7 ms·
Cheap or free web-based tools for your web startup
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoThe madmimi website gave me a headache. Is there any site which allows me to display a text box on my site and collects the emails given and allows me to send newsletters?
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- oneplusone 17y agoUse CampaignMonitor. By far the best tool for the job. http://www.campaignmonitor.com http://www.campaignmonitor.com
- redorb 17y agoI agree campaignMonitor has some great analytics / at the link below you can view a good screen shot of the analytics page.. http://imgur.com/uq9zn http://imgur.com/uq9zn
- pchristensen 17y agoMailchimp is awesome. Don't know how it compares to Campaign Monitor. If you're a belt & suspenders type, use a Wufoo form and send that to MailChimp, then you can easily switch later.
- grinich 17y agoThe email collection tools in Campaign Monitor are totally free. You just pay when you send mail. When I was organizing Startup Bootcamp, I emailed both CM and MailChimp to ask for a donation. MailChip offered us a discount, but CM gave us an extremely generous number of credits that easily covered our needs. Using CM is a breeze. Originally we were using a Google Doc as a signup, and felt the need to switch once we hit a few hundred people. Importing the data was effortless, and CM has built-in checks for both duplicate and malformed emails. Their analytics and reporting is also great. Highly recommended.
- pchristensen 17y agoThanks! It's really quite hard to get a comparison of tools that take some usage to understand.
- Garyjoe32 16y agoMad Mimi does this. Click on Tools, and choose the webform.
- 3pt14159 17y agodomai.nr is by far the best domain finding service and is also totally free. I've bought 8 or so domains with it.
- enjoyaol 17y agoreally appreciated the list of tools. Anybody with a similar list but with other tasks ?
- yurylifshits 17y agoHere is a longer list specifically for web publishers: http://publisherapps.org http://publisherapps.org
- giangbiscan 17y agoGreat list. Thanks for sharing.
- sumeetjain 17y agoMy favorite tool for finding available domains while discovering product/company name ideas is http://wordoid.com http://wordoid.com - made by a HNer, I think.
- Jasber 17y agoWordoid is great. Another favorite of mine is: http://www.nxdom.com/ http://www.nxdom.com/ Shameless plug: I threw up http://domaingroovy.com/ http://domaingroovy.com/ to keep track of sites like these. Maybe someone else will find it useful.
- bhseo 17y agoNice, some new ones to add to my list: http://internetmindmap.com/available_domains http://internetmindmap.com/available_domains
- phsr 17y agoHow is Google App Engine? Are there any pain points one should be aware of before using it?
- bockris 17y agoYou mean besides lock-in?
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- jazzdev 17y agoThere's no lock-in on the Java side. Change a few lines in jdconfig.xml, add the datanucleus-rdbms jar file, add a JDBC driver jar file and you're app will run on Tomcat or Jetty with MySQL or any database with a JDBC driver.
- jeff18 17y agoCheck out the AppScale project: http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ http://code.google.com/p/appscale/ You can run your App Engine apps pretty much anywhere.
- eop 17y agoNo RDBMS. No SQL. No joins. That's the main adjustment for me. But after you adjust to that, it's great.
- sadiq 17y agoI thought NoSQL was a selling point these days?
- eop 17y agoPerhaps, but the question I was responding to was about "pain points". All I was saying is if you're coming from an RDBMS background, as I am, then there are growing pains in adjusting to using BigTable. If you don't have the time or patience to make the adjustment, then this will be a pain point. Otherwise, perhaps it's a selling point.
- CytokineStorm 17y agoWait, no Heroku? It should definitely be listed in the Price-Scalable Hosting section. Like AppEngine it's also free starting out, and super easy to scale. Plus it's all rails, so you don't even have to learn any App Engine API.
- cmelbye 17y agoI think it's a lot more expensive than App Engine though. You quickly get into hundreds of dollars a month range for just a few extra features and two running processes.
- hopeless 17y agoThat's a humorous exaggeration, right? 2 x processes + 20GB database = $51/mth Most people won't require every addon, and there's a free or cheap option in every case. Yes, you can spend "hundreds of dollars a month" but not easily
- cmelbye 17y ago2 x processes + 20GB database + unlimited bundles + SSL ($20-100/month depending on your needs) == $91-$171/month. And that's for just two thin processes with a few extra features that are generally required for most apps. It jumps to more than $200 if you want just one more Thin process or a background worker, etc. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with Heroku's pricing, but I wouldn't considering it a "cheap or free web-based tool".
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- mhartl 17y agoI'm not sure I trust Google App Engine; it's a roundoff error for Google. Why should they care if something goes wrong? Heroku cares about Ruby webapp deployment the way Google cares about search.
- yurylifshits 17y agoHere is a longer list specifically for web publishers: http://publisherapps.org http://publisherapps.org
- fender0011 17y agoGreat article.
- sharpn 17y agoI found this helps when collaborating remotely, to send big files around - and there are other companies offering a similar service: http://free.mailbigfile.com/index.php http://free.mailbigfile.com/index.php
- torial 17y agoDidn't see this category, but for the developers of a startup, an easy to use / free bug tracking system can be found in BugNotes: http://www.bugnotes.com/home.php http://www.bugnotes.com/home.php
- imagetic 17y agohttp://lighthouseapp.com http://lighthouseapp.com and http://tenderapp.com http://tenderapp.com for bug tracking and support tools that integrate.
- Groxx 17y agoFor browser compatibility: browsershots.org Litmusapp may be nicer and have summaries, but it's hard to beat browsershot's simplicity, breadth, and free-ness. Though I have yet to see any provide decent testing for anything dynamic (videos, perhaps?).
- Pistos2 17y agobrowsershots.org is good, but some generator nodes can be extremely slow (30 minute wait times). For IE-only screenshots, I like to use http://meineipadresse.de/netrenderer/index.php http://meineipadresse.de/netrenderer/index.php , which provides IE screenshots in about 7 seconds.
- kylemathews 17y agobrowserlab.adobe.com/ is very fast and free as well.
- tonetheman 17y agohttp://crossbrowsertesting.com http://crossbrowsertesting.com is also a good choice (I am biased), we have live testing (VNC) and screenshots. we are working on video.
- armandososa 17y agoI didn't know http://www.ask500people.com/ http://www.ask500people.com/. Looks like an useful resource. I don't care about the map though.
- Pistos2 17y ago+1 for Pivotal Tracker. One of the most polished UIs I've worked with. It's a pleasure for development teams to use; I use it for both freelancing and the day job. Also helps management have its finger on the pulse of progress, and have an accurate answer to the question "when will X be done?"
- ledger123 17y agoI am working on simplified hosted accounting service for startups based upon open source sql-ledger. There will be a free single user version. Keep yourself updated via blog or mailing list (see my info)
- calaniz 17y agoWoopra is a great realtime analytics service. I'm building our iPhone client...
- mhartl 17y agoThe recommended site vyew.com looks good, but http://vyew.com/ 301s to http://vyew.com/site which in turn 301s to http://vyew.com/site/index3 Two 301 redirects, and a damn ugly default URL to boot—I have a hard time trusting them to get anything else right. Am I wrong?