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Ask HN: What paid services do you use now for your startup?
I was looking around for server setups, and I ran into an old HN post about what paid services people use.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545229
Now that it's more than a year later, has consensus changed? Or is it mostly still the same? What paid services do you use?
- f1gm3nt 16y agoI'm looking into twilo (I always forget the name and have to google it). I use phonebooth and google apps. For hosting I'm using host gator til my sites or apps need a dedicated server. When that time comes I have a business partner to front hardware and hosting. For office space when it comes to that time I have made a few connections that I will barter services for.
- tbrooks 16y ago1. Voip.ms for phones, IVR, voicemail 2. Dreamhost for small sites, pgrmr for large sites 3. SendGrid for email delivery 4. Bittorrent for everything else
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- asanwal 16y agoA few we use for a variety of things are. Mailchimp Google Apps SurveyMonkey
- jeffepp 16y agoDropbox. Currently in trial and considering: Performable, SnapABug, SendGrid
- jrach19 16y agoHi this is Justin from Performable. We want to provide the best service possible for startups. Please let us know how we can help in any way.
- ccollins 16y agoAt Airbnb we're using Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, Cloudfront), Dropbox, Cloudkick, Pingdom, Twilio, Clickatell, ZenDesk, RingCentral, BrainTree, MaxMind, MailChimp ... and more I can't think of right now :)
- joshkaufman 16y agoThis is for my business education course / consulting business: Slicehost (website hosting) Aweber (autoresponder/broadcast e-mail) Amazon S3/Cloudfront (media server) Google Apps (e-mail) Skype (international calling) Dropbox (backup) Chartbeat (analytics) Powerpay (merchant account) Backpack (reference / reminders) Evernote (database) I'm seriously considering Ruby Receptionists (callruby.com) for in-bound call handling - I'm on the phone a lot, and it'd be much better than letting incoming calls go to voicemail. (I use Google Voice currently.)
- babyboy808 16y agoCurdbee.com dropbox Skype
- marknutter 16y agoEvernote, dropbox, slichost, google apps, basecamp, lessacounting
- jmathai 16y agoLinode (VPS) MSNI (merchant) Twilio Pingdom AWS MailChimp Comcast (build server resides in garage)
- jonah 16y agoIntervals for project management, Backpack for quick notes, MailChimp for email, AT&T :( for telephone, Verizon for DSL, and SBWH for VPS.
- mindcrime 16y agoHosting: Slicehost, Amazon AWS (EC2), Time Warner Cable (a couple of servers sitting in the spare room in my apartment) And, er, um, that's about it right now. We're really not far along enough to need much more.
- pwim 16y agoHarvest for time and expense tracking.
- troymc 16y agoGoogle App Engine, Amazon S3, Google Apps Premium, Second Life Premium, Skype, Carbonite, Squarespace
- vgurgov 16y agoAmazon, Rackspace cloud, encoding.com, google apps..
- MadQA 16y agogoogle apps dnspark maxcdn evernote
- c1sc0 16y agoGoogle Apps, Basecamp, Dropbox, Google AppEngine, Nearlyfreespeech for cheap hosting
- mleonhard 16y agoFor RestBackup.com, I'm using: - Amazon EC2, EBS, ELB, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS - Sendgrid.com for mail delivery - Pingdom.com for monitoring and alarm notification - Google Apps Premium for email hosting - Linode.com for DNS hosting - Namecheap.com for DNS registration and SSL certs (putting off buying from Verisign) - JungleDisk.com for backups - T-Mobile prepaid mobile phone
- AmberShah 16y agoRackspace Cloud for Windows (app hosting) ASmallOrange (wordpress hosting) Fotolia MailChimp MailboxForwarding GoDaddy (domains only) DropBox Google Apps Google Voice
- lleger 16y agoDropbox Github