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Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
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Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
#102Earlier 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…
Pivotal: Horrible, abysmal tool. Hate it with a passion. No clear overview at all, UI is full of shiny colors but is messy as hell. I'm really glad we've switched to Jira[1] after fighting with pivotal for a couple of months. YMMV ofcourse :) [1] http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview
Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
#103I'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 might want to trim that down a bit. As it stands it's more an incomplete list of services for each category than a list of favorites.
Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
#104This 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 - perso…
Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
#105Earlier 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…
Pivotal: Horrible, abysmal tool. Hate it with a passion. No clear overview at all, UI is full of shiny colors but is messy as hell. I'm really glad we've switched to Jira[1] after fighting with pivotal for a couple of months. YMMV ofcourse :) [1] http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview
Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
#106This 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 - perso…
I don't think Github is an "obviously" unless you have an open source project. It's really not that hard to set up a git ssh server
Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pivotal: Horrible, abysmal tool. Hate it with a passion. No clear overview at all, UI is full of shiny colors but is messy as hell. I'm really glad we've switched to Jira[1] after fighting with pivotal for a couple of months. YMMV ofcourse :) [1] http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview
I definitely agree with the YMMV bit; I have found this category of tools to be incredibly divisive. I know a lot of folks who thought that going in the opposite direction of yours, Jira to Pivotal, was one of the best decisions they've made for a project. I've only ever casually used Jira, however, so am ill qualified to speak to its strengths.
I think the divisive bit may, in part, be that Pivotal is a strongly opinionated tool while Jira is a fairly customizable and open ended tool.
For projects & teams committed to the process Pivotal champions, it's highly optimized. For teams using a different process, or who need to customize views for different people etc, Jira can provide more options, and be a better fit.
For me personally... at the moment, I really appreciate Pivotal's relative simplicity and the way it encourages folks to focus on the somewhat nearer term.
Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
#108Google Apps
Google Analytics
Blogger
MailChimp
Drupal
Desk
GitHub
Worldpay
Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
#109I'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…
--ANALYTICS
Snowplow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow)
Segment.io (http://segment.io)
--CRM
Close.io (http://close.io),
Streak (http://www.streak.com/)
Base (http://getbase.com)
--SALES
ElasticSales (https://elasticsales.com/)
--CUSTOMER SERVICE
Metaverse Mod Squad (http://metaversemodsquad.com/)
--DATA
Factual (http://www.factual.com/)
--DATABASE
Titan (http://thinkaurelius.com/)
Tinkerpop (http://www.tinkerpop.com/)
Bulbs (http://bulbflow.com)
Datomic (http://datomic.com)
--LOG MONITORING
Logstash (http://logstash.net)
Lumberjack (https://github.com/jordansissel/lumberjack)
Fluentd (http://fluentd.org),
Flume (https://github.com/cloudera/flume)
Kafka (http://sna-projects.com/kafka/)
Scribe (https://github.com/facebook/scribe/)
--ACCOUNTING/INVOICING
Harvest (http://www.getharvest.com/)
Ballpark (http://www.getballpark.com/)
PaySimple (http://paysimple.com/)
AcceptPay (http://acceptpay.com)
FreshBooks (http://www.freshbooks.com/)
FreeAgent (http://www.freeagent.com/)
Blinksale (http://www.blinksale.com/)
--PAYMENTS
Balanced Payements (https://www.balancedpayments.com/)
Dwolla (https://www.dwolla.com/)
-- BANKING
Simple (http://simple.com)
--PHONE/PBX/SMS
Plivo (http://plivo.com/)
Tropo (https://www.tropo.com/)
Twillo (http://www.twilio.com/)
PhoneBooth (http://www.phonebooth.com/)
-- PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Orchestra (http://www.orchestra.com/)
-- RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM
Runa PerfectOffer (http://www.runa.com/products/perfectoffer/)
--SYSTEM MONITORING
Tracelytics (http://www.tracelytics.com) / AppNeta (http://www.appneta.com/)
Riemann (http://riemann.io)
Zipkin (https://github.com/twitter/zipkin/)
Pulse (https://github.com/heroku/pulse/)
--SEARCH
Bonsai (http://www.bonsai.io)
WebSolr (http://websolr.com/)
Swiftype (https://swiftype.com/)
Searchify (http://www.searchify.com/)
CloudSearch (http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/)
SearchBlox (http://www.searchblox.com/)
--SECURITY
Burp (http://www.portswigger.net/burp/intruder.html)
DuoSecurity (https://www.duosecurity.com/)
Authy (https://www.authy.com/)
CryptoSeal (http://cryptoseal.com/)
AnchorFree (http://www.anchorfree.com/)
Cloak (https://www.getcloak.com/)
--SHIPPING
Postmaster.io (https://www.postmaster.io/)
Runa PerfectShipping (http://www.runa.com/products/perfectshipping/)
-- SUPPORT / HELP DESK:
Olark (http://olark.com)
SnapEngage (http://www.snapengage.com/)
--DESIGNERS
Dribble (http://dribbble.com/)
Sortfolio (http://sortfolio.com/)
--NOTES
Evernote (http://evernote.com)
Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
#110- Github (http://github.com) for Open Source and private source code control.
- Bitbucket (http://bitbucket.org) mostly private source code management.
- Linode (http://linode.com) Where I run my virtual servers.
- Trello (http://trello.com) Manages all my projects
- Basecamp (http://basecamp.com) some clients still use it.
- Google Analytics (http://google.com/analytics) Sticking with Google.
- Freshbooks (http://freshbooks.com) For invoicing matters.
- ahref (http://ahrefs.com) Tracking my backlinks.
- Skype (http://skype.com) P2P calls and VoIP.
- Google App (http://google.com/a) Planning to move this year, still on the free plan.
- Gmail (http://gmail.com) still no plans to move yet!