Amazing list. I am wondering how do you handle signatures
Instant Company
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#22eFAX !?!?? eFAX is evil when you try to close your service - you have to go through their horrid 'chat' system and even then I had to cancel my credit card to get them to stop charging. And no... it's not just me: http://daviddahl.blogspot.com/2006/05/efax-sucks.html
Launched http://phaxio.com into beta a couple of weeks ago...shoot me an email if you'd like an invite (email in profile)
Re: Instant Company
#23eFAX !?!?? eFAX is evil when you try to close your service - you have to go through their horrid 'chat' system and even then I had to cancel my credit card to get them to stop charging. And no... it's not just me: http://daviddahl.blogspot.com/2006/05/efax-sucks.html
Launched http://phaxio.com into beta a couple of weeks ago...shoot me an email if you'd like an invite (email in profile)
Any way to upload or email a PDF?
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#24I think these 'what products and services does your startup use' type articles are more interesting than the usesthis series about what tools developers use. Somebody should setup a blog where they interview a startup founder each week and just ask them to list services they use along with a mini single-paragraph review of each. Edit: after thinking about it, I might just do this as a weekend project. A quick search…
Appsumo does it already with their tools of the trade series - http://blog.appsumo.com/
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#25Great list! Using a few of those myself If i can be cheeky I'd love an intro to the guys at Stripe, think it was a fair few months ago I registered my email for their Beta and would love to implement it for my startup.
Hey (Saikat from Stripe) -- not cheeky at all, but certainly flattering. Sorry we've been kind of quiet (we do read Hacker News, though). We're just working hard to implement the feedback we've been getting from our existing users, and we want to make sure our product scales well and gets better as new people use it. Here's a question: any chance you would be interested in having us watch you integrate Stripe? We've…
Hey Saikat,
Absolutely, could do it over some screen sharing or something, email on the way.
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#26I think these 'what products and services does your startup use' type articles are more interesting than the usesthis series about what tools developers use. Somebody should setup a blog where they interview a startup founder each week and just ask them to list services they use along with a mini single-paragraph review of each. Edit: after thinking about it, I might just do this as a weekend project. A quick search…
These pop up quite often and personally I find them quite boring. A lot of it is personal choice, e.g. IRC & campfire being 'laggy', for me Google apps is meh apart from mail/calendar, you better pony up for MS office if you're dealing with a lot of other businesses, themeforest I find extremely hard to find a decent looking, well written html template, most of them are div crazy, extremely heavy CSS/js payloads or u…
You're right; Swipe is in closed beta at the moment. An email never hurts though
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#27What advantage do these group chat apps have over something like Skype?
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#28Their committment to free/open source software is astounding!
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey (Saikat from Stripe) -- not cheeky at all, but certainly flattering. Sorry we've been kind of quiet (we do read Hacker News, though). We're just working hard to implement the feedback we've been getting from our existing users, and we want to make sure our product scales well and gets better as new people use it. Here's a question: any chance you would be interested in having us watch you integrate Stripe? We've…
Stripe was something on the article I hadn't heard of before. It just seems so logical for cardholder information to go directly from the customer to the payment processor using javascript that I wonder why it hasn't been done before and what you're doing differently. Can you explain?
Well, hosted payment is not a new thing at all - so you iframe or link to a page you don't host which the customer uses - thus ensuring that card details don't hit your servers and don't give you a PCI surface.
This is a fairly logical extension, I would guess that the reason it hasn't caught on more is because a JS requirement has typically been a red flag in e-commerce - 3% of users not being able to pay you once they got to that point of a funnel could be seen as disaster. Interesting, because we're looking at mandating JS in our new developments (background: company I work for does a lot of high end e-commerce - we're specialists).
In theory it's a good idea (that side of it at least) but I don't know how security perception and customer acceptance rates will go.
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#30eFAX !?!?? eFAX is evil when you try to close your service - you have to go through their horrid 'chat' system and even then I had to cancel my credit card to get them to stop charging. And no... it's not just me: http://daviddahl.blogspot.com/2006/05/efax-sucks.html
I've been pretty satisfied ringcentral. 800 number for voice and fax.