Tools of the trade, 2012 edition
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I'm assuming it's already on the old list, but I haven't seen Github (http://github.com) listed -- for us, Github is the application we use.
I also haven't seen Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com), but I see a lot of Intercom. Now that Mixpanel has "Engage" (which seems like an Intercom-like thing), is there a compelling reason to use Intercom alongside Mixpanel, or are they mostly overlap?
Another platform I see missing is dotcloud (http://dotcloud.com), which I don't use for everything, but definitely enjoy one-click, hot standby, fault tolerant (well, as tolerant as it can be) MySQL databases.
Last thing we use that I haven't seen listed is Amazon SES (email). I love the no-commitment pricing and paying for what we actually use instead of having to pay a minimum fee and all that.
Also shoutouts for Stripe and Trello.
I also haven't seen Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com), but I see a lot of Intercom. Now that Mixpanel has "Engage" (which seems like an Intercom-like thing), is there a compelling reason to use Intercom alongside Mixpanel, or are they mostly overlap?
Another platform I see missing is dotcloud (http://dotcloud.com), which I don't use for everything, but definitely enjoy one-click, hot standby, fault tolerant (well, as tolerant as it can be) MySQL databases.
Last thing we use that I haven't seen listed is Amazon SES (email). I love the no-commitment pricing and paying for what we actually use instead of having to pay a minimum fee and all that.
Also shoutouts for Stripe and Trello.
Sentry (http://getsentry.com) - Exception tracking
Postmark (http://postmarkapp.com/) - Email service
Intercom (http://intercom.io/) - CRM
Postmark (http://postmarkapp.com/) - Email service
Intercom (http://intercom.io/) - CRM
Intercom (http://intercom.io) - CRM and user messaging
Chartbeat (http://chartbeat.com) - Realtime analytics
Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com) - Sending email from an app
Dropbox (http://dropbox.com) - File sharing/storage
CouchDB (http://couchdb.apache.org) - Flexible database
Chartbeat (http://chartbeat.com) - Realtime analytics
Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com) - Sending email from an app
Dropbox (http://dropbox.com) - File sharing/storage
CouchDB (http://couchdb.apache.org) - Flexible database
Intercom looks pretty cool - is it intuitive for business users to use?
Yeah we love it for two reasons:
1. Our users can send messages to us from inside the app. They end us using this to communicate with us more than email.
2. The dashboard for site owners is awesome. It shows you overall user count, who is logged in right now, each user's social networks (pulled automatically using http://www.fullcontact.com), and gives you a whole bunch of ways to filter the information.
1. Our users can send messages to us from inside the app. They end us using this to communicate with us more than email.
2. The dashboard for site owners is awesome. It shows you overall user count, who is logged in right now, each user's social networks (pulled automatically using http://www.fullcontact.com), and gives you a whole bunch of ways to filter the information.
New Relic (http://newrelic.com) - Application monitoring
MongoLab (http://mongolab.com) - MongoDB-as-a-Service
MongoLab (http://mongolab.com) - MongoDB-as-a-Service
BrowserStack (http://www.browserstack.com/) - Test Websites on different os and browser setups, in your browser.
Recurly (http://recurly.com) — Recurring billing managment
Intercom (http://www.intercom.io) — User management/intelligence
Postmark (http://www.postmarkapp.com) — Transactional email
Trello (http://www.trello.com) — Productivity tool
Intercom (http://www.intercom.io) — User management/intelligence
Postmark (http://www.postmarkapp.com) — Transactional email
Trello (http://www.trello.com) — Productivity tool
Trello (https://trello.com/) - task management
Statsd (https://npmjs.org/package/statsd) + Graphite (http://graphite.wikidot.com/) - monitoring & graphing
Kippt (http://kippt.com) - link and article saving/sharing
Zapier (https://zapier.com/) - like ifttt for business
Heroku's Hosted Postgres (http://postgres.heroku.com) - DB as a service
Also definitely agree with Intercom, Dropbox & New Relic, all great services.
Statsd (https://npmjs.org/package/statsd) + Graphite (http://graphite.wikidot.com/) - monitoring & graphing
Kippt (http://kippt.com) - link and article saving/sharing
Zapier (https://zapier.com/) - like ifttt for business
Heroku's Hosted Postgres (http://postgres.heroku.com) - DB as a service
Also definitely agree with Intercom, Dropbox & New Relic, all great services.
We use a lot of services at DNSimple. Here are some of them:
Chargify (http://chargify.com/) - recurring billing
Stripe (http://stripe.com/) - payment processing
Librato (https://metrics.librato.com/) - metrics
Mailgun (http://mailgun.com/) - email service
Boundary (http://boundary.com/) - network analysis
Papertrail (http://papertrailapp.com/) - consolidated logging
PagerDuty (http://pagerduty.com/) - alerting
TravisCI Pro (http://travisci.com/) - continuous integration
CodeClimate (http://codeclimate.com) - static code analysis
BugSnag (https://bugsnag.com) - exception tracking
Also, other services that have already been mentioned (like Github, Intercom, Trello, Dropbox, Sendgrid, NewRelic, etc)
Chargify (http://chargify.com/) - recurring billing
Stripe (http://stripe.com/) - payment processing
Librato (https://metrics.librato.com/) - metrics
Mailgun (http://mailgun.com/) - email service
Boundary (http://boundary.com/) - network analysis
Papertrail (http://papertrailapp.com/) - consolidated logging
PagerDuty (http://pagerduty.com/) - alerting
TravisCI Pro (http://travisci.com/) - continuous integration
CodeClimate (http://codeclimate.com) - static code analysis
BugSnag (https://bugsnag.com) - exception tracking
Also, other services that have already been mentioned (like Github, Intercom, Trello, Dropbox, Sendgrid, NewRelic, etc)
Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2010 edition by joshu 804 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1769910
We host some of our services and use third-party services for others. I am curious what new additions to the list are commonly used in the Saas world.