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Ask HN: Webapps you can't live without?
We all use Web apps/services(Gmail, BaseCamp, etc). What are some of these tools which are essential to you?
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- marketmonkey 15y agoGmail, Mailchimp, Basecamp, Highrise, LivelyStocks, Twitter, Github, TradingView, Various Google Tools including (Analytics, Adwords, Adsense, Reader) http://www.gmail.com http://www.gmail.com http://www.mailchimp.com http://www.mailchimp.com http://www.highrisehq.com http://www.highrisehq.com http://www.livelystocks.com http://www.livelystocks.com http://www.twitter.com http://www.twitter.com http://www.github.com http://www.github.com https://www.tradingview.com/ https://www.tradingview.com/
- skizm 15y agoLivelystocks needs a smart search for stock symbols. Just messing around I had to lok up a lot of symbols on google. I guess you could argue that if you have invested in a stock (emotionally and financially) enough to want to see real time info that you should know the symbol but hey I want to check out the app w/o having to google a lot of stuff :D
- marketmonkey 15y agoYou're right. It's coming next week!
- fatbat 15y agoWow, thanks for sharing LivelyStocks! Having one of those moments when you see your abandoned project made! Cheers!
- tiernano 15y agohttp://www.Office365.com http://www.Office365.com http://www.EverNote.com http://www.EverNote.com http://www.Twitter.com http://www.Twitter.com http://www.Dropbox.com http://www.Dropbox.com http://google.com/reader http://google.com/reader https://www.droprss.com/ https://www.droprss.com/ <- my site, still in private beta... but still handy...
- ameen 15y agoInteresting, How useful/reliable is Office365? I've gone the Google Docs route, it works but wish it was better.
- tiernano 15y agoi pay a fiver a month (euros) with my mobile phone provider, gives me exchange email on all my devices, sharepoint for office and one note, one note online, and lync... its very useful and very reliable.
- freehunter 15y agoI use Office365 extensively at home and on the go. OneNote in particular is a must-have for me, and it needs to be synced everywhere. Really wish it wasn't blocked at work. I have a Windows Phone so I can access everything over 3G, but working on a phone is nowhere near as comfortable as working on a laptop or even a tablet.
- hacker_jumper 15y agohttp://www.livelystocks.com http://www.livelystocks.com looks cool - thanks marketmonkey, http://www.corsvi.com http://www.corsvi.com for tech news, http://www.youtube.com http://www.youtube.com - video production showcase, http://www.vimeo.com http://www.vimeo.com - ibid and HN
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- adelevie 15y agoGithub + Issues
- designium 15y agoGmail.com, linenode.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, google.com
- adelevie 15y agook?
- designium 15y agoGmail.com, linenode.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, google.com
- designium 15y agoGmail.com, linenode.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, google.com
- designium 15y agoGmail.com, linenode.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, google.com
- designium 15y agoGmail.com, linenode.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, google.com
- thekungfuman 15y agohttp://google.com/reader http://google.com/reader http://google.com/mail http://google.com/mail and http://google.com/calendar http://google.com/calendar http://google.com/voice http://google.com/voice http://github.com http://github.com http://dropbox.com http://dropbox.com http://readitlater.com http://readitlater.com http://springpad.com http://springpad.com
- dangrossman 15y agoSomeone asked this 3 days ago (with few responses), so I'm copy/pasting this from then: * http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/ http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/ (IMAP/webmail) * http://www.sendgrid.com http://www.sendgrid.com (transactional email) * 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.repositoryhosting.com http://www.repositoryhosting.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)
- ameen 15y agoWow, that's a lot of useful apps. Quite a few of them look interesting, Dialshield in particular can be a lifesaver!
- brador 15y agoGot a link to the one from 3 days ago?
- ohgodthecat 15y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3518985 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3518985
- edanm 15y agoDropbox, Facebook, Remember the milk, Google Apps (mail, calendar), Hacker News On and off, Google Reader.
- jeffcapeshop 15y agohttps://trello.com https://trello.com
- herrherr 15y agoThe really interesting part is actually to recognise how hard it is for a new app to enter my daily-use list. It's almost impossible. Some make it in there for a few days or weeks but will vanish quite soon. Either I need the app for my daily work or it is a fire-and-forget service that I once signed up for and that doesn't require any active input from my site. Anyway, here is my list: - pivotaltracker.com - github.com - dropbox.com - olark.com - gmail.com - google.com/analytics - hipchat.com
- dochtman 15y agoGMail, GCalendar, Twitter, internal work app, work Trac, HN.
- slig 15y agohttp://chartbeat.com/ http://chartbeat.com/ http://www.joesgoals.com/ http://www.joesgoals.com/ GMail, Analytics, etc.
- Symmetry 15y agoSince the others I use have already been mentioned: http://piperka.net/ http://piperka.net/ It's a webcomic aggregator, gives me a list of all the new comics that I haven't read yet. Also Hiveminder http://hiveminder.com/splash/ http://hiveminder.com/splash/ for a really awesome to-do list site, with nice collaboration tools.
