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

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Post by petercooper »

bearwithclaws wrote: post #12

I use these for Hacker Monthly ( http://hackermonthly.com ): SendGrid ( http://sendgrid.com ) - transactional emails (sending digital issues to subscribers). MailChimp ( http://mailchimp.com ) - newsletter. Linode ( http://linode.com ) - VPS hosting. Harvest ( http://getharvest.com ) - invoicing (for corporate customers + advertisers). FetchApp ( http://fetchapp.com ) - digital delivery (for single issue purchase). P…

What sort of things do you have the folks on ODesk doing? Support, editorial..?

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

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Post by St-Clock »

In terms of SaaS, we use:

    github (code review is the killer feature)
    campfire
    jira + greenhopper (no killer feature :-( )
    notableapp (so-so interactions with our designers)
    balsamiq (quick & easy mockups)
    crashplan (easy and cross-platform backups)
    google apps
    google analytics (we have a crazy setup)
I am currently looking into splunkstorm for our log analysis. We are using monit and mmonit (on premise) for alterting and monitoring.

For my open source projects, I use:

  github
  travis-ci
  sourceforge (for the mailing list. any suggestions for alternatives?)

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

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Post by brianr »

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…

Add one for error/exception tracking:

Ratchet.io (http://ratchet.io)

Private beta but public launch is very soon; mention HN for immediate invite.

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

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Post by stock_toaster »

brianr wrote: post #114
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…

Add one for error/exception tracking: Ratchet.io ( http://ratchet.io ) Private beta but public launch is very soon; mention HN for immediate invite.

Been poking around a bit. Looking promising.

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

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Post by casca »

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…

Great list, thank you.

For people looking to use apps, please consider the likelihood and impact of one of these companies disappearing overnight. Some of them are tech startups without a sustainable critical mass and they could shut down at any time.

If your landing page provider stops providing service, it's probably easy to recover if you have copies of all the email address collected. If your planning and project management tool disappears with all your data, there could be a significant cost.

I'd bet that half the services on this page will not exist in a few years time. If the success of your business relies on them trading, pick carefully.

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

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Post by rgrieselhuber »

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…

Great list. I posted a bunch of tools / services we use at Ginzametrics about a month ago (scroll to the bottom):

http://www.ginzametrics.com/blog/2012-in-review-at-ginzametr...

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

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Post by calinet6 »

casca wrote: post #116
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…

Great list, thank you. For people looking to use apps, please consider the likelihood and impact of one of these companies disappearing overnight. Some of them are tech startups without a sustainable critical mass and they could shut down at any time. If your landing page provider stops providing service, it's probably easy to recover if you have copies of all the email address collected. If your planning and project…

There's a problem worth fixing... a service that tracks apps and their "probability of existence in x years." Or something.
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