Tools and services for a lean startup

Tools and services for a lean startup – A list.ly List

  1. Dropbox

    Dropbox
    Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online.

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    Skype

    Skype
    Global, Multiplatform, and free voice and video communication tool.

  3. 3

    Google Apps

    Google Apps
    Email, Chat, Docs for the startup

  4. 4

    GitHub

    GitHub
    Git is an extremely fast, efficient, distributed version control system ideal for the collaborative development of software.

    GitHub is the best way to collaborate with others. Fork, send pull requests and manage all your public and private git repositories.

  5. 5

    Kanbanery

    Kanbanery
    Simple to use, powerful online team or personal kanban board with real-time updates.
    105
    Kanbanery

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    AgileZen

    AgileZen
    AgileZen is a simple and flexible application that draws on ideas from lean manufacturing to provide a new way of thinking about project management. Rather than organizing tasks into a bunch of lists and trying to slice and dice your way through it, AgileZen lets you see and interact with your work visually.
    105
    nikibeth

  7. 7

    WordPress

    Wordpress
    The king of all blogging platforms…it doubles up as startup website.

  8. 8

    Balsamiq Mockups

    Balsamiq Mockups
    Create software mockups in minutes

  9. 9

    Heroku

    Heroku
    Rails deployment made easy.

  10. 10

    JSFiddle

    JSFiddle
    jsFiddle provides an online environment where you can preselect/add popular JavaScript frameworks and test your code.
    109
    brec

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    web2py

    web2py
    web framework developed with Python language
    Easy learning, fast prototyping, safe development!
    Get things Done!

  12. 12

    Pivotal Tracker

    Pivotal Tracker
    Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

  13. 13

    Scalr

    Scalr
    Tool to manage scaling servers in Amazon’s cloud.

  14. 14

    Wufoo

    Wufoo
    Wufoo’s HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and event registrations.

  15. 15

    MailChimp

    MailChimp
    Easy integration built in, intuitive Email Service Provider, initially free.

  16. 16

    OrangeHRM

    OrangeHRM
    Open Source Human Resource Management that continues to improve every release (and it’s free)
    144
    robbkunz

  17. 17

    UserVoice

    UserVoice
    Uservoice communities are the easiest way to turn customer feedback into action

  18. 18

    Basecamp

    Basecamp
    Basecamp is the leading web-based project management and collaboration tool. To-dos, files, messages, schedules, and milestones.

  19. 19

    LucidChart

    LucidChart
    Free Cloud-based drawing tool that replaces Visio and much easier to use!
    144
    robbkunz

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    Chargify

    Chargify
    Recurring billing without the headaches

  21. 21

    Doodle

    Doodle
    Doodle helps scheduling meetings and other appointments.

  22. 22

    Milestone Planner

    Milestone Planner
    Web-based approach to planning for deadline or outcome driven environments. Very visual and easy to use. Works via mobile web too.

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    Amazon Web Services

    Amazon Web Services
    Amazon’s cloud solution

  24. 24

    Sauce Labs

    Sauce Labs
    Sauce OnDemand, cross-browser testing in the cloud, enables pain-free Continuous Deployment setup and operation.

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    BitBucket

    BitBucket
    Code hosting for Mercurial.
    115
    kbaley

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    Evernote

    Evernote
    Great tool for capturing and sharing thoughts.

  27. 27

    Spreedly

    Spreedly
    The easiest way to sell subscriptions on your site. Allows users to signup, renew, upgrade, trial pricing with ease.

  28. 28

    Kanban Pad

    Kanban Pad
    “Nice and lean” online Kanban tool. It’s free, and no signup required. Just start using it!
    106
    kanbanpad

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    TeamCity

    TeamCity
    Quick setup, out of the box continuous integration and unit testing, code quality analysis, pre-tested commits, early reporting on build problems.

  30. 30

    Freshbooks

    Freshbooks
    Send, track and collect payments quickly. Great for teams, freelancers and service providers.

  31. 31

    Banana Scrum

    Banana Scrum
    A tool simple as Scrum itself. Online hosted and standalone versions available.

  32. 32

    LeanKit Kanban

    LeanKit Kanban
    Great for visualizing work of product development or any value stream. Helps find waste and opportunities to improve. Makes it flow.

  33. 33

    Tender Support

    Tender Support
    Great support tool for your lean startup.
    117
    Kanban

  34. 34

    DimDim Web Conferencing

    DimDim Web Conferencing
    Open Source and Free
    144
    robbkunz

  35. 35

    Kodingen

    Kodingen
    Kodingen is a cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, database administration program, and collaboration platform. It includes web based access to file systems and web based FTP and SVN.
    108
    mainerror

  36. 36

    Lighthouse

    Lighthouse
    Excellent Issue Tracking Tool.
    Collaborate effortlessly on projects.

