Free AI tools startups should start using today to save time, money, and sanity 🚀

💡 1. Veo 3 – Your viral video team without the camera crew

Let’s be real – shooting videos is expensive, tiring, and often doesn’t match your vision.

With Veo 3, you can generate realistic videos from simple prompts, like:

Imagine creating reels, product teasers, or emotional brand videos without paying ₹30,000 per shoot.

🔥 Why it matters: You can test multiple video ideas, see what resonates, and double down without burning your budget upfront.

💡 2. Hostinger AI Website Builder – Your website agency in a browser

How many launches have you delayed because your website wasn’t ready?

With Hostinger’s AI Website Builder, you input a few lines about your business, and it builds:

✅ Homepages
✅ About pages
✅ Service sections
✅ Contact forms

…all with copy, layout, and images integrated.

Example:

Within minutes, you get a clean, functional website ready to publish.

🔥 Why it matters: You no longer wait for web developers to reply or pay ₹15,000-₹50,000 just to go online.

🔥 3. Apollo- Finding Leads & Sending Outreach Emails

📧 Problem: Prospecting takes hours, and most Indian founders rely on manual LinkedIn scraping or buying unreliable email lists.

💡 AI Solution: Apollo.io

✅ Find verified B2B emails filtered by job title, company size, and geography.
Example: Marketing heads in edtech companies with 50-200 employees in Bangalore.

✅ Automate cold email sequences and follow-ups.

✅ Note:

• Best for targeting global B2B clients (US, EU, UK)

• Limited Indian SMB founder data

• Free plan has 50 emails/month; paid starts at ~$49/month

🔥 Result: Saves hours on prospecting if your target is international B2B. For local SMBs, manual LinkedIn + phone outreach may still be needed.

💡 4. ChatGPT Plus – Your creative director on demand

Ever sat for hours thinking of what your poster should say?

👉 Use ChatGPT Plus to write catchy poster headlines and taglines, localised for your audience.
Prompt: “Write 10 powerful Hindi-English slogans for a coaching centre poster targeting IIT-JEE aspirants with urgency and emotional appeal.”

Then ask it to suggest layout ideas:
Prompt: “Describe a poster layout with bold headline, emotional image, and a clear call-to-action for print.”

Combine this with DALL-E to generate poster images that you can directly send for print and stick across colleges, markets, and local hotspots – without waiting for your designer’s 4th revision.

🔥 Why it matters: You stop overthinking design and start executing campaigns faster.

👉 Bottom line:

AI isn’t hype. It’s how you execute faster, fail cheaper, and scale smarter.

💭 What’s one thing in your startup this week that AI could handle instead of you?

💭 Which AI tools are currently helping you the most, and how?

Comment below – let’s build a real, practical AI toolkit for startup founders!