Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by pj » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 3:39 PM UTC

qrimp.com

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by nader » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 3:46 PM UTC

We use compuccino time track in relation with basecamp for all our project / time management. For invoices and quotations it's still words since it's more flexible than any tool out there.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by zacharypinter » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 3:55 PM UTC

rjurney wrote: post #15

EC2. I run an XL instance and do any actual program execution on it while I code. How often are you waiting on your computer? How much is your time worth, compared to $0.80 an hour?

Can you explain this setup a little more? What type of applications are you working on and in what language? How do you send code quickly to the server (i.e., do you have to commit code before you execute)?

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by rjurney » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:02 PM UTC

zacharypinter wrote: post #63

rjurney wrote: post #15

EC2. I run an XL instance and do any actual program execution on it while I code. How often are you waiting on your computer? How much is your time worth, compared to $0.80 an hour?

Can you explain this setup a little more? What type of applications are you working on and in what language? How do you send code quickly to the server (i.e., do you have to commit code before you execute)?

When I'm waiting on code, I'm usually doing database stuff. At the moment I've been working on the same database conversion for weeks, that takes a few minutes to run on an XL instance, and about half an hour on my macbook pro.

I have an svn checkout on the EC2 box (which I update each reboot), and I scp the file I'm working on over for test runs in between commits. I'd use rsync if it were a bunch of files at once, but it usually isn't.

It also sometimes runs Perl/Catalyst web apps.

I save the image each day (when I remember to turn it off), but a smarter setup would be to simply mount my working directories on an EBS mount.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by ryanvm » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:03 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #13

Hacker News. This is not a joke. I realize that hn is not a web app in the classic sense, but I get far more value from hn than any webapp. Let me explain... I learned long ago that increasing productivity was like "striking out the pitcher". You got small, easily measured, and much appreciated improvements. But the real improvements come in major shifts in thinking and processing. I once had a choice of 2 projects t…

Oh brother - what a circle jerk

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by jasonlbaptiste » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:10 PM UTC

I started using Evernote. Few reasons I like it and continue to use it:

* Can capture whiteboards and make data searchable. Was very useful after brainstorming this weekend. * Has multiple options for using: Web, Cocoa App, iPhone * Easy to use for simple things such as todo lists, jotting notes, voice recordings,etc.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by pmuk » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:12 PM UTC

greengirl512 wrote: post #41

madmotive wrote: post #9

This changed my life: http://freeagentcentral.com Biggest benefits if you are UK based. Blew Freshbooks out of the water from my perspective.

Oh wow...I like it! In fact I like it so much I may even overcome the inertia I referenced earlier and switch over. Thank you!

Another one to try is http://www.clearbooks.co.uk

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by zaidf » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:14 PM UTC

Gmail. When its ajax is not acting up.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by huherto » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:21 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #13

Hacker News. This is not a joke. I realize that hn is not a web app in the classic sense, but I get far more value from hn than any webapp. Let me explain... I learned long ago that increasing productivity was like "striking out the pitcher". You got small, easily measured, and much appreciated improvements. But the real improvements come in major shifts in thinking and processing. I once had a choice of 2 projects t…

  "...But the real improvements come in major shifts in thinking and processing."

Or as Alan Kay put it "Perspective is worth 80 IQ points." The more I think about it the more I agree.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by pageman » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:23 PM UTC

Heroku/Herokugarden - in terms of teaching my students how to deploy an ecommerce app in less than an hour (actually 31 minutes). This would have taken A LOT MORE TIME if there was no such thing as instant deployment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0WhxO0W_n4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0RHqRHyvA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUG4mf29ZQ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE2YkzKPf0o