Free Services for Websites

Useful, free services to help get a new website up and running.

A/B Testing

• Marketizator: A/B testing, segmented surveys and personalization
• Optimizely: A/B testing for websites and mobile apps

Analytics

• Google Analytics: Site analytics
• Mixpanel: Action-based analytics
• Heap: Instant and retroactive analytics for web and iOS

Autocomplete

• Constructor.io: Add fast, typo-tolerant, domain-specific autocomplete as a service to your site

Communication

• Slack: Team communication through instant messaging and more
• Hipchat: Team communication through instant messaging and more
• Gitter: Chat, for GitHub.

Customer Support

• Groove: Simple help desk software

Designing and Prototyping

• Moqups: Build, edit and share a prototype

Hosting

• Heroku: Platform-as-a-service to host your site
• AWS Free Tier: Free usage of AWS services, within limits, for a year
• Rackspace Developer Tier: Get $50/month for 12 months with $600 free credit for Rackspace cloud services

Marketing

• Mailchimp: Send newsletters
• Customer.io: Drip campaigns
• Wordpress.com: Blogging platform
• Hootsuite: Manage social media campaigns

Monitoring

• Pingdom: Get notified if your site goes down
• New Relic: Monitor your site performance
• Uptime Robot: 50 Monitors, Checked Every 5 Minutes, Totally Free

Project Management

• Trello: Task lists

Search

• Constructor.io: Fast, typo-tolerant, domain-specific autocomplete as a service
• Algolia: Search as a service
• Google Custom Search: Make searching your site easy

Surveys

• Survey Monkey: Send customer surveys

Revision Control

• BitBucket: Unlimited private code repositories, Free for 5 users, Git or Mercurial, Lightweight code review, Mac and Windows client

How To Contribute to This List

Do you know of a free service (or one with at least a year-long free trial) that can help people build websites?

• Fork
• Edit
• Send a Pull Request