1. CODE ACADEMY

Codecademy is an American online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including "Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, and Swift", as well as markup languages "HTML and CSS". The site also offers a paid "Pro" option that gives users access to personalized learning plans, quizzes, and realistic projects.

It's an online platform offering coding courses for beginners to learn programming languages.

Founders: Zach Sims & Ryan Bubinski

Founded: August 2011, New York, United States

Website: https://www.codeacademy.com

2. CANVA

Canva is an online graphic design platform that is used to create social media graphics and presentations. The company has announced it intends to compete with Google and Microsoft in the office software category with website and whiteboard products. It's a graphic design platform that enables beginners to create professional designs and presentations.

Canva makes designing beautiful creative assets easy for everyone. From social media images, videos and gifs to posters, websites, booklets, multimedia presentations, and heaps more. Canva is an invaluable tool for helping you level up your design skills, even if you're just getting started.

Founders: Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, Cameron Adams

Founded: 28 June 2012, Perth, Australia

Website: Canva https://www.canva.com

3. GRAMMARLY

This is a writing assistant tool that helps beginners improve their grammar and writing skills. Grammarly is more than just a proofreader. It’s a tool that helps you write with confidence, find the best words to express yourself, and communicate your ideas with ease.

Grammarly’s generative AI capabilities allow you to produce contextually relevant drafts, ideas, replies, and more on demand. Grammarly’s advanced spelling checker and grammar checker go far beyond the built-in tools of word processors. Grammarly can detect not only misspellings, but also commonly confused words used in the wrong context, like “affect” and “effect.”

In addition, it can flag and fix complex grammar and punctuation issues like "sentence fragments, comma splices, and subject-verb disagreement". But great writing is about much more than just grammar and spelling. That’s why Grammarly also helps you streamline wordy phrases and rewrite sentences that are likely to confuse readers.

Founders: Max Lytvyn, Alex Shevchenko, and Dmytro Lider

Founded: 2009, San Francisco, California, USA.

Website: https://www.grammarly.com

4. TRELLO

A project management tool that helps beginners organize and manage their tasks and projects. Trello is a popular, simple, and easy-to-use collaboration tool that enables you to organize projects and everything related to them into boards. Trello is the flexible work management tool where teams can ideate plans, collaborate on projects, organize workflows, and track progress in a visual, productive, and rewarding way. From brainstorm to planning to execution.

Trello manages the big milestones and the day-to-day tasks of working together and getting things done. Trello allows organizations to connect their team's applications to the Trello workflow. There are hundreds of Power-Ups/integrations available to make workflow seamless.

Founder: Joel Spolsky

Founded: 2011, in New York City

Website: https://www.trello.com

5. DUOLINGO

A language learning app that is perfect for beginners looking to learn a new language. It is an American educational technology company that produces learning apps and provides language certification. Duolingo offers courses on music, math and over 40 languages, from popular languages such as "English, French, and Spanish" to less commonly studied languages such as "Welsh, Irish, and Swahili".

Other services include the Duolingo English Test certification program; "Duolingo ABC", a literacy app for children. The company uses a freemium model, with its optional premium service, Super Duolingo, being ad-free and offering more features. As of February 2023, Duolingo was the most popular language learning app in the world based on monthly downloads, with almost 13.4 million users downloading the app that month.

Founders: Luis von Ahn, Severin Hacker

Founded: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Website: https://www.duolingo.com

6. SHOPIFY

An e-commerce platform that enables beginners to create and manage their own online store. Shopify is a user-friendly e-commerce platform that helps small businesses build an online store and sell online through one streamlined dashboard. Shopify merchants can build a modern online store and sell on social media sites, seller marketplaces, other blogs and websites and via email, text and chat. In-person selling is a snap on Shopify too, with its built-in point-of-sale (POS) for retail stores, pop-up shops, market sales and more.

Founders: Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, Scott Lake

Founded: 2006, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Website: https://www.shopify.com

7. HAX ACCELERATOR

A program built for pre-seed startups solving hard problems with hard tech. HAX is the world’s first and most active program focused on pre-seed, hard tech startups working on sustainability across climate, industrial automation and human health. With a flagship 35,000 square foot facility in Newark and also offices in Shenzhen, San Francisco, Pune and Tokyo, Hax program provides 6-month collaborative residency, hands-on engineering support, and an initial investment package of $250,000.

Hax excel at teaching founders how to tap into the world’s premier ecosystems for real-world product development, manufacturing and fundraising. The 250+ HAX graduates since 2012 have raised nearly $2 billion and have a cumulative value of more than $8 billion.

Founders: Cyril Ebersweiler, Sean O'Sullivan

Founded: 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Website: https://www.hax.co

8. SLACK

A communication tool that helps beginners collaborate and communicate with team members effectively. Slack is a cloud-based freemium cross-platform team communication tool that can be used for collaboration created by Slack Technologies and currently owned by Salesforce. While initially developed for professional and organizational communications, it has also been adopted as a community platform. Users can communicate through text messaging, file and media sharing, voice and video calls in private chats or within communities called "workspaces."

The application incorporates IRC-style elements such as persistent chat rooms (referred to as channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. In addition to these online communication features, Slack can integrate with other software. Slack can be accessed through web browsers, and dedicated clients are available for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, and iOS. In the past, a client was also available for Windows Phone devices, but support for it was discontinued in June 2018.

Founders: Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, Serguei Mourachov

Founded: 2009, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Website: https://www.slack.com

9. AIRBNB

A platform that allows beginners to rent out their properties and earn extra income. It is an American San Francisco based company operating an online marketplace for short- and long-term homestays and experiences. The company acts as a broker and charges a commission from each booking.

The Airbnb is a shortened version of its original name, AirBedandBreakfast.com. Airbnb is the most well-known company for short-term housing rentals.

Founders: Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk

Founded: August 2008, in San Francisco, California, U.S.

Website: https://www.airbnb.com

10. WIX

A website builder that enables beginners to create their own professional-looking websites without any coding knowledge. It is an Israeli software company, publicly listed in the US, that provides cloud-based web development services. It offers tools for creating HTML5 websites and mobile sites using online drag-and-drop editing. Users can add applications for social media, e-commerce, online marketing, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their web sites.

The Wix website builder is built on a freemium business model, earning its revenues through premium upgrades. According to the W3Techs technology survey website, Wix is used by 2.5% of websites as of September 2023

Founders: Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, Giora Kaplan

Founded: 2006

Website: https://www.wix.com