What set of utilities and services (online or offline) do you use to manage your startup? There are obviously many possible needs, like book-keeping, private and secure sharing and backing up of files, communication between co-founders and partners, customer care and ticket handling, etc... I'm not clueless about these subjects, but I'd like to hear what the HN community recommends.
Ask HN: What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup?
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#2Planning: Pivotal Tracker.
Finance: Kashflow.
Todos: Basecamp.
SVN: Beanstalk.
Tickets: Zendesk.
Files [internal, collaboration & sharing]: Dropbox.
Email: Google Docs.
Re: Ask HN: What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup?
#3Github, Campfire & Basecamp, and Google Apps for Domains.
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#4PM: Basecamp
Finance: OSX Numbers
Billing: iBiz
Files/Hybrid SVN: Dropbox
External Com: OtherInbox.com
Internal Com: GTalk, Skype, iChat, etc.
Documents: OSX Pages and Google Docs
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#5As a freelancer:
Misc: Backpack
Project proposals: Writeboard
Invoicing: Freshbooks
Source control: Github
Bugs: Redmine and Pivotal Tracker
Other docs: Google Docs
To dos: Things
Files: Dropbox
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#6I'm not happy with my mix yet, and spend too much time trying out new things. Here's what I'm currently using:
PM: Google notebook, Google calendar, "Stickies app" (Tomboy)
Finance: sigh still looking
Files: Dropbox
Communications: GMail, Skype (NOT Twitter)
Documents: Mix Google Docs & OpenOffice. I've started using Etherpad quite a bit as well.
Invoicing & Billing: Still looking for something that fits my needs, Spreadsheets & Docs for now
Source code: Local SNV server, thinking about Github
Re: Ask HN: What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup?
#7In no particular order:
Bitbucket (mercurial hosting), Gmail, Komodo Edit, Dropbox, Gtalk, Zoho Docs
For the record I know Komodo isnt really "management" but as it's the most crucial part of my workflow.... :)
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#8I am a single programmer startup. Still working on my website.
TortoiseSVN (source control) is the only thing I am using as of now.
I have a to-do.txt in my desktop to remind me of what next. I use Gmail to communicate and StackOverflow to get help. Since I haven't completed building my application, I never needed other services to manage the work.
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#9As a freelancer: Misc: Backpack Project proposals: Writeboard Invoicing: Freshbooks Source control: Github Bugs: Redmine and Pivotal Tracker Other docs: Google Docs To dos: Things Files: Dropbox
As a freelancer :
Project management : BaseCamp
Personnal GTD improvement : RescueTime
Invoices & estimates : Freshbooks
Accounting : my accountant uses Simply Accounting (Windows app on my vmware box)
Files : dropbox
Source control : Git on RepositoryHosting.com (6$/month and i can manage any number of SVN/Git repositories. And it just works)
Synch iCal with google calendar
Synch contacts with Plaxo
Re: Ask HN: What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup?
#10This wiki was created to list what tools are used by which startups. http://startuptools.pbworks.com/