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Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a daily basis?

11 points by bwm 15y ago

More and more work nowadays is being done using SaaS. I'm curious to know which ones you rely on and what you use them for.

webbruce 15y ago
Mint
tonyarkles 15y ago
Basecamp, Bitbucket, Xero
dchuk 15y ago
hmmmmmmm 1) github 2) pivotal tracker 3) campfire 4) olark 5) cheddargetter (technically)
noveltysystems 15y ago
Chargify, SnapEngage, SalesForce, Campfire, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, DropBox, BufferApp
dangrossman 15y ago
* http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/ http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/ (IMAP/webmail) * http://www.snapengage.com http://www.snapengage.com (sales/support chats) * http://www.zendesk.com http://www.zendesk.com (basic KB & support tickets) * http://www.github.com http://www.github.com & http://www.springloops.com http://www.springloops.com (public & private repositories) * http://www.geckoboard.com http://www.geckoboard.com (dashboard of financial state of the company) And I'm a power user of my own SaaS products: * http://www.w3counter.com http://www.w3counter.com (realtime visitor analytics) * http://www.w3roi.com http://www.w3roi.com (ad performance tracking) * http://www.dialshield.com http://www.dialshield.com (automatically calls high fraud risk customers during the checkout process on my ecommerce sites)
nc 15y ago
At my last startup GitHub, Pivotal tracker, Basecamp, Campfire, Campaign monitor, Send grid, NewRelic, Litmus Good question, would love to see others chip in!
bkyan 15y ago
Services I use for consulting assignments: basecamp (file sharing), harvest (time tracking), go-to-meeting (screen sharing), skype (phone calls), gmail (e-mails), hellofax (faxing paperwork that involve my signature) Services I use on my own projects: url2png (thumbnail generation of web pages), pusher (real-time data push of server stats to a web page), google analytics (visitor stats) My own SAAS projects: mindcast (corkboard for mashing up 3rd-party saas windows and notes), shadowcatcher (screen capture and screenshot sharing utility)
- ntulip 15y ago
  what and where can I find "mindcast"?
  - bkyan 15y ago
    http://beta.mindcast.com http://beta.mindcast.com (The 1-minute intro video is a bit old and needs to be updated, but you should get the general idea...)
bks 15y ago
Only going to mention things that other have not mentioned. http://Elance.com http://Elance.com - Remote contractors. Hourly or job based http://oDesk.com http://oDesk.com - Virtual Admins http://Freshbooks.com http://Freshbooks.com - Automation of invoicing. My average days to pay are about 9. A bill I am very happy to pay each month. I use chronomate as the time tracking portion. http://adroll.com http://adroll.com - advertising retargetting http://join.me http://join.me - free screen sharing better than go-to-meeting http://highrisehq.com http://highrisehq.com - CRM
cucho 15y ago
Last startup: zendesk (customer support), github (private repo), campfire (team communication), google apps (email, docs), odesk (extra hands), highrise (potential-investor relations), clicky (real time web analytics), dropbox (file sharing), wordy (proof-reading), mygengo (translations), new relic (monitor rails apps), zerigo (dns), sendgrid (sending mails), hoptoad (app logging), transloadit (image uploading, processing), heroku (app hosting) Edit: learned HN formatting
- bkyan 15y ago
  How does HN formatting work?

11 points by bwm 15y ago

More and more work nowadays is being done using SaaS. I'm curious to know which ones you rely on and what you use them for.

webbruce 15y ago

Mint

tonyarkles 15y ago

Basecamp, Bitbucket, Xero

dchuk 15y ago

hmmmmmmm 1) github 2) pivotal tracker 3) campfire 4) olark 5) cheddargetter (technically)

noveltysystems 15y ago

Chargify, SnapEngage, SalesForce, Campfire, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, DropBox, BufferApp

dangrossman 15y ago

* http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/ http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/ (IMAP/webmail) * http://www.snapengage.com http://www.snapengage.com (sales/support chats) * http://www.zendesk.com http://www.zendesk.com (basic KB & support tickets) * http://www.github.com http://www.github.com & http://www.springloops.com http://www.springloops.com (public & private repositories) * http://www.geckoboard.com http://www.geckoboard.com (dashboard of financial state of the company) And I'm a power user of my own SaaS products: * http://www.w3counter.com http://www.w3counter.com (realtime visitor analytics) * http://www.w3roi.com http://www.w3roi.com (ad performance tracking) * http://www.dialshield.com http://www.dialshield.com (automatically calls high fraud risk customers during the checkout process on my ecommerce sites)

nc 15y ago

At my last startup GitHub, Pivotal tracker, Basecamp, Campfire, Campaign monitor, Send grid, NewRelic, Litmus Good question, would love to see others chip in!

bkyan 15y ago

Services I use for consulting assignments: basecamp (file sharing), harvest (time tracking), go-to-meeting (screen sharing), skype (phone calls), gmail (e-mails), hellofax (faxing paperwork that involve my signature) Services I use on my own projects: url2png (thumbnail generation of web pages), pusher (real-time data push of server stats to a web page), google analytics (visitor stats) My own SAAS projects: mindcast (corkboard for mashing up 3rd-party saas windows and notes), shadowcatcher (screen capture and screenshot sharing utility)

ntulip 15y ago
what and where can I find "mindcast"?
- bkyan 15y ago
  http://beta.mindcast.com http://beta.mindcast.com (The 1-minute intro video is a bit old and needs to be updated, but you should get the general idea...)

bks 15y ago

Only going to mention things that other have not mentioned. http://Elance.com http://Elance.com - Remote contractors. Hourly or job based http://oDesk.com http://oDesk.com - Virtual Admins http://Freshbooks.com http://Freshbooks.com - Automation of invoicing. My average days to pay are about 9. A bill I am very happy to pay each month. I use chronomate as the time tracking portion. http://adroll.com http://adroll.com - advertising retargetting http://join.me http://join.me - free screen sharing better than go-to-meeting http://highrisehq.com http://highrisehq.com - CRM

cucho 15y ago

Last startup: zendesk (customer support), github (private repo), campfire (team communication), google apps (email, docs), odesk (extra hands), highrise (potential-investor relations), clicky (real time web analytics), dropbox (file sharing), wordy (proof-reading), mygengo (translations), new relic (monitor rails apps), zerigo (dns), sendgrid (sending mails), hoptoad (app logging), transloadit (image uploading, processing), heroku (app hosting) Edit: learned HN formatting

bkyan 15y ago
How does HN formatting work?