- csomar 15y agoin order - gmail (moving to own hosted email with Thunder in a couple of week, though) - Skype (all communications) - trello (manages all my projects now) - bitbucket (all private code, it's free) - dropbox (all files) - prgmr (hosting, and email) other essentials but can switch easily - Google Analytics - Google Translate - SpringPad (they have a good Android app) - Google Reader It's amazing that I don't depend on any mobile app or on my smartphone and can go without it.
- hessenwolf 15y agoWhich Google Analytics app?
- losvedir 15y agohttp://www.google.com/analytics/ http://www.google.com/analytics/ probably. Does Google offer others? I'd love to try them.
- hessenwolf 15y agoNo, I mean which one on the phone.
- amerine 15y agoWhat is Thunder?
- laxk 15y agoIMHO Mozilla Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
- amwelles 15y agohttp://getharvest.com http://getharvest.com is the only one I use that hasn't already been mentioned already. It pretty much saved my life when I started doing contract work this year.
- hobin 15y agoGoogle Search, Wikipedia, Dropbox, HN, Dilbert, Facebook.
- sktrdie 15y agoyouporn
- potomak 15y ago* Gmail (http://gmail.com http://gmail.com) * GitHub (http://github.com http://github.com) * Tomatoes, pomodoro technique productivity tool (http://tomatoes.heroku.com http://tomatoes.heroku.com) * Reddit, procrastination (http://reddit.com http://reddit.com)
- j45 15y ago- http://www.diigo.com http://www.diigo.com - I was never able to use any online bookmarking service for the last 10-15 years. Diigo got online bookmarking right. I would frantically pay someone to re-build diigo for me if it ever went away. I can't process, organize or navigate the internet without it. The best feature is it's highlighting. We don't save bookmarks in our minds, but specific sentences or paragraphs. Diigo lets us highlight those and saves them right into my Diigo account/stream. I can then simply search diigo not only by keyword or bookmark, but the phrases that stuck out to me in the first place to make me want to bookmark it. The second best feature is being able to publish the links to multiple groups so effortlessly. - http://www.fogbugz.com http://www.fogbugz.com (hosted) - keeps my consulting and product dev flow going. - http://www.freshbooks.com http://www.freshbooks.com - Trivializes the slippery slope of managing billable hours not only for you but for sub-contractors. - http://www.bitbucket.org http://www.bitbucket.org - Free, unlimited private repositories. Beneficial to someone like me who has a lot of small projects. I hope Github gets this soon.
- rjsamson 15y agoWow - hadn't heard of diigo but I'm glad you listed them - looks awesome!
- j45 15y agoGlad I'm not alone
- hopeless 15y ago"Free, unlimited private repositories." Best of luck to BitBucket but why on earth would Github do this? They're a business
- j45 15y agoThe same question could be asked why Github gives away so many free repos to open-source projects... :) Bitbucket is a business too. I have no issue paying them. Besides, storing bytes costs pennies, or less.
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- JAVagueArgument 15y agoTwo not mentioned here that I use daily: - DevIsland (for cheap sandbox hosting) http://www.devisland.net/ http://www.devisland.net/ - Freedcamp (for all project management, like basecamp, but free and excellent) http://freedcamp.com/ http://freedcamp.com/
- bretthellman 15y agoI love.... - dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ https://www.dropbox.com/ - gmail: https://mail.google.com https://mail.google.com - KISSMetrics: https://www.kissmetrics.com https://www.kissmetrics.com - Google Analytics (real-time tab): https://www.google.com/analytics https://www.google.com/analytics - Github: https://github.com/ https://github.com/ - HALL.com: https://hall.com/ https://hall.com/
- simon_weber 15y agoWorkflowy. I use it for all my classes and most of my projects.
- dbergqvist 15y ago+1 for WorkFlowy, awesome service.
- chaz 15y agoThis list of startup resources was posted to HN not too long ago: http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage HN Story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3077206 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3077206
- ameen 15y agoThanks for sharing this Chaz. Could you say which of these do you use on a daily basis?
- mdoerneman 15y agoThanks for sharing but this doesn't really answer the question. This is more of a comprehensive list rather than a list you can't live without.
- chauzer 15y ago* RescueTime (http://www.rescuetime.com http://www.rescuetime.com) - time/productivity tracking * Mint.com (http://www.mint.com http://www.mint.com) - personal finance/budgets * Blueleaf (http://www.blueleaf.com http://www.blueleaf.com) - tracking the performance of my investments * Fitocracy (http://www.fitocracy.com http://www.fitocracy.com) - personal fitness and weight lifting logs, also integrates with other apps like RunKeeper * Producteev (http://www.producteev.com http://www.producteev.com) - tasks management * Quora * Google Reader * Google Music * Gmail * Dropbox
- jimmy1234 15y ago* Gmail * Google Apps * RT for helpdesk (http://bestpractical.com/rt/ http://bestpractical.com/rt/) * ActiveCollab fro projects & collaboration (http://www.activecollab.com/ http://www.activecollab.com/) * Tonido for file sharing and sync (http://www.tonido.com http://www.tonido.com)
- Johnyma22 15y ago* http://etherpad.org http://etherpad.org (Real time note taking) * http://docs.google.com http://docs.google.com (Google spreadsheets) * http://hootsuite.com http://hootsuite.com (Manage social stuff) * http://ping.fm http://ping.fm (More social)
- mdoerneman 15y ago* GMail * Google Calendar * Heroku * Freshbooks * Sendgrid * Todoist * Evernote * Stack Overflow * MerelyPoints (I created)
- gnufs 15y agoNewsBlur for reading feeds http://www.newsblur.com http://www.newsblur.com
- benrmatthews 15y agoHave been using Newsblur too, but it doesn't work so well for Hacker News - it doesn't display the article or the comments straight off, so you have to click through twice on your mobile to read either, which is bad for navigation or a slow connection. Anyone from Newsblur here?
