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Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News
- redm 8y agoTime to remove https://www.blitz.io/ https://www.blitz.io/ from the list or add them to a dead-pool. Looks like they are shutting down October 1st, 2018. :( "It's time to say farewell... Blitz will be shutting down on October 1, 2018. We'll no longer be accepting new subscriptions. Subscriptions will not be renewed after June 30, 2017. Your account credits will still be accepted until October 1, 2018."
- dandare 8y agoI don't understand why is there not more competition / options in the BaaS area. User management is stable, almost boring functionality required by every single product.
- abraham_lincoln 8y agoAny thoughts, folks? Is this a good opportunity?
- shawn 8y agoSure, everything is an opportunity. Make it happen! On the other hand, the traditional wisdom is that a lack of competition isn't a good sign.
- abraham_lincoln 8y agoThat is what I was thinking, no competitors = red flag. Is it really that hard to roll your own and do you really want that being maintained by a 3rd party?
- toddh 8y agoIt's simply too hard to make money. You have very demanding users with infinite resource requirements and finite budgets. There's no margin in it. And there are existing solutions that are satisfactory.
- streblo 8y agoEspecially since GDPR
- pedalpete 8y agoWhen talking about user management, are you referring to StormPath which was bought by Okta? I think it is just that they are the only ones on the list. AuthO is a stand-alone service, but aws (Cognito) and Firebase are also in this space. I'm sure there are more I'm not familiar with.
- ArtWomb 8y agoExcellent list! But you should probably add AirTable ;)
- davisonio 8y agoThank you :) Airtable is a good one!
- tcmb 8y agoThe contributing guidelines page at https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-irc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-irc/blob/master/CONTRIB... gives a 404. Wanted to mention mattermost.com/.org as a Slack alternative in the Group Communication/Chat Tools section.
- jwilk 8y agoThe correct link is: https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade/blob/master/CONT... I submitted PR to fix this: https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade/pull/325 https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade/pull/325
- lettergram 8y agoRelated to this, using: https://hnprofile.com/ https://hnprofile.com/ You can identify who is an expert related to each tool or any topic in general
- weinzierl 8y agoThis is cool. After skimming a few profiles of folks I know and read mood detection is questionable but the "Topics of interest" is spot on.
- lettergram 8y agoFor reference, this started as a "different kind of search engine", utilizing conversation. Mood wasn't exactly the focus, so it's robustness is limited - i.e. lots of room for improvement. The mood detection (based on my manual tagging) is roughly 80% accurate, which IMO was "good enough". It's more accurate as you get to the edges (very positive or very negative), the middle is kinda fuzzy, but that's kind of the nature of language.
- dabber 8y agoHa, that's neet. I particularly like the "Probable Mood" addition.
- protomyth 8y agoI went from Happy to Unhappy while looking at it. I am so confused.
- shawn 8y agoThe mood detection may as well be RNG. I have an even better way to identify who is an expert on HN. Say "It's silly that X still isn't a thing." If X is a thing, you'll get ten people telling you why you're wrong within ten minutes. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941772 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17941772 You'll have to trade some karma for the answer though.
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- submeta 8y agoMissing joplin in the note taking tools section. - Great list though!
- davisonio 8y agoThank you
- magnetic 8y agoWhat a great (and overwhelming) list! In the code hosting section keybase seems to be missing. It has git support.
- Shinkirou 8y agoGreat list! Dropbox Paper is missing in the notes section.
- joshu 8y agoI keep forgetting about this and I am always surprised when I click through.
- seany 8y agoWhy are most of these services rather than open source projects that fill these roles?
- abraham_lincoln 8y agoWe used to build startups by piecing together other open-source offerings with our own programmatic secret sauce. Cash is plentiful and time is valuable, so it is now easier to patch together a bunch of SaaS tools.
- doitLP 8y agoI've got to mention https://www.logrocket.com https://www.logrocket.com, for error tracking, APM and user testing combined. Great price point, great support and absolutely changed the way we understand and capture errors. I'll create a PR to add it.
- avip 8y agoNot affiliated but gcp could use some more recognition... as quick example firebase is also "deployment" and "identity verification". It's only mentioned as "database" which really does not do it much justice.
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- kstenerud 8y agoBy chance, has anyone made a curated list of self-hosted things?
