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Show HN: My table of tools for startups [Google Docs]

139 points by matthiaswh 15y ago

matthiaswh 15y ago
I started this a long time ago but it quickly grew too tedious and unwieldy for me to complete. I'd like to open it for editing so anyone can include their own tool or fill in details, but I'm afraid it might become overwhelmed by bad info or completely messed up. So if you would like to contribute or add your own info, please shoot me an email and I'll add you to the edit list. djclljx [at] gmail Hopefully it proves useful to someone!
- yatsyk 15y ago
  Impressive list. I agree that spreadsheet with open editing will be spammed very quickly (especially this type of spreadsheet with different tools). I've hoped to solve this issue in http://hnresources.com/ http://hnresources.com/ with github. If someone want to share resource he creates a pull request but this approach seems too nerdy even for hn audience :)
  - MartinCron 15y ago
    The whole "pull request" model seems like a really brilliant way to distribute content generation like this. I would hope to see it work.
    - matthiaswh 15y ago
      I agree. At the very least I would like to see GDocs enable the ability to approve modifications prior to them being published. (Maybe they do - but I couldn't find it anywhere.)
  - redrussak 15y ago
    Not to sounds too spammy, but it's something I've been working on fixing. Giving people a chance to list on their own profile: http://Toolz.me http://Toolz.me
alexhaefner 15y ago
Any thoughts on finances? For a startup full of software focused engineers, I'd like to get taxes sorted out and managed. Any thoughts/insight on this?
- patrickaljord 15y ago
  indinero does that, they're even on the HN front page today https://indinero.com/ https://indinero.com/
  - alexhaefner 15y ago
    It looks to me more like indinero does accounting. I'm looking for some service to do my taxes. AM I right in thinking this?
    - orenmazor 15y ago
      I'd love this as well. I dont think it exists, unfortunately. if you represented the possibilities of business tax as a flowchart, it'd be way too big (especially for me, as I'm Canadian dealing with Americans) to be easily handled. I think. I hope I'm wrong.
alexholehouse 15y ago
Very similar to http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage (not indicating any plagiarism or anything of the sort, just happened to come across this yesterday!)
- matthiaswh 15y ago
  That post yesterday was what prompted me to go ahead and share this. My goal was to provide a little more at a glance info than most lists like that tend to do.
  - alexholehouse 15y ago
    ah sorry! I thought I'd seen this somewhere else, hadn't realized it was through HN - doh! And yeah, yours is far more helpful in an at-a-glance sense.
kirillzubovsky 15y ago
One crazy friend of mine developed a website to do exactly that, check it out http://toolz.me/kirillzubovsky http://toolz.me/kirillzubovsky. They are in public beta, I believe.
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doc_larry 15y ago
Wow, great list thanks! For CRM you can also add Nimble, they integrate with google app, linkedin and facebook. If you use google apps its really good.
aam1r 15y ago
Thanks, this list looks awesome! I've been looking for a finance/expense tracking app for a while but haven't found something that fits my requirements. I hope this list helps
metachris 15y ago
Thought I'd share another startup tools list, primarily focused on dev/web/mobile: http://www.tapdom.com/resources/startup-tools http://www.tapdom.com/resources/startup-tools
cmer 15y ago
I found 2 mistakes in Basecamp. There is a free plan and the cheapest one is $24/mo.
- matthiaswh 15y ago
  Thanks. Fixed. I missed the small print under their main pricing options when I created this.
dpapathanasiou 15y ago
Here's a suggestion for the publishing category: eBookBurn (https://ebookburn.com/ https://ebookburn.com/) which is run by my startup.
- matthiaswh 15y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion. I've added this under Publishing. If you'd like, email me or send an edit request. That way you can update the listing if your prices change, etc.
cannuk 15y ago
That is a hell of a list. I found some categories of items on there that I did not even know I needed!
- matthiaswh 15y ago
  That's the problem I ran into when creating it. I started with a small set of tools that I use personally, but as I continued researching the list grew exponentially.
rickyc091 15y ago
Hmmm, no HipChat (http://hipchat.com http://hipchat.com)? Great list, thanks for compiling it.
