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• The Most Important Websites for Founders and Makers
• Open Source alternatives to XXX
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The Most Important Websites for Founders and Makers

Here are some of the most important websites that I use on a daily basis:

• Product Hunt - Gain your first users.
• Indie Hackers - Learn & promote yourself.
• Acquire - Sell or buy small projects.
• Hacker News - Fresh news for makers.
• Paul Graham - Learn the eternal wisdom.
• 37 Signals - Best company culture playbook.
• X.com - Best for networking & marketing.
• Reddit - Marketing.
• Quora - Get smarter.
• YouTube - Learn skills.
• OpenAI Chat - Extend your brain with AI.
• Masters of Scale - Learn from other founders.
• Lex Fridman - Philosophy with top minds.
• Udemy - Learn even more skills.
• Tech Crunch - Read what's being funded.
• Dev Hunt - Promote dev tools.
• Discord - Find communities to hang out in.
• Dribbble - Find design inspirations.
• Upwork - Find freelancers.
• Vercel - Host for free.
• Supabase - Free db.
• Overtracking - Free analytics.
• Crisp Chat - Free live chat.
• Canny - Free customer feedback integration.
• Clerk - Free user auth.

Open Source alternatives to XXX

• supabase.com - firebase

• documenso.com - docu sign

• cal.com - calendly

• plausible.io - google analytics

• devhunt.org - product hunt

• ai.meta.com/llama - open ai gpt

• papermark.io - docsend

• godotengine.org - unity3d

• marsx.dev - all dev world

• ghost.org - medium

• joinmastodon.org - twitter

• rowy.io - airtable

• sentry.io - error tracking

• n8n.io - zappier

• appsmith.com - retool

• clickhouse.com - bigquery

• gitlab.com - github

• penpot.app - figma

• jenkins.io - devops

• forem.com - circle

• posthog.com - mixpanel

• dub.co - bitly

• opencart.com - shopify

• typesense.org - algolia

• appflowy.io - notion

• webstudio.is - webflow

• typebot.io - Typeform

• passbolt.com - 1Password

• @shadcn - tailwind ui

• @nutlope - ai tools

• Best websites in 2023

• Chronicle

• Superlist

• Posthog

• Arc.net

• Bytes.dev

• Supabase

• Diagram

• Vercel

• Genius.design

• Liveblocks.io

• Tubecut.app

• Rive.app

• Resend

• Iconifyai

• Fantomshift

• Mindrudan

• Alignui

• Buildshowandtell

• Lazy.so

• Neon.tech

• Replay.io

• UI.dev

• 37signals.com

• Dub.co

• Shipfa.st

• Framer.university

• Read.cv

• gitness.com

• appwrite.io

• cello.so

• daisyui.com

• baked.design

• aiangels.fund

• i2-camera.polaroid.com

• induced.ai

• alexandru.so

• amie.so

• mintlify.com

• clickhouse.com

• kee.so

Follow @johnrushx for more!

I build everything in public and share all the details of my process. If you've enjoyed this list, follow me on Twitter for more.

Also, check out some of my projects

• unicornplatform.com - a simple landing page builder for busy founders
• seobotai.com - AI blog & SEO on auto-pilot
• marketsy.ai - AI marketplace builder
• marsx.dev - AI NoCode/ProCode platform with micro apps
• floatui.com - Tailwind CSS ui kit
• devhunt.org - A better Product Hunt alternative for dev tools.