SaaS tools that get things done for tech startups

With all these fees, how tf do you make any profit?

Travis CI and Solarwinds on the list eh...

When I was younger I thought it is cool to be admin and have access to stuff, run things on my own being like Neo in Matrix.

Then I had admin access to wi-fi router in dorm, it stopped being funny when people shitty laptops could not connect and they would blame you or for any kind of connection issue for that matter :)

Then I had a job with support duty, 1 A.M. calls because you need to check logs are not cool.

Now I don't want to have any privileges unless I really cannot do my work. If I don't have to run some application and someone else is getting called for outage or I can say that is our provider can't do much - I am definitely making company I work for - pay to another company and stay out of equation.

If I run some software for myself by myself I am not going to pay for that - but as soon as other people are involved I would tell them to go and buy that service. If it is work related even more so.

As someone who operates a small tech company (<5 employees), I can't relate to using all these products. However, our needs are different than the author's. Given that they're paying $800+ USD/month, I suspect their monthly revenue and the time saved from these tools justifies their cost.

I'm not a dev, so some of the dev specific tools I can't speak to, but after looking through this list, for biz admin I suggest looking at Zoho One -- it literally has 90 percent of the tools already and they're integrated, for one price per user. It's been incredible for me as a freelancer to have one place and one price for all my needs: docs, mail, social, email campaigns, transactional email, website, crm, invoicing, books, appointments, webinars, meetings, project management, helpdesk, ecommerce etc... It's a pretty robust platform (and for a one-person operation it's less than $500 a year)

I don't work for them, I'm just a fan.