Introduction
This post contains is a collection of useful resources and businesses tools that I have consistently used. It should be be useful to most people who work and study from laptops.
Let’s get into it.
Graphic Design
Free Imagery
Photo / Video
Icons
- Health and medical Icons
- https://healthicons.org (free commercial use)
- Remix Icon
- https://remixicon.com (free commercial use)
- Feather Icons
- The Noun Project
- https://thenounproject.com
- Icons and Photos for almost everything
- Undraw.co
- https://pattern.monster
- SVG patterns to use in you projects
- Ashraf Omran (6000 Free Icons)
Colours
- https://coolors.co
- hexcolorpedia.com
- pick a colour, get information and colour pairing suggestions
- https://colorhunt.co
- https://trianglify.io
- Background Generator
Mockups
- https://mockups-design.com
- high quality mockups (PSD files)
- https://www.ls.graphics/free-mockups
- https://unblast.com/mockups/
- https://mrmockup.com/freebies/
- https://alienvalley.com/freebies/
Fonts
- https://fonts.google.com
- free commercial use fonts
- https://fontesk.com
- Sort by usable for commercial use, take the hard work out of finding fonts and pairings.
- https://fontjoy.com
Utility
- www.screensizes.app
- Get information about common devices screen sizes
- whocanuse.com
- Web content accessibility guidelines to help pick colours
Software
- www.figma.com
- design, illustration and prototyping application
- generous free account offers
- procreate.art
- ipad/iphone app
- handdrawing illustrations, some animation and 3D illustration
- Adobe Suite
- You’ve heard of this before
- Expensive, but it’s the industry standard in a lot of industries!
- Alfred
- Mac only
- Search anything on you mac or the internet all with a shortcut
- a better way to interact with your mac, I’ve used this shortcut an average of 40times a day.
Design Inspiration
Marketting
Email Marketting
- emailtooltester.com
- Allows you to compare email service providers, notably the rate at which your email gets marked as “spam” for each major email service provider.
SEO and Research
- Ahrefs
- paid, expensive
- Semrush
- paid, expensive
- Similarweb
- Competitor website analysis and comparison
- Lists most popular pages, trafic, sources etc.
- Keywords Everywhere
- This little chrome tool is worth it’s weight in gold. Generous free-mium version with the ability to add credits without a subscipriont.
- I love this tool as it gives you at a glance overview of search term competition and suggestions – gives lots of business ideas
- shows you monthly search volume, CPC and competition data of keywords on multiple websites
- Best SEO Tools List
- List of other tools that are useful for SEO
Writing / Copywriting
- Headlime
- Paid
- Write better marketing copy faster with AI.
- Copy.ai
- Paid, nice intro offer though
- AI generated copywriting for articles, titles, thumbnails, mission statements etc.
- https://hemingwayapp.com
- Parses text and suggests improvements to maintain readability and engagement. Sounds shit, but is really useful.
Employment
Hiring Contractors
General Work
- UpWork
- Hire remote workers for one off or continued jobs
- Literally anything from video editing to content writing and 3d model design etc
Developpers
- https://clouddevs.com/
- Hire better devs in Latin America
- https://www.trustshoring.com
- Eastern Europe devs
Salary Comparison
- Get Paid, Not Played (google doc)
- Open source google dock for salary comparison in Australia
Digital Nomad Resources
- https://nomadlist.com
- Really well maintained list of locations and all relevant information for digital nomads.
- https://remoteok.com
- Job Board for remote work
Conclusion
Hopefully some of these end up being useful to you. If you find a tool that you think belongs on this list please reach out!