Cost of tools and services used developing Countly: $0

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Post by onur » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 1:47 PM UTC

Cost of tools and services used developing Countly: $0
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Post by francov88 » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 2:24 PM UTC

Great post Onur, I didnt know Amazon had a free tier! One of my other preferred tools is Trello.com for visual project management.

Great job with Countly! Would have been great to see the workflow you guys employ between the tools + any specific modifications you might have made for an open source tool/community. Maybe next time?

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Post by nicholassmith » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 2:39 PM UTC

Nice round up of tools, I keep forgetting AWS has a free tier, but mostly as I keep getting random issues with it not activating my account properly.

(p.s., the link is pointing to the disqus thread, not the article)

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Post by jrmg » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 2:42 PM UTC

Watch out with that AWS free tier, it's only free for a year.

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Post by Ecio78 » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 2:51 PM UTC

jrmg wrote: post #4

Watch out with that AWS free tier, it's only free for a year.

Also many of the cited services are free only for opensource projects (webstorm ide, transifex, tender etc..)

Re: Cost of tools and services used developing Countly: $0

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Post by onur » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 3:08 PM UTC

Ecio78 wrote: post #5

jrmg wrote: post #4

Watch out with that AWS free tier, it's only free for a year.

Also many of the cited services are free only for opensource projects (webstorm ide, transifex, tender etc..)

That's correct, I mentioned it at the beginning of the post

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Post by onur » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 3:11 PM UTC

francov88 wrote: post #2

Great post Onur, I didnt know Amazon had a free tier! One of my other preferred tools is Trello.com for visual project management. Great job with Countly! Would have been great to see the workflow you guys employ between the tools + any specific modifications you might have made for an open source tool/community. Maybe next time?

I tried Trello before and I think its pretty lightweight and useful.

Great idea about an upcoming post :)

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Post by jroseattle » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 3:52 PM UTC

Nice job with Countly, looks really good.

This has nothing to do with countly per se, but I think the notion of building products with tools & services that have zero acquisition/billing cost is becoming passe. There are so many tools and options available and the growth of the freemium business model around the software space ensures a growing ecosystem that's becoming more and more specialized around those tools & services. I believe we're rapidly approaching an inflection point where use of zero-cost tools & services is nearly expected.

Congrats to the team on the choices made in building the product, though. That's where the real value is in the equation.

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Post by mhartl » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 4:27 PM UTC

The current link is to the comments thread. This is the URL you want:

http://blog.count.ly/post/33777818277/cost-of-tools-and-serv...

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Post by minm » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 4:46 PM UTC

You might want to add Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) to your toolset for file sharing. It works great.