A list of interesting tools and resources for app design/development.
- Treehouse - A great learning resources for beginners, a bit lacking in advanced content.
- Tuts+ - Not as polished as something like Treehouse but a much wider range of content.
- Dribbble - The king of design communities.
- Pttrns - A great site for discovering UI/UX patterns.
- Product Hunt - Interesting products every day.
- Basecamp - The 300 pound gorilla of project management.
- Teamgrid - A really cool looking management tool specifically for remote teams.
- Blossom - Agile project management that actually seems enjoyable.
- HockeyApp - Still the best in mobile app distribution IMHO.
- BuddyBuild - An impressive looking alternative to something like HockeyApp.
- Surge - Easy deployments for static websites.
- Deploybot - Beautiful deployments from Wildbit.
- FTPloy - Automatic deployment from Github or Bitbucket.
- Github - The undisputed champion of code hosting.
- Beanstalk - The only other code hosting worth its salt.
- Heroku - The easiest platform for hosting web apps.
- Webfaction - Cheap, reliable semi-managed hosting.
- Digital Ocean - The best for cheap, fast DIY cloud hosting.
- Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage - Extremely cheap cloud storage.
- Silverflows - Prototyping directly inside of Sketch.
- Creo - Essentially a third party Interface Builder for iOS apps. Looks very promising but projects like this rarely last.
- Atomic - A well polished prototyping and animation tool.
- Principle - A native prototyping tool for OSX.
- Marvel - Yet another attractive web based prototyping tool.
- Pixate - A popular Google-owned prototyping tool.
- Atom - Supplanted Sublime as the best all-around code editor.
- Visual Studio Code - A new web editor from Microsoft.
- Scarlet - An unreleased but very promising looking IDE for frontend web.
- Middleman - My favorite static site generator.
- Webflow - A web development and CMS tool in one.
- Vorlon - A tool for remote debugging Javascript by Microsoft.
- Reveal - A tool for visually debugging iOS apps.
- iOS Design Guidelines - A guide that includes helpful information on things like resolution, device size, typography, colors for iOS.
- Gelato - A promising tool for creating developer portals.
- ReadMe - Another nice platform for creating a developer portal.
- Galileo - A beautifully designed tool for monitoring, visualizing, and debugging API traffic.
- Sails.js - The first backend JS framework that actually looks appealing to me.
- Mixmax - A gmail extension that adds useful features like read tracking, send later, etc.
- Peer - A tool for continuous, automated team feedback.
- Finch - A super simple tool for sharing local websites with team members/clients.
- Postico - A beautiful PostgreSQL client for OSX.
- Vault - A tool for managing sensitive data within a dev team.
- Slides - My favorite presentation tool. Create in-browser presentations with videos, code snippets, etc.
- Intercom - A very popular suite of customer support tools.
- Oscar Health Insurance - A service that provides hope for those of us that actually want to like our insurance company.
- FormSwift - Create and sign legal documents for free.
- SellItEasy - A tool for busy people to sell things easily.
- Funnel - Contact forms, CRM, and proposals in one.
- Insurance by Jack - Currently UK only but a promising idea in the world of small business insurance.
- Concord - A contract creation and management platform.
- Beagle - Very impressive looking platform for creating proposals.
- Dribbox - Your Dribbble profile as your portfolio, automatic and instant.
- Indie Hackers - Cool resource that shows how much revenue products are generating.
- Park - Easy domain backorders.
- Svbtle - A very simple platform for beautiful blog posts.
- Typed - Another simple blogging platform that includes a Theme SDK.
- Accountable A SaaS platform for HIPAA compliance.