How to start and grow a Web3 company? These 100 tools you should be able to use
Compilation of the original text: Bai Ze Research Institute
Compilation of the original text: Bai Ze Research Institute
The author of this article, Julian Ivaldy, is the co-founder of Web3Island & The Secret Company and has also been growing several ambitious Web3 startups (Mobula, StaySAFU, Safetin). Among them, the encrypted scanner StaySAFU has grown to 1 million users in two years, and the beta version of the decentralized data aggregator Mobula has attracted more than 50,000 active users.
Building and sustaining a Web3 startup is no easy task, and there are many challenges and obstacles that will plague you. So in your entrepreneurial venture, having tools relevant to your Web3 business will be crucial. If they work well, they will save you time, money.
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Create your team and hire talent:
The start of most successful Web3 startups is seldom from discovering a revolutionary idea that no one else has, but from discovering that other people share your same ambitions, have the same ambition to build a company, and will complement yours. Building your team, finding co-founders, and hiring your first employees are critical to the success of your startup. Fortunately, some tools can help you in this process.
● Ethlance: Ethlance is the first job market platform built entirely on the Ethereum blockchain with a 0% service fee.
● Web3Career: a job market platform that has completed job matching for more than 2,3000 blockchain developers, Web3 developers, and smart contract developers.
● MeritVerse: A professional network for Web3 talent.
● Freelancer: Find and hire the best freelancers, web developers and designers for less.
● Upwork: Upwork connects businesses with independent professionals and institutions around the world.
● CryptoCurrencyJobs: A job board for blockchain jobs and Crypto jobs.
● Remote3: Discover remote workers around the world who want to engage in blockchain, smart contracts, DeFi, and NFT.
● Web3Meetups: This platform brings together the best Web3 online gatherings in the world.
● LinkedIn: Build your skill network and connect with like-minded people.
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Manage your team:
By creating a Web3 startup, in most cases you will have the ability to market your product globally (since there are no real geographic barriers). On the other hand, your team may consist of talented people from all over the world. In most cases, you will be working remotely/hybrid.
You will have to interact with the team, track progress, develop your company culture and most importantly... have fun :)
Here are some tools that may help you:
● Gather: In the Gather platform, you can freely customize the virtual meeting center.
● AltspaceVR: An industry-leading virtual event platform that enables creators, brands and companies to quickly create memorable experiences and foster connections with their communities.
● Travala: organize a trip with your group anywhere, pay with cryptocurrency.
● Trello: Task and team management made easy.
● Asana: Project management tool.
● Wonder: A virtual workspace where teams can collaborate side by side
● Slite: Decision making and project management for remote teams.
● Airtable: Workflow and team collaboration.
● Slack: Common chat channel, more secure than email.
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Beautiful graphic design:
Graphic design resources are very useful for bringing your ideas to life, visual releases, brochures... If you want to create digital graphic assets, there is a list of must-have tools at your disposal:
● Fraam3: Fraam3 is a creative platform where you can directly design and create NFT.
● Mirror: Mirror's powerful publishing platform pushes the boundaries of online writing—whether it's a white paper or a weekly community update.
● Pixabay: Free photo repository.
● GraphicRiver: Searches a large collection of human-reviewed graphics resources.
● Canva: Free online graphic design tool. Use it to create your social media posts, presentations and more.
● AllCryptoWhitePapers: The largest database of cryptocurrency white papers!
● TinyWOW: A tool for solving file problems.
● Veed: Create stunning video trailers and video ads without mastering iMovie or Adobe Premiere.
● Dribble: Product design inspiration.
● Spline: This is an online 3D design tool.
● InVideo: video content library.
● Clideo: All-in-one, easy-to-use online video production tool.
● Abyssale: Automated ad banner creation.
● Remove: Automatically remove the background of the image.
● Coolors: Generate eye-catching color schemes for your websites and apps.
● Lordicon: Animated icon library.
● icons8: There are many icons and illustrations.
● GetAds: Online ad creation platform, don't let bad ads reduce your conversion rate.
● Mmhmm: Make slideshows with stunning effects.
● Mockuuups Studio: The fastest way for designers and marketers to drag and drop visuals into 1800+ device mockups.
● Artgrid: A high-quality video library.
● StickPNG: Photo gallery of .png images.
● SmartMockups: Create stunning mockups online.
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Create communities and interact with:
I recommend that you create a community as soon as possible to create a sense of belonging and co-creation among community members, this sense of co-creation will strengthen your confidence in the project. However, growing a community by attracting new members and increasing community engagement can be a pain. Fortunately for you, a number of tools allow you to easily grow your community while increasing member engagement:
● Crew3: Users who contribute to the community can get corresponding tokens and NFT rewards.
● Tweetdeck: Tweetdeck is a community management platform built specifically for Twitter. Lets you follow specific feeds, hashtags, lists, scheduled tweets, messages, and more.
● Tweetpic: Use TweetPic to create beautiful Twitter screenshots. There are more than 10 themes, 15 text styles and different customization options to create beautiful Twitter screenshots.
● SweepWidget: Create contests and prizes.
● Buffer: Community automation management tool.
● MEE6: The easiest-to-use dashboard to configure auditing, leveling, Twitch alerts, and more.
