expensify -> brex
sendgrid -> mailgun
travis -> probably anything else
SaaS tools that get things done for tech startups
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#22With all these fees, how tf do you make any profit?
As soon as your company can afford to hire a single full-time employee, most of these fees seem pretty inconsequential. And if you haven't hired any employees, you're probably in bootstrapping mode, so you're betting on becoming profitable before running out of runway.
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#23Surprised to see Travis CI on that list. Intercom also gets fairly expensive.
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#24Good list. It's a little surprising that Google still can't bundle a better chat application in Google Workspace.
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#25Travis CI and Solarwinds on the list eh...
I'm a daily user of Papertrail. It's starting to grow too expensive for our team ($100/16 GB). Still I haven't found an alternative with instant text search and infinite scroll. The ability to quickly scroll through the logs has proven to be crucial to debugging critical problems. I'm having a hard time filtering through JSON logs in Grafana/Elastic search/cloud-native log engine.
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#26expensify -> brex sendgrid -> mailgun travis -> probably anything else
As someone who moved from Mandrill to Sendgrid, and not exactly satisfied...can you tell me what Mailgun does better?
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#27With all these fees, how tf do you make any profit?
If spending like a hundred dollars per month per employee on productivity tools is sinking your business then you have much bigger problems.
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#28I'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, invoic…
My roots are in engineering, and I agree wholeheartedly: zoho one is a no-brainer compared to having to cobble together solutions for standard business functions from a dozen vendors at triple the aggregate cost. Just the savings vs QBO or Xero makes it worthwhile.
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#29I'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, invoic…
Which tools?
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#30Travis CI and Solarwinds on the list eh...
They mentioned GH actions also. So maybe they switched?