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Re: Instant Company

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Re: Instant Company

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I think these 'what products and services does your startup use' type articles are more interesting than the usesthis series about what tools developers use.

Somebody should setup a blog where they interview a startup founder each week and just ask them to list services they use along with a mini single-paragraph review of each.

Edit: after thinking about it, I might just do this as a weekend project. A quick search and I couldn't find anything similar, the closest I remember is the Ajaxian blog startup interviews which they stopped doing. If you would like your startup featured email me, ill be reaching out to a few people so if there is interest I will likely get it going

Re: Instant Company

#14
For a web-based company, I would add Amazon Web Services(AWS) at the top of the list.

AWS is relatively expensive but if you are a startup with a limited amount of capital and need to scale quickly, it allows you to utilize a corporate grade web/computing/server/database infrastructure without having to build one yourself.

Re: Instant Company

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post #12

I think these 'what products and services does your startup use' type articles are more interesting than the usesthis series about what tools developers use. Somebody should setup a blog where they interview a startup founder each week and just ask them to list services they use along with a mini single-paragraph review of each. Edit: after thinking about it, I might just do this as a weekend project. A quick search…

These pop up quite often and personally I find them quite boring.

A lot of it is personal choice, e.g. IRC & campfire being 'laggy', for me Google apps is meh apart from mail/calendar, you better pony up for MS office if you're dealing with a lot of other businesses, themeforest I find extremely hard to find a decent looking, well written html template, most of them are div crazy, extremely heavy CSS/js payloads or use cufon, kerrschpitt.

And assistly looks like a total rip off at $69 p/m per user (to me anyway).

I mean swipe might make an interesting submission in itself, but the homepage is light on details, looks like it's in a closed beta, which probably means US only, no good for me.

Anyway tl;dr is that the tools your business uses are very personal choices of services many of us already know about, I find them dull.

What's more interesting is what's missing, no accounting system, no bug tracking, no server uptime monitor, no analytics, no A/B testing.

Re: Instant Company

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Great list! Using a few of those myself If i can be cheeky I'd love an intro to the guys at Stripe, think it was a fair few months ago I registered my email for their Beta and would love to implement it for my startup.

Hey (Saikat from Stripe) -- not cheeky at all, but certainly flattering. Sorry we've been kind of quiet (we do read Hacker News, though). We're just working hard to implement the feedback we've been getting from our existing users, and we want to make sure our product scales well and gets better as new people use it. Here's a question: any chance you would be interested in having us watch you integrate Stripe? We've…

Stripe was something on the article I hadn't heard of before. It just seems so logical for cardholder information to go directly from the customer to the payment processor using javascript that I wonder why it hasn't been done before and what you're doing differently. Can you explain?

Re: Instant Company

#17
Great list, but to me the last two items aren't like the others. Everything about starting tech companies has gotten easier and cheaper, but accountants and lawyers haven't really changed all that much.

He didn't specify exactly how much they are paying for those two, but it still sounds like it will be a fairly beefy hourly rate or a retainer + equity. I think for a boostrapped company these are still your two really big overhang costs where people end up weighing going without or dyi versus committing to legal or accounting as your biggest up front operating expense.

Of the two, I'd say accounting has probably changed the most, there are plenty of workable software solutions for keeping books that aren't too bad and it seems like there are plenty of people trying to build startups around that particular problem. Can't say the same on the legal item though.

Re: Instant Company

#18

What advantage do these group chat apps have over something like Skype?

No spammers, for one. Skype’s iOS app is absolutely terrible for chat, too; HipChat’s is passable, and of course with IRC you will have a few options.

Re: Instant Company

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post #12

I think these 'what products and services does your startup use' type articles are more interesting than the usesthis series about what tools developers use. Somebody should setup a blog where they interview a startup founder each week and just ask them to list services they use along with a mini single-paragraph review of each. Edit: after thinking about it, I might just do this as a weekend project. A quick search…

Great idead! Call it usesthese.com.

Re: Instant Company

#20
post #12

I think these 'what products and services does your startup use' type articles are more interesting than the usesthis series about what tools developers use. Somebody should setup a blog where they interview a startup founder each week and just ask them to list services they use along with a mini single-paragraph review of each. Edit: after thinking about it, I might just do this as a weekend project. A quick search…

I'd be really interested in this if you do it! I was thinking about doing this myself for security/infrastructure questions (blog + video interviews) as a research and sales tool (I'm building a security product company), but I guess business infrastructure questions might be popular too.

Are you a bay area person?

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