indie-tools

• nodesign.dev - resources for non-artistic devs
• Heroicons - free, open-source SVG icons
• Icons8 - free icons, music, stock photos, vector illustrations.
• Fontello - create your own icon sets.
• Jolloficons - Free 3D, isometric, and abstract icons and emojis.
• Undraw - free illustrations. Other options: Scale, Humaaans (human-focused).
• Unsplash - free stock photos. Other options: Pexels, Pixabay, Pikwizard (human-focused).
• Iconscout - high quality, editable icons, illustration and stock photos.
• VectorLogoZone - freely-downloadable brand logos as vector SVGs. Other options: Clearbit Logo API
• Freepik - free vector art, photos and PSD downloads.
• FlatIcons - free vector icons in SVG, PSD, PNG, and base64 formats.
• Tint and Shade Generator - generate tints and shades of any colour.
• Metatags - generate social media previews.
• HeyMeta - test how links to your site would show up on social media.
• Favicon.io - generate favicons, free and easy.
• LogoHub - free and easy logo generation.
• Cruip - free landing page templates.
• Cool Backgrounds - free background images/patterns. Other options: Hero Patterns, Novapattern, Flaticon.
• Mixkit - free motion backgrounds/videos. Other options: coverr.
• FREE FRONTEND - hand-picked HTML and CSS code examples, tutorials and articles.
• Dribbble - UI design inspiration. Other options: Uplabs, Collect UI.
• Soundbible - free sound clips and effects.
• Paletton - build color palettes to use in your site or app. Other options: Coolors.
• Emoji builder - just in case you need custom emojis, for whatever reason :eyes:.
• I wish there was an app for... - if you're looking for ideas.
• Excalidraw - create illustrations with a hand-drawn look and feel
• Photopea - edit photos online with ease without downloading software.
• Magic Mockups - generate free mockups for use on your websites or portfolios.

Contributing to this list

• If there are any useful resources not included here, do send a PR.
• Please follow the existing format of entries.
• Try to keep related resources next to each other.
• Keep descriptions short and simple.
• Add alternatives to a pre-existing entry using the "Other options: " style, for easy discovery.
• Please only add high-quality items to this list. Quality is subjective, but the ideal additions to this list should not be difficult to use or spam the users.
• Tools that are free/open-source are preferred. The idea of this list is to provide low-cost yet quality product development tools.