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6 tools for Indie Hackers that you didn't know about yet

InstaGlot

What is it?
Translation add-on for Google Sheets

Use cases

  • Translating <title> tags, meta descriptions & webcopy for international SEO
  • Translating Google Adwords accounts (both keywords & ads)
  • Translating product descriptions for e-commerce websites

What I like about it

  • First 2500 translated words are free
  • No subscription required, only usage-based pricing
  • Superior translation quality compared to Google Translate & others (uses DeepL API)

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.. :-)

Phantombuster
What is it?
No-code-automations and data extraction

Use cases

  • Scrape Linkedin profiles
  • Extract members of niche Facebook/Linkedin groups to build custom audiences on
  • Extract users who engaged with your social posts to use them for sales outreach
  • Automatically follow accounts based on specific criteria

What I like about it

  • The scraping functionality
  • You can chain 'recipes' after each other

Mail meteor
What is it?
Send personalized mass emails with Gmail & Google sheets

Use cases

  • Send mass email campaigns to a list of users you've extracted through Phantombuster or others
  • Send your newsletter without needing

What I like about it

  • You get to see which users opened/clicked your email straight into Google Sheets

Miro
What is it?
A visual collaboration platform

Use cases

  • Customer brainstorm/ideation sessions
  • Visualizing marketing funnels
  • Visualize customer journeys
  • Build flowcharts
  • Remote brainstorming sessions

What I like about it

  • You can collaborate real-time in the same document
  • Works smoothly, there's no lag

Savvycall
What is it?
Multi-calendar scheduling tool

Use cases

  • Share your calendar link with prospects to book introduction meetings

What I like about it

  • I have about 14 Google calendar accounts for different projects/customers, that all need to be taken account. Other tools like Calendly don't even support that many connections in their most expensive plans.

Loom
What is it?
Async video messaging

Use cases

  • Record short videos to answer support questions
  • Record personalized sales outreach messages for cold outreach
  • Create onboarding content for new colleagues

What I like about it

  • Good video/audio quality
  • You can get notifications when your video has been watched

I hope you like the list! :-)

on June 4, 2022
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