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Ask HN: What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup?
What set of utilities and services (online or offline) do you use to manage your startup? There are obviously many possible needs, like book-keeping, private and secure sharing and backing up of files, communication between co-founders and partners, customer care and ticket handling, etc... I'm not clueless about these subjects, but I'd like to hear what the HN community recommends.
- pxlpshr 17y agoPM: Basecamp Finance: OSX Numbers Billing: iBiz Files/Hybrid SVN: Dropbox External Com: OtherInbox.com Internal Com: GTalk, Skype, iChat, etc. Documents: OSX Pages and Google Docs
- jseifer 17y agoAs a freelancer: Misc: Backpack Project proposals: Writeboard Invoicing: Freshbooks Source control: Github Bugs: Redmine and Pivotal Tracker Other docs: Google Docs To dos: Things Files: Dropbox
- juliend2 17y agoAs a freelancer : Project management : BaseCamp Personnal GTD improvement : RescueTime Invoices & estimates : Freshbooks Accounting : my accountant uses Simply Accounting (Windows app on my vmware box) Files : dropbox Source control : Git on RepositoryHosting.com (6$/month and i can manage any number of SVN/Git repositories. And it just works) Synch iCal with google calendar Synch contacts with Plaxo
- slig 17y agoThanks for the tip on RepositoryHosting :-) Their price rocks.
- pclark 17y agoPlanning: Pivotal Tracker. Finance: Kashflow. Todos: Basecamp. SVN: Beanstalk. Tickets: Zendesk. Files [internal, collaboration & sharing]: Dropbox. Email: Google Docs.
- Oompa 17y agoGithub, Campfire & Basecamp, and Google Apps for Domains.
- twrensch 17y agoI'm not happy with my mix yet, and spend too much time trying out new things. Here's what I'm currently using: PM: Google notebook, Google calendar, "Stickies app" (Tomboy) Finance: sigh still looking Files: Dropbox Communications: GMail, Skype (NOT Twitter) Documents: Mix Google Docs & OpenOffice. I've started using Etherpad quite a bit as well. Invoicing & Billing: Still looking for something that fits my needs, Spreadsheets & Docs for now Source code: Local SNV server, thinking about Github
- laktek 17y agoGive a try on CurdBee (http://curdbee.com http://curdbee.com) for invoicing and billing. It would fit perfectly for your startup if you are looking for a smart and low cost solution (you can start using it for Free!)
- ErrantX 17y agoIn no particular order: Bitbucket (mercurial hosting), Gmail, Komodo Edit, Dropbox, Gtalk, Zoho Docs For the record I know Komodo isnt really "management" but as it's the most crucial part of my workflow.... :)
- niyazpk 17y agoI am a single programmer startup. Still working on my website. TortoiseSVN (source control) is the only thing I am using as of now. I have a to-do.txt in my desktop to remind me of what next. I use Gmail to communicate and StackOverflow to get help. Since I haven't completed building my application, I never needed other services to manage the work.
- pyroman 17y agoThis wiki was created to list what tools are used by which startups. http://startuptools.pbworks.com/ http://startuptools.pbworks.com/
- chique 17y agoPivitol Tracker, Harvest, Google Apps for Domain.
- ComputerGuru 17y agoJira & FishEye.
- caffeine 17y agoPlanning: VIM Blogging: VIM E-mail: VIM Coding: VIM Finances: VIM VCS: Git .. with comments edited in VIM ;)
- hbien 17y agoOut of curiosity, how do you do your email and finances from Vim? Is there an awesome email plugin for vim that I don't know about =]
- brl 17y agoHave you seen this: http://vimperator.org http://vimperator.org
- pyr3 17y agoI would be interested in a write-up of how you do your planning and finances using Vim (format, helper scripts, etc). I'm mostly interested in your workflow/text file formatting is like.
- entelarust 17y agoProject management: Trac Versioning: SVN/Trac Monitoring: Nagios, Pingdom Support: Get Satisfaction Newsletters: Campaign Monitor Communication: Gtalk, Email
- sidmitra 17y agoJust to mention, Microsoft office offers some pretty nifty services in this regard. Check out Office Live Small Business. You get a workspace with 5Gb of file storage. You can view docs, ppts right in the browser and with a plugin you can edit them right on your desktop MS office. There's also Live Mesh service (seperate 5 GB) that allows you to sync files across different computers. You can use it as a documentation, file sharing tool. . . . We have a Team of 5. We started with a google based solution for now. Conference Calls: Skype 3$ accounts(to dial into US) + http://www.freeconference.com/ http://www.freeconference.com/ Mailing List: Google Groups Collaboration: Google Docs Scheduling: Google Calendar Project Mgmt: Google Sites (with different task list), with widgets showing our docs + calendars on google services. Files: Google groups has 100 MB, so does Sites. VCS: git/svn on pvt server.
- jlangenauer 17y agoBook-keeping: Saasu Issue/Bug Tracking: Lighthouse SVN hosting: Beanstalk Backups: Amazon S3 Site Monitoring: Pingdom All of which I'd recommend - Saasu especially if you're based in Australia.
- coopr 17y agoDo we seriously have to re-ask this question every few weeks?! http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive
- NemanjaSAGE 17y agoA couple of FREE products I would recommend are: Simply Accounting First Step Express for accounting http://www.simplyaccounting.com/downloads/firststep/express/ http://www.simplyaccounting.com/downloads/firststep/express/ and Billing Boss for invoicing http://www.billingboss.com/ http://www.billingboss.com/
- stumpy124 17y agoWe use http://www.helpspot.com http://www.helpspot.com