- conesus 15y agoYup. I'm the only person from NewsBlur. Got an RSS feed url that has full text? I'd love to use that. Otherwise, I'm planning on building a Text view that effectively extracts the article text. It's not highly prioritized, but it will be after I launch social in a month or so.
- mlapeter 15y agoSelf Control: http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol I found this on HN a while back, it's like a lightweight RescueTime for blocking news sites etc.
- racerrick 15y agoI still use Tadalist (37 Signals app) instead of Basecamp. And we use http://feed.us http://feed.us instead of a CMS on every project.
- evanhamilton 15y agoHere at UserVoice, we're in love with: * http://trello.com http://trello.com Easy card management for tracking all of our projects and bugs. We've got boards for every department. * http://hipchat.com http://hipchat.com Fantastic way to chat in rooms or with individuals. Keeps our two offices connected. * http://argylesocial.com http://argylesocial.com Fantastic social media monitoring, publishing, and most importantly, measurement. * http://airbrake.io http://airbrake.io Error collector, which we publish into Hipchat. (More info: http://blog.airbrake.io/awesome-airbrakers/uservoice/ http://blog.airbrake.io/awesome-airbrakers/uservoice/) * http://optimizely.com/ http://optimizely.com/ Simple and powerful A/B testing tool ...and probably a bunch of others I'm forgetting. Thank you for creating these wonderful apps, everyone!
- kolev 15y agohttp://www.workflowy.com/ http://www.workflowy.com/ kicks butt! Gmail, Google Reader, Google Voice, Google Docs, but everybody uses them...
- 2na 15y agoI must add asana.com which proved to be a wonderful tool that helps we orgenize my tasks & lists. I also started using iDone This which seems to be quite useful.
- bleakgadfly 15y ago* Github (http://www.github.com http://www.github.com) - This and HN/Reddit for fun. I use Github to review my previously comitted code, marking comments in the code of ideas and thoughts so I can correct them when I get home (for profit), and exploring different languages, profiles and projects (for fun). * Workflowy (http://www.workflowy.com http://www.workflowy.com) - Dump all the stuff I might need to remember or note about a project or task here. * Trello (http://www.trello.com http://www.trello.com) - Scrum-board for my tasks, planner for the summer vacation, my wedding, etc. * Diigo (http://www.diigo.com http://www.diigo.com) - To save bookmarks, notes on pages, highlights of stuff I might need to reference, etc * Toggl (http://www.toggl.com http://www.toggl.com) - To keep track of how many hours I work on each project EDIT: Typo/format
- zalew 15y ago* google, gmail & co * http://bitbucket.org http://bitbucket.org * http://mixcloud.com http://mixcloud.com keep it simple, that's how I be.
- zeynalov 15y agohttp://www.trello.com http://www.trello.com http://www.woopra.com http://www.woopra.com http://www.google.com http://www.google.com http://www.google.com/analytics http://www.google.com/analytics http://www.gmail.com http://www.gmail.com http://translate.google.com http://translate.google.com http://www.facebook.com http://www.facebook.com http://www.dropbox.com http://www.dropbox.com http://www.buzzstream.com http://www.buzzstream.com
- rachelbaker 15y agoOne of my favorites, that I haven't seen mentioned yet: Beanstalk for private repo hosting and deploys http://beanstalkapp.com/ http://beanstalkapp.com/
- aymeric 15y agohttp://weekplan.net http://weekplan.net (7 habits weekly planner I have made) http://hackpad.com http://hackpad.com (real time wiki) http://gyazo.com http://gyazo.com (take screenshot and upload automatically) http://envolve.com http://envolve.com (add live chat to your web app)
- markwaters 15y agohttp://tt-rss.org/ http://tt-rss.org/ - Tiny Tiny RSS. http://roundcube.net/ http://roundcube.net/ - RoundCube Mail.
- metaclass 15y agoI've switched from Google to Zoho services two years ago(I hate that "conversation view" in gmail) Zoho Mail turned out to be an excellent webmail app. BTW, their other apps(Docs, Planner, Sheet) are definitely worth a try too. http://www.zoho.com http://www.zoho.com
- bantic 15y agoinstapaper -- saving articles for when I truly have time to read them (as opposed to when I first see them -- while browsing HN during a mini work break) has been a huge timesaver for me.