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! :-)
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This was mostly a great reminder to make the leap to savvycal 😂. Have to do it half to say thanks for Art of Product Podcast work those guys have put in :)
Thanks for the write up! For curiosity's sake, what is the benefit of using instaglot compared to the google translation already built in?
InstaGlot uses DeepL as a translation engine, which is far better quality than Google translate. It's generally accepted to be the best translation engine in the world at the moment. I wouldn't dare to just translate website content through Google Translate and publish it, but with InstaGlot/DeepL you actually can. :-)
Thank you for sharing it. I am new here and it was helpful
Miro is quite useful for me.
Wow thanks for this list. 🥳