Action Builder
💥 Custom Widgets
🪐 Custom Functions
Wized
🌐 Connect your apps
⚡️ Load single items and lists of items from apps
🚀 Make your web app interactive with Actions
☁️ Send data to any connected app
🔐 User Auth with sign up, log in, content, and Stripe
🐛 Debugger to see & understand problems
Xano
🔗 Integrate and Connect to Everything
💥 Create APIs with No-Code
💾 Store Data with no Record Limits
🔎 Search, Filter, and Aggregate
🚀 Scalable by Design
🔐 Secure and Compliant
Chronicle
👀 Visualise Info
🚀 Responsive & Customizable
💡 Embed Windows
🗂️ Templates
🪐 Workflows
⚡️ Keyboard Shortcuts
👋 Team Collaboration
🌐 Mobile Experience
Gamma
💡 Get your point across with present mode
🔎 Drill into the details using nested cards
💬 Keep things concise with footnotes
🎨 Restyle your entire deck in just one click
⏰ Use a flexible template to work faster
📊 Measure engagement with built-in analytics
😁 Get more feedback with quick reactions
💬 Comments make collaboration straightforward
Bubble
⚙️ Build any web app with no code
🎨 Drag and drop editor
📈 Scale with robust, hosted infrastructure
🚀 Expand, engage, measure
🤝 Share the workload with collaboration
🔗 Integrate with all your tools
Userbrain
✅ Set up user tests with tasks
🚀 Access to 100k+ testers
👋 Invite your own testers
📹 User session recordings
📝 Multiple task types
📊 Test analytics & insights
folk
⚙️ Centralize all your contacts in one place
🗂 Organize your contacts into groups
⚡️ Custom emailing with mail merge software
📝 Sync messaging across all your tools
🚀 Chrome extension to capture leads
💬 Leverage customisation for better emails
Clearbit
🎯 Ad Targeting
💸 Conversion Targeting
📝 Form Optimization
👋 Intent-Based Outreach
⭐️ Advanced Personalization
📊 Data Scoring
🚀 Lead Scoring & Routing
Supabase
📊 Database
🔒 Authentication
💾 Storage
🔮 Edge Functions
🧭 Realtime
💥 Vector
Mouseflow
📸 Session Replay
🔥 6 Types of Heatmaps
💸 Conversion Funnels
📊 Form Analytics
💬 Feedback
🌎 Understand Your User
Gleap
🐛 In-app bug reporting
⭐️ Customer surveys & ratings
✅ Micro surveys
📸 Capture feedback visually
🔗 Seamless integration
🚀 Public product roadmap
📝 Feature request board
💬 Live chat
PostHog
📊 Product analytics
🌐 Web analytics
▶️ Session replay
⛳️ Feature flags
⚡️ A/B testing
📝 Surveys
🚀 Data pipeline
🗂️ Data warehouse
🔗 API & HogQL
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Wellfound
🔥 10k Matches Made
💼 150k+ Tech Jobs
🦄 10m+ Startup Ready Candidates
➗ Salary Calculator
📊 Startup Hiring Data
🚀 Recruitment Support
Caribou
🗂️ View files and compliance docs in one place
📃 Automatic document parsing
👀 Entity Monitoring
💰 Guidance on IP & revenue strategy
🚀 A scalable intercompany framework
💸 Compliant cash transfers
📓 Guidance for your accountants
✅ All-in-one dashboard
✍️ Automatic signing workflow
💬 Benchmarking included
Raizer
💸 Connect with investors
📬 Email AI Assistant
🚀 Outreach campaigns
👋 Warm intros
Pipe
💰 Access real-time financing
🔗 Sync billing, banking, and accounting
🔒 Bank-level security
📈 Built to scale as you grow
🌐 Operate with ease
💸 Scale your business flexibly
Cal.com
📅 Connect all your calendars
⏱ Set your availability
⚡️ Share your link
✅ Let people book when it suits both of you
⚙️ Workflow automations
🚀 Route bookers to the right person
Brevo
⚡️ Email & SMS Marketing
☎️ CRM
🌐 Landing Pages
🤖 Marketing Automations
💬 Live Chat
📝 Signup Forms
Linear
✅ Projects & Issues
🌀 Sync & Cycles
🚗 Roadmap & Backlog
🤖 Automated workflows
🔗 Git Integrations
💬 Discussions, Triage & Slack
⭐️ API & Webhooks
🚀 Keyboard-first Design
Product Hunt
🚀 Launch your product
⭐️ Find your next fave product
📖 Tech news, interviews & tips
💬 Community discussions
📅 Events & meet-ups
🤝 Connect with makers & hunters
Missive
📬 Team & Personal Inboxes
✅ Chat & Tasks
🗂 Canned & Variable Responses
⌘ Command Bar
💬 Conversation Assignment
☎️ Contact Management
🎨 Custom Branded Live Chat
📺 Custom Channels