- odie88 8y agoI think this one covers self-hosted nicely: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
- ROFISH 8y agoNeeds to denote difference between price per month and price per user per month. Especially on items like support and HR. Apps that charge per user in “flat hierarchy” companies like mine where any employee can do anything is death to your service because I’m not paying for all my employees when we equally share the workloads depending on schedule.
- davisonio 8y agoThis is something I'd definitely be interested in adding to this list. Trouble is that services are changing their pricing very frequently.
- emmanueloga_ 8y agoHow come all these awesome lists use free form markdown? This is the sort of data that should have some sort of structure, if only just a schema less json file. That would make it easy to run a script from time to time to, for instance, remove 404 entries.
- southerndrift 8y agoBecause writing markup is more fun than writing JSON. If you want to automate something, you just need a regular expression to get whatever you want.
- petepete 8y agoBut but but what about XSLT?
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoI find that my problem isn't finding services that match a requirement I have, but picking which one to use. It's totally overwhelming how many services do pretty much exactly the same thing these days. I love that it's like this in the sense that there's healthy competition and they're all pushing each other forward, giving each other ideas to improve, etc... but as a pure consumer of these services, it's incredibly daunting to actually choose which to use.
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- nkantar 8y agoI very much feel like this as well (on both counts), especially about CI. I'd love to hear any strategies folksight have for coping with this and actually making decisions without looking into every single option, if that's a thing.
- frading 8y agoWhat I like to do sometimes is contact the support of the apps I'm hesitating on. Whichever is most responsive/helpful wins, as it's a good sign they actually care.
- artur_makly 8y agoyep that is a Massive data-point i use as well.
- nkantar 8y agoI hadn't thought of that, but it sounds like a useful thing to test out. Thanks!
- mLuby 8y agoOne tactic is to try one for 30m; if you can't get it working in that time, try another. Obviously biases toward good "getting started" tutorial and ease of adoption.
- lfx 8y agoGreat list! Thank you author! Side note - does anybody tried clockify.me ? Looks awesome, and it's free! Wondering how they earn money and how reliable they are.
- davisonio 8y agoThank you :)
- aristotle2 8y agoIt's legit. There is a paid plan (buried in extra features section), plus big companies pay lots of money for self-hosting and custom development
- yread 8y agoIt's also a nice resource of company one liners!
- systematical 8y agoI would add site24x7.com for server monitoring. We're monitoring all sites and services in our small startup for just $10 a month. Sends out all type of threshold alerts and supports scheduled maintenance. Many other features I haven't even scratched the surface of.
- davisonio 8y agoNice idea, feel free to send over a pull request
- panchicore3 8y agoAnyone knows about a team shifting saas around there? A tool that could help me to design and automatize a shift schedule for security guards for instance. Basically I am looking at the following assumptions: - 24/7 coverage - 8 hours shift - 40 annual leaves days per year - 14 days of certified sick and uncertified sick leaves per year. - need for 52 periods of 2 consecutive days off (week ends). - team composed of 3 personnel. - 15 working days of training in the year. - teams of 3 personnel for each shift. So I could easily answer how many teams of 3 personnel do I need and what type of shift schedule works for that? Would you have any idea about that? Thanks.
- akg_67 8y agoIf you have a business school locally, ask a MBA student/professor. It is a standard resource allocation problem in decision support model, supply/resource allocation and management courses in MBA program. If you do little bit digging online for textbooks in this area and available supplemental materials, you should be able to find a pre-designed spreadsheet to solve your problem.
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- davidivadavid 8y agoThis might help: https://www.tracktik.com/ https://www.tracktik.com/
- dd36 8y agoWhat does everyone use to pull credit reports? Is there a good, affordable vendor with an API?
- timonovici 8y agoDoesn't anybody do shit on their laptop anymore or on their own server? Why does it have to be 10 thousand services, why the dependency on the network and other entities? How many of these will go bankrupt by the end of the year, how many will change their terms in an incompatible way with your company project or your personal one?
- theshrike79 8y agoWhen you have your own server, you're also the server admin. When that server craps out, so do ALL of the services on it and it's you who will spend nights and weekends fixing it. Or you can pay a few bucks here and few bucks there and the uptime is Somebody Else's Problem.
- sh87 8y agoAnd you now have to trust this random 'someone else' to have done a better job than you can. My intuition says there's more FUD around uptime and availability than it deserves. If anything, the hard work of maintaining uptime and security is a great learning path that should not be missed by beginners and small teams alike.
- norswap 8y agoGreat to go fast, but know you're building on shaky grounds that will shift underneath you.