- grimen 15y ago
  Killer-tool! We have built some integrations to it to make our communication asynchronous (humans vs. humans, devs vs. servers, etc.), and got plans for even more. I know people been doing this for looong for IRC, but I find HipChat more usable for non-hackers (the biz folks "get it") and it's more tweakable (visually via HTML-formatting). Lovely.
- matthiaswh 15y ago
  Added it. For every tool I have on the list there are probably equally 3 good tools I don't have listed yet.
mrtimo 15y ago
I think it would be useful to add a column to specify if the hosted services provides an API and if it is REST-ful.
alorres 15y ago
What about Asana for time management?
redrussak 15y ago
Incredible list. Here's a user-friendly crowd sourced version: http://toolz.me/ http://toolz.me/
mrjasonroy 15y ago
Love it. We're using shopify under ecommerce and I've looked at quite a few others. Shopify - minimum $29 Amazon Web Stores - $24.99 BigCommerce - $24.95 I could add more data in a sheet and share it if you want.
pedoh 15y ago
This is a great list. Thanks for creating it. There's no mention of PagerDuty in the Alerts / Monitoring section. There's also nothing in the way of DevOps tools a la Puppet / Chef, and metrics tools such as Graphite.
matthiaswh 15y ago
I have created a form to allow people to submit new tools. (Should have thought of this much sooner!) https://docs.google.com/a/2helixtech.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dExDMXAtUmhrNnQwUXRjZHh1QVhzRHc6MQ https://docs.google.com/a/2helixtech.com/spreadsheet/viewfor... I'm not sure how well GDocs forms work with multiple submissions though. If you would like to help maintain this, I'll still grant access - just email me.
mkelley 15y ago
You can look forward soon to a project code named, Tempus for the time being. It will be a fully featured Time Management & Invoicing software(web app) written by and for Freelancers & Dev Shops alike, with tie-in options for accepting online CC payments and Basecamp - ALL at an affordable price. Even a client-count limited FREE version. I've been contemplating a blog of the design, and development process and posting to HN, but didn't know if that might be too boring even for all us nerds. My competion would be companies like Cashboard and FreshBooks. Let me know what you think!
thejf 15y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Teamlab: http://www.teamlab.com/ http://www.teamlab.com/
fallenlad 15y ago
Thanks, Awesome list. This for sure would help me save hell lot of time.
pmorel 15y ago
I usually find spreadsheets harder to compare when it gets bigger (similar to the comparison table on wikipedia). I have added the first few sub-lists on Romku: http://www.romku.com/list/343885/communication-phone-mail-startups http://www.romku.com/list/343885/communication-phone-mail-st... http://www.romku.com/list/343886/bug-tracking-issue-management-startups http://www.romku.com/list/343886/bug-tracking-issue-manageme... http://www.romku.com/list/343887/collaboration-filesharing-startups http://www.romku.com/list/343887/collaboration-filesharing-s... http://www.romku.com/list/343889/customer-relations-software-startups http://www.romku.com/list/343889/customer-relations-software... Please let me know if you find it easier to navigate and I'll create the other ones (you can see the lists of lists here: http://www.romku.com/lists http://www.romku.com/lists)
- joedogboi 15y ago
  Wasn't even aware Romku existed. What a cool service. I personally think, though, that the spreadsheet is more useful, just because I can compare features without having to click on multiple choices and looking at each individual list of features. However, the spreadsheet can indeed become unwieldy. Might be more useful as separate spreadsheets for each category if it gets too large.
  - pmorel 15y ago
    Actually, you can also compare the features of multiple profiles: click on the icon below each star ratings on a given list and then click on "Compare" on the little box that appears at the bottom left of the screen. For instance, for the issue tracker software: http://www.romku.com/compare/144524/189564/152689/152158/144834/144696/146492/145258 http://www.romku.com/compare/144524/189564/152689/152158/144... (Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Romku)
    - joedogboi 15y ago
      Ah, okay. That is very useful. Thanks!
sborsje 15y ago
Maybe you'd also like to include a PR tools / press release platforms section? A few press release platform suggestions: PRWeb, PR NewsWire, PitchEngine, PressDoc (disclaimer; I'm one of the founders) Media relations: Blogdash, Meltwater Press, MyMediaInfo

