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I really enjoy posts like this. I've long had an idea to start a site like usesthis.com (The Setup) but to interview startups and ask them what tools and services they use internally.

At Crunchbase we were going to expand company profiles to include services and tools. We started with PR agencies and law firms[1], etc. as service providers, but we never found a chance to expand it to more general tools and services.

Does anybody know if a site like that already exists, or is anybody interested in implementing something like it?

[1] eg. look at http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook - down the left-hand side menu you'll find a section called 'Service Providers'

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I don't think it does really. Sites like leanstack.io exist but are not the same thing, they just provide lists of tools without the great context and human contact that usesthis has. Other sites have long interviews with founders without too much emphasis on the tools used.

I am currently adapting the usesthis approach to an idea that I have and would be very interested in chatting with you, or anybody else who's interested, to brainstorm on how to proceed with your idea.

We've actually have more detailed posts now (i.e. http://blog.leanstack.io/the-cloud-stack-that-helped-sendgri...). But I'm with you on context, we're going the interview route moving forward. Glad to chat with you and anyone else to brainstorm and see how I can be helpful though. Feel free to email me at yonas@leanstack.io.

Interesting. I run a crunchbase like application, http://octopus.org. Octopus is focused on Marketing apps specifically but I'm thinking of ways to add more value. For example, every dev/company that adds an app to the site is given a profile but I've not really done much in the way of adding tools and services as you mention.

http://weusethat.com/ looks promising, but it hasn't had a pull request merged in almost a year: https://github.com/weusethat/we-use-that

Yup, that's exactly what we're doing at Leanstack.io. Let's chat!

love the service! love the emails even better.

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