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Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2014 edition
Last year, Sharjeel Qureshi revived the tools of the trade thread on HN for discussing useful services for startups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235137
It's been over a year since then. What is everyone relying on now?
- techaddict009 12y agohttps://baremetrics.io/ https://baremetrics.io/ - Beremetrics if you using stripe as the payment gateway.
- timonv 12y agoOur startup: --Metrics: Mixpanel (http://www.mixpanel.com http://www.mixpanel.com) --Issue tracking Back to post it wall --SVM Github (http://www.github.com http://www.github.com) --Deployment Heroku (http://www.heroku.com http://www.heroku.com) Custom stuff --Sales Close.io (http://close.io http://close.io) --Payments Braintree (http://www.braintreepayments.com http://www.braintreepayments.com) --Errortracking Appsignal (http://www.appsignal.com http://www.appsignal.com) Sentry (for non Ruby stuff, self hosted) (http://getsentry.com http://getsentry.com) --Performance metrics Appsignal (http://www.appsignal.com http://www.appsignal.com) New Relic (http://www.newrelic.com http://www.newrelic.com) And some specific stuff in mixpanel --Logs Papertrail (http://www.papertrailapp.com http://www.papertrailapp.com) --Databases and such Elasticsearch (http://www.elasticsearch.org http://www.elasticsearch.org) Postgresql Redis Memcache --Frameworks and stacks Golang (bare, high performance/reliability stuff) Rails/ruby (Main -crud application) Backbone (frontend) Node.js (high performance low reliabillity stuff) Clojure (Wrapping a language detection api) --Support Zendesk As a freelancer/developer: --Editor: Vim --Todos/Research/Planning/Notes/Calendar: Orgmode --Invoicing: Moneybird (dutch, http://www.moneybird.com http://www.moneybird.com) --Email: Sup (https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup) --Backups: Git + Dropbox + Timemachine (to Nas) + Amazon Glacier