● JuiceBox: Programmable funding protocol to raise funds for projects and plan spending, on top of which communities can also be built.
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Build your Web3 offer/product:
One of the most important parts of a startup venture is definitely the stage of building your offer/product. This step takes time because your offer is never really finished and has to be continuously improved, modernized, etc. Whether you're building an agency or SaaS, the building phase of your product must make it accessible.
● Whimsical: Create wireframes, flowcharts, and user flow diagrams.
● Milanote: visual design.
● Figma: collaborative design of products and interfaces.
● Thirdweb: Another emerging platform is Thirdweb, which allows you to easily connect DApps, create NFTs, and has a simple, code-free, user-friendly interface.
● Buildspace: This is an excellent place for Web3 beginners or developers who want to learn new skills. The platform offers a wealth of easy-to-learn material and a developer community to support you.
● Moralis: One of the best Web3 infrastructure providers, allowing developers to easily interact with many Web3 services, such as authentication, NFT, on-chain data, and smart contracts.
● Alchemy: Alchemy is one of the biggest unicorns in the field of blockchain infrastructure and Web3. With a huge valuation of $10 billion in 2022, Alchemy provides Web3 developers and companies with an easy backend for Ethereum blockchain development.
● Infura: Infura provides Web3 infrastructure, similar to Alchemy. They provide high-quality Ethereum API and IPFS API, which is the backbone of Ethereum Dapps.
● Torus: Torus is a user-friendly, secure and non-custodial DApp key management system. The wallet allows you to log in with Facebook, Google and other OAuth providers.
● Webflow: Create, collaborate and scale beautiful websites in a fully visual canvas.
● Undraw.co: It is a collection of open-source illustrations for websites and applications to make websites attractive and aesthetically pleasing.
● Zapier: This is the favorite of most developers, SaaS founders and entrepreneurs. This is an automated tool. Use it once and you'll love it.
● Hotjar: Heatmaps and analytics for tools.
● PanelBear: Track user activity to optimize your website for high conversion rates. This tool monitors your network requests, backends, load times and everything.
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Protect your Web3 products:
If you decide to build a Web3 product using blockchain components, you will be exposed to cyber-attacks and code vulnerabilities, which can be serious if money is involved. To address this, any Web3 project must determine the security of its code and technology before launching. Many tools are available to make sure there are no problems in your code, and I strongly recommend you use them:
● MythX: Verify the correctness of smart contracts.
● Infura: Set up and run an Ethereum node.
● Waffle: smart contract testing.
● Remix: The Remix IDE allows developing, deploying and managing smart contracts for Ethereum-like blockchains.
● StaySAFU: The SAFU scanner allows you to quickly assess the security of a project in seconds, by studying its liquidity, smart contract code, holders and many other factors, token owners cannot deceive you.
● Embark: Build and deploy smart contracts.
● UseDapp: Dapp development framework library.
● NFT Storage: Free, decentralized storage and bandwidth for NFTs on IPFS and Filecoin. This is a long-term storage service designed for off-chain NFT data such as metadata, images, and other assets, with uploads of up to 31GiB in size per upload.
● Web3 Storage: The easiest way to store data is on a decentralized network. The platform provides an easy way to store your data quickly via API. (fast and free)
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Promote your Web3 startup:
This is another important milestone in the development of a Web3 startup, the marketing phase of the product. I suggest you promote your product while building it and see if your offer actually makes the customer happy.
● Mobula.fi: Decentralized data aggregator (token, NFT).
● WaitlistPanda: The easiest way to gather leads and build an audience, creating “viral” waitlists, social referrals, and more.
● Buffer: community management automation.
● Emelia: simplified processing, detailed and accurate statistics.
● Lemlist: Personalize emails, automatically follow up, and engage with leads across all channels. Lemlist combines your sales automation and email software in one.
● Viral Loops: create marketing proposals.
● Collect.chat: The leading intelligent chatbot.
● Pipefy: Marketing and business workflow automation.
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Meet other Web3 project founders:
One of the main ways to quickly grow a Web3 startup is to form partnerships with other Web3 project founders. From a technical standpoint, the interoperability of blockchains makes cooperation and collaboration critical. Bottom line, collaborations are one of the easiest, cheapest and most powerful strategies to advertise your product. There are several tools that can help you form partnerships in Web3. I share them with you today:
● UpStreamApp: Join the DAO and meet new people at online events around the world focused on cryptocurrencies and Web3.
● Crypto Events [by Crypto Nomads Club]: Crypto Nomads Club is an alpha community for digital nomads and frequent travelers who meet at various crypto events around the world.
● TheHiveIndex: Discover the best Web3 online communities.
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Manage your funds:
Web3 is characterized by decentralization and freedom, but don't forget to manage cash flow. You will have to focus on entrepreneurial results, the inflow and outflow of money. For Web3 startups, you might manage your cash flow in cryptocurrency. Fortunately for you, there are some tools that can help you keep track of your crypto accounts/wallets:
● Koinly: Generate cryptocurrency tax returns for you in minutes.
● Cryptio: Enterprise-grade accounting, auditing and tax software for cryptocurrencies
● Coinpanda: Track your crypto holdings, calculate your crypto taxes
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