139 points by matthiaswh 15y ago

I started this a long time ago but it quickly grew too tedious and unwieldy for me to complete. I'd like to open it for editing so anyone can include their own tool or fill in details, but I'm afraid it might become overwhelmed by bad info or completely messed up. So if you would like to contribute or add your own info, please shoot me an email and I'll add you to the edit list. djclljx [at] gmail Hopefully it proves useful to someone!

yatsyk 15y ago
Impressive list. I agree that spreadsheet with open editing will be spammed very quickly (especially this type of spreadsheet with different tools). I've hoped to solve this issue in http://hnresources.com/ http://hnresources.com/ with github. If someone want to share resource he creates a pull request but this approach seems too nerdy even for hn audience :)
- MartinCron 15y ago
  The whole "pull request" model seems like a really brilliant way to distribute content generation like this. I would hope to see it work.
  - matthiaswh 15y ago
    I agree. At the very least I would like to see GDocs enable the ability to approve modifications prior to them being published. (Maybe they do - but I couldn't find it anywhere.)
- redrussak 15y ago
  Not to sounds too spammy, but it's something I've been working on fixing. Giving people a chance to list on their own profile: http://Toolz.me http://Toolz.me

alexhaefner 15y ago

Any thoughts on finances? For a startup full of software focused engineers, I'd like to get taxes sorted out and managed. Any thoughts/insight on this?

patrickaljord 15y ago
indinero does that, they're even on the HN front page today https://indinero.com/ https://indinero.com/
- alexhaefner 15y ago
  It looks to me more like indinero does accounting. I'm looking for some service to do my taxes. AM I right in thinking this?
  - orenmazor 15y ago
    I'd love this as well. I dont think it exists, unfortunately. if you represented the possibilities of business tax as a flowchart, it'd be way too big (especially for me, as I'm Canadian dealing with Americans) to be easily handled. I think. I hope I'm wrong.

alexholehouse 15y ago

Very similar to http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage (not indicating any plagiarism or anything of the sort, just happened to come across this yesterday!)

matthiaswh 15y ago
That post yesterday was what prompted me to go ahead and share this. My goal was to provide a little more at a glance info than most lists like that tend to do.
- alexholehouse 15y ago
  ah sorry! I thought I'd seen this somewhere else, hadn't realized it was through HN - doh! And yeah, yours is far more helpful in an at-a-glance sense.

kirillzubovsky 15y ago

One crazy friend of mine developed a website to do exactly that, check it out http://toolz.me/kirillzubovsky http://toolz.me/kirillzubovsky. They are in public beta, I believe.

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doc_larry 15y ago

Wow, great list thanks! For CRM you can also add Nimble, they integrate with google app, linkedin and facebook. If you use google apps its really good.

aam1r 15y ago

Thanks, this list looks awesome! I've been looking for a finance/expense tracking app for a while but haven't found something that fits my requirements. I hope this list helps

metachris 15y ago

Thought I'd share another startup tools list, primarily focused on dev/web/mobile: http://www.tapdom.com/resources/startup-tools http://www.tapdom.com/resources/startup-tools

cmer 15y ago

I found 2 mistakes in Basecamp. There is a free plan and the cheapest one is $24/mo.

matthiaswh 15y ago
Thanks. Fixed. I missed the small print under their main pricing options when I created this.

dpapathanasiou 15y ago

Here's a suggestion for the publishing category: eBookBurn (https://ebookburn.com/ https://ebookburn.com/) which is run by my startup.

matthiaswh 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I've added this under Publishing. If you'd like, email me or send an edit request. That way you can update the listing if your prices change, etc.

cannuk 15y ago

That is a hell of a list. I found some categories of items on there that I did not even know I needed!

matthiaswh 15y ago
That's the problem I ran into when creating it. I started with a small set of tools that I use personally, but as I continued researching the list grew exponentially.

rickyc091 15y ago

Hmmm, no HipChat (http://hipchat.com http://hipchat.com)? Great list, thanks for compiling it.

