Understand Your Numbers

Google Charts is a free JavaScript library for interactive charts and graphs you can embed on any website. Over 30 chart types. Renders in HTML5/SVG. Connects to Google Sheets as a live data source. Completely free with no limits.

Algolia is a search and discovery API that powers the search bar for over 18,000 websites and apps. If you have ever typed into a search box and watched results appear instantly as you type — that is the kind of experience Algolia delivers. It handles everything from basic keyword search to AI-powered product recommendations, personalized results, and even conversational search powered by generative AI. For small businesses, Algolia shines when you have a product catalog, knowledge base, or content library that your customers need to search through. The platform offers pre-built integrations with popular e-commerce platforms like BigCommerce, Magento, and WordPress, plus developer tools for custom implementations. You get features like typo tolerance, synonym management, and faceted filtering right out of the box. The free tier gives you 10,000 search requests and 100,000 records per month at no cost, which is enough for many small business websites. When you need more, the pay-as-you-go model means you only pay for what you use.

Helicone monitors, debugs, and improves your AI applications. Tracks every LLM API call so you spot errors, control costs, and understand performance. Works with 100+ AI models through a single integration. Free: 10,000 requests/month. Pro: $79/month.

Open-source monitoring and observability platform. Turn data into real-time dashboards and alerts. Connects to 150+ data sources including Prometheus, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and CloudWatch. Free open-source + Grafana Cloud free tier (10K metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces). Paid plans available.

Survey and research platform with 50+ question types, 350+ templates, and AI-powered survey creation. QxBot builds surveys conversationally. Real-time analytics dashboards. Free: unlimited surveys, 200 responses per survey. Paid from $99/user/month.

Analytics for Notion pages — track page views, visitors, countries, time on page, and reader engagement. Embed a tracking widget. Connect to Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel. Pro: $10/month (100 pages). Team: $30/month (unlimited). No free tier.

Apify is a web scraping and automation platform that helps you collect data from any website and feed it into your business workflows, AI applications, or databases. If you have ever needed to pull product prices from a competitor's site, gather leads from social media, monitor online reviews, or crawl websites to train an AI model, Apify provides the tools to do it at scale without building everything from scratch. The platform works through Actors — pre-built or custom scraping tools that run in the cloud. Apify's marketplace offers over 20,000 ready-made Actors for popular sites like Instagram, TikTok, Google Maps, Amazon, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You can run them with a few clicks, schedule them to run on a recurring basis, and export data to Google Sheets, databases, or AI tools. Apify integrates with tools like Zapier, Slack, Google Sheets, Pinecone, and Airbyte. It is SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant with 99.95% uptime. The free plan includes $5 of credits to test with, paid plans start at $29/month, and pricing scales based on compute usage. For SMBs that need web data for competitive research, lead generation, or AI applications, Apify removes the need to hire a developer or manage scraping infrastructure yourself.

Open-source backend platform on PostgreSQL — database, authentication, file storage, edge functions, and real-time subscriptions out of the box. Firebase alternative you can self-host. 99,500+ GitHub stars. Free: 2 projects, 500MB, 50K MAU. Pro: $25/month (8GB, 100K MAU). Team: $599/month (SOC 2).

AI analytics that turns Google Analytics, ad platform, and CRM data into plain-English stories and insights. Connects data sources, monitors changes automatically, sends narrative reports explaining what happened and why. Pro: $82/month. Growth: $449/month. 7-day trial. No free tier.

Hex is a collaborative data workspace — SQL, Python, and no-code tools in one notebook. Build interactive dashboards and apps your team can share. AI agents write queries and explore data for you. Free Community plan. Professional: $36/editor/month.