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Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition

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Post by seldo »

This is our current list; I'm ignoring ones we've stopped using or haven't really started using properly yet.

Github - obviously

AWS - obviously

Ylastic - easier AWS management

Sendgrid - mail delivery

Stripe - payment processing

Pingdom - external uptime tracking

PagerDuty - ops alerting and scheduling

Xero - accounting

JIRA - task management (the hosted version at Atlassian)

Desk - support tickets

Crashplan - personal machine backups

Google Docs/Mail - everything else

Others have been mentioning Fabric, Puppet, Graphite, Nagios -- we use these but they're not hosted services, so not sure they fit.

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition

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Post by boundlessdreamz »

netshade wrote: post #69
garrettdimon wrote: post #22

I've been assembling a list of these lately for a book that I'm working on. ( http://startingandsustaining.com ) Some of the categories are fairly loose as some apps don't fit nicely into categorical buckets, but hopefully this is a helpful list. --Browser/Email Testing BrowserStack ( http://www.browserstack.com ) Litmus ( http://litmus.com ) --Bug/Issue Tracking BugHerd ( http://bugherd.com ) Lighthouse ( http://lig…

Awesome, great to see Instrumental ( https://instrumentalapp.com/ ) in your list. I'm one of the folks working on it, would love to hear your thoughts on us. Some quick reviews of some of the products listed: * Lighthouse ( http://lighthouseapp.com ) - Bug Tracker - good for keeping track of simple stuff last I used it (~2 years ago), but Github Issues obviated its use for me. * Pivotal ( http://www.pivotaltracker.co…

Your demo is failing for me. Also does it show percentiles and alerts based on some rules?

Edit: That was due to JS being disabled in my browser

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition

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Post by netshade »

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #74
netshade wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome, great to see Instrumental ( https://instrumentalapp.com/ ) in your list. I'm one of the folks working on it, would love to hear your thoughts on us. Some quick reviews of some of the products listed: * Lighthouse ( http://lighthouseapp.com ) - Bug Tracker - good for keeping track of simple stuff last I used it (~2 years ago), but Github Issues obviated its use for me. * Pivotal ( http://www.pivotaltracker.co…

Your demo is failing for me. Also does it show percentiles and alerts based on some rules? Edit: That was due to JS being disabled in my browser

Percentiles is a feature we're planning on adding at some point in the future, though we have customers calculating it themselves right now using things like metriks-instrumental ( https://github.com/netshade/metriks-instrumental ).

Alerts is actually in beta right now :) - we're testing it out with a few customers. It's based on our query language, and alerts you with a graph of the problem when the event occurs. ( or updates an HTTP endpoint you control, if you wish )

edit: I forgot to mention, my apologies you encountered an error. We've been living on the edge of browser support land for the time being, and could do a better job letting you know that you're not meeting the minimum reqs.

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition

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Post by philfreo »

garrettdimon wrote: post #22

I've been assembling a list of these lately for a book that I'm working on. ( http://startingandsustaining.com ) Some of the categories are fairly loose as some apps don't fit nicely into categorical buckets, but hopefully this is a helpful list. --Browser/Email Testing BrowserStack ( http://www.browserstack.com ) Litmus ( http://litmus.com ) --Bug/Issue Tracking BugHerd ( http://bugherd.com ) Lighthouse ( http://lig…

You're missing a pretty important category tools used to communicate automatically with users. Mixpanel and KISS have some features like this, but there's others more focused on it. Customer.io, Intercom.io, etc.
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