grimen 15y ago
Killer-tool! We have built some integrations to it to make our communication asynchronous (humans vs. humans, devs vs. servers, etc.), and got plans for even more. I know people been doing this for looong for IRC, but I find HipChat more usable for non-hackers (the biz folks "get it") and it's more tweakable (visually via HTML-formatting). Lovely.
matthiaswh 15y ago
Added it. For every tool I have on the list there are probably equally 3 good tools I don't have listed yet.

mrtimo 15y ago

I think it would be useful to add a column to specify if the hosted services provides an API and if it is REST-ful.

alorres 15y ago

What about Asana for time management?

redrussak 15y ago

Incredible list. Here's a user-friendly crowd sourced version: http://toolz.me/ http://toolz.me/

mrjasonroy 15y ago

Love it. We're using shopify under ecommerce and I've looked at quite a few others. Shopify - minimum $29 Amazon Web Stores - $24.99 BigCommerce - $24.95 I could add more data in a sheet and share it if you want.

pedoh 15y ago

This is a great list. Thanks for creating it. There's no mention of PagerDuty in the Alerts / Monitoring section. There's also nothing in the way of DevOps tools a la Puppet / Chef, and metrics tools such as Graphite.

matthiaswh 15y ago

I have created a form to allow people to submit new tools. (Should have thought of this much sooner!) https://docs.google.com/a/2helixtech.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dExDMXAtUmhrNnQwUXRjZHh1QVhzRHc6MQ https://docs.google.com/a/2helixtech.com/spreadsheet/viewfor... I'm not sure how well GDocs forms work with multiple submissions though. If you would like to help maintain this, I'll still grant access - just email me.

mkelley 15y ago

You can look forward soon to a project code named, Tempus for the time being. It will be a fully featured Time Management & Invoicing software(web app) written by and for Freelancers & Dev Shops alike, with tie-in options for accepting online CC payments and Basecamp - ALL at an affordable price. Even a client-count limited FREE version. I've been contemplating a blog of the design, and development process and posting to HN, but didn't know if that might be too boring even for all us nerds. My competion would be companies like Cashboard and FreshBooks. Let me know what you think!

thejf 15y ago

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Teamlab: http://www.teamlab.com/ http://www.teamlab.com/

fallenlad 15y ago

Thanks, Awesome list. This for sure would help me save hell lot of time.

pmorel 15y ago

I usually find spreadsheets harder to compare when it gets bigger (similar to the comparison table on wikipedia). I have added the first few sub-lists on Romku: http://www.romku.com/list/343885/communication-phone-mail-startups http://www.romku.com/list/343885/communication-phone-mail-st... http://www.romku.com/list/343886/bug-tracking-issue-management-startups http://www.romku.com/list/343886/bug-tracking-issue-manageme... http://www.romku.com/list/343887/collaboration-filesharing-startups http://www.romku.com/list/343887/collaboration-filesharing-s... http://www.romku.com/list/343889/customer-relations-software-startups http://www.romku.com/list/343889/customer-relations-software... Please let me know if you find it easier to navigate and I'll create the other ones (you can see the lists of lists here: http://www.romku.com/lists http://www.romku.com/lists)

joedogboi 15y ago
Wasn't even aware Romku existed. What a cool service. I personally think, though, that the spreadsheet is more useful, just because I can compare features without having to click on multiple choices and looking at each individual list of features. However, the spreadsheet can indeed become unwieldy. Might be more useful as separate spreadsheets for each category if it gets too large.
- pmorel 15y ago
  Actually, you can also compare the features of multiple profiles: click on the icon below each star ratings on a given list and then click on "Compare" on the little box that appears at the bottom left of the screen. For instance, for the issue tracker software: http://www.romku.com/compare/144524/189564/152689/152158/144834/144696/146492/145258 http://www.romku.com/compare/144524/189564/152689/152158/144... (Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Romku)
  - joedogboi 15y ago
    Ah, okay. That is very useful. Thanks!

sborsje 15y ago

Maybe you'd also like to include a PR tools / press release platforms section? A few press release platform suggestions: PRWeb, PR NewsWire, PitchEngine, PressDoc (disclaimer; I'm one of the founders) Media relations: Blogdash, Meltwater Press, MyMediaInfo