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Free services every tech entrepreneur needs to know
- niamh 13y agoI like how this post is broken down into specific categories. The most important tools are under "Analyzing and Improving". Obviously I use google analytics but haven't used Visual Website Optimizer. Is it like Optimizely?
- padan 13y agoYes, it's very much like Optimizely. Here's a good (but old) comparison: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-main-differences-benefits-of-Visual-Website-Optimizer-vs-Optimizely http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-main-differences-benefits-...
- mkuhn 13y agoWhen using the two tools I much preferred VWO editor that allowed to setup the tests. Besides that I found the tools to be quite equal.
- mjshampine 13y agothings like crazyegg are good too. you can just use the 30 day trial to test it out.
- mkuhn 13y agoFor monitoring the article mentions Pingdom. I have found New Relic's server monitoring [1] to be quite nice as well. The nice thing is how it integrates with other New Relic monitoring for your app and that it actually is free. [1] http://newrelic.com/server-monitoring http://newrelic.com/server-monitoring
- iterable 13y agoGreat article. Super important everyone knows these services. Steve Blank also has a TON of great free resources on his blog: http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/
- FireBeyond 13y agoWhilst technically true, “at the lowest level”, I find it hard not to take with a pinch of salt any article that describes Heroku as a “free service”.