Hacker News Reader

Comment by nikcub | Hacker News Reader

I think these 'what products and services does your startup use' type articles are more interesting than the usesthis series about what tools developers use.

Somebody should setup a blog where they interview a startup founder each week and just ask them to list services they use along with a mini single-paragraph review of each.

Edit: after thinking about it, I might just do this as a weekend project. A quick search and I couldn't find anything similar, the closest I remember is the Ajaxian blog startup interviews which they stopped doing. If you would like your startup featured email me, ill be reaching out to a few people so if there is interest I will likely get it going

View on HN

I'd be really interested in this if you do it! I was thinking about doing this myself for security/infrastructure questions (blog + video interviews) as a research and sales tool (I'm building a security product company), but I guess business infrastructure questions might be popular too.

Are you a bay area person?

Appsumo does it already with their tools of the trade series - http://blog.appsumo.com/

These pop up quite often and personally I find them quite boring.

A lot of it is personal choice, e.g. IRC & campfire being 'laggy', for me Google apps is meh apart from mail/calendar, you better pony up for MS office if you're dealing with a lot of other businesses, themeforest I find extremely hard to find a decent looking, well written html template, most of them are div crazy, extremely heavy CSS/js payloads or use cufon, kerrschpitt.

And assistly looks like a total rip off at $69 p/m per user (to me anyway).

I mean swipe might make an interesting submission in itself, but the homepage is light on details, looks like it's in a closed beta, which probably means US only, no good for me.

Anyway tl;dr is that the tools your business uses are very personal choices of services many of us already know about, I find them dull.

What's more interesting is what's missing, no accounting system, no bug tracking, no server uptime monitor, no analytics, no A/B testing.

You're right; Swipe is in closed beta at the moment. An email never hurts though

Great idead! Call it usesthese.com.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com