  37. 37

    5pm

    5pm
    Online project management tool
    104
    5pmweb

  38. 38

    WebSequenceDiagrams

    WebSequenceDiagrams
    Simplest tool available for quickly sketching out clean sequence diagrams. No login necessary and automatically generates links pointing to generated images.

  39. 39

    KnowledgeTree

    KnowledgeTree
    Open Source Online Document Management and Workflow Management
    144
    robbkunz

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    Rackspace

    Rackspace
    Managed and cloud hosting along with fanatical support.

  41. 41

    99 Designs

    99 Designs
    99designs is a marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design
    110
    tor

  42. 42

    Mikogo

    Mikogo
    Mikogo is an easy-to-use cross-platform desktop sharing tool, ideal for web conferencing, online meetings or remote support.

  43. 43

    RallyDev

    RallyDev
    Automates Agile / Scrum development allowing end users and developers real-time tracking status all the way to the Minimal Viable Product (MVP)…and its free.
    144
    robbkunz

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    Kanban Tool

    Kanban Tool
    Another Kanban tool, looking really good
    109
    Anadin

  45. 45

    Toktumi Unlimited Virtual PBX

    Toktumi Unlimited Virtual PBX
    Create a big company image at a small business price with Toktumi Unlimited hosted PBX phone service.
    113
    fthead9

  46. 46

    42goals

    42goals
    Helps to track time and work progress
    106
    _irokez

  47. 47

    Unbounce

    Unbounce
    Unbounce is the easiest way to create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages without the need for IT or developers.

  48. 48

    Loopfuse

    Loopfuse
    Marketing automation platform – they have a free version

  49. 49

    The Startup Toolkit

    The Startup Toolkit
    Visually document your evolving business hypotheses.
    A quick place to write down what really matters about your startup, for founders in search of a business model.

  50. 50

    Hootsuite

    Hootsuite
    Twitter Management.

  51. 51

    Cloudware City

    Cloudware City
    The online app store for subscription services – with the bolt on Cloudware Authentication API to add subscription access to your site, hassle free!

  52. 52

    Tungle.me

    Tungle.me
    Tungle.me is a scheduling application that syncs with your existing calendar.

    It helps you to: 1) Eliminate double-bookings, time zone mishaps and the back-and-forth of finding a time to meet. 2)Easily schedule meetings, inside or outside your organization. 3)Invite others to schedule with you, without having to sign up

  53. 53

    yUML

    yUML
    Simplest tool available for quickly sketching out clean uml diagrams. No login necessary and allows embedding of the uml-generation DSL in the url.

  54. 54

    Simplicant

    Simplicant
    Hiring Made Simple
    Simplicant is a simple applicant tracking system for small and medium sized businesses… just like yours!

  55. 55

    smartQ – online Kanban app

    smartQ - online Kanban app
    Online visual ticket board for workflow management and team collaboration based on Kanban.

  56. 56

    BrixHQ

    BrixHQ
    BrixHQ makes online agile project management and collaboration easy and cost effective
    104
    Guest

  57. 57

    Athenz

    Athenz
    A tool for discovering your customer and developing an innovative business model. Features: business model prototyping, experiment journal, idea generation.

  58. 58

    Bontq

    Bontq
    Bontq is a hosted solution that can fit all your bug tracking and project management needs.

    It has been developed for two years and its team tried to find a perfect balance between speed and stability.

    104
    Bontq

  59. 59

    FreeAgent

    FreeAgent
    Online Accounting Software fort Small Business and Freelancers

  60. 60

    softandGUI – UXToolbox

    softandGUI - UXToolbox
    Application Wireframing/Design and Prototyping solution. Quickly and effortlessly design, develop, prototype and document User Interfaces of new and existing applications.

  61. 61

    PrimoPDF

    PrimoPDF
    This is an amazing piece of free software for PDF creation. The product is rock solid and their technical support is quick and friendly.

  62. 62

    Harvest

    Harvest
    Time tracking and invoicing

  63. 63

    Compiere ERP

    Compiere ERP
    Open Source ERP & CRM, scalable platform, grows with your business
    144
    robbkunz

  64. 64

    Batchbook

    Batchbook
    Dead simple CRM & SFA. Integrates well with other lean startup tools
    113
    mrduane

  65. 65

    Unfuddle

    Unfuddle
    Unfuddle is a secure, hosted project management solution for software development teams. Source control, files, time tracking, milestones, tickets, messages…

  66. 66

    ScrumPad

    ScrumPad
    An Agile project management tool that is pragmatic, and not limiting or prescriptive. Provides a complete collaborative product life-cycle (requirements to test to bug) management. The vision is to provide a platform for nurturing a project eco-system.
    103
    ScrumPad

  67. 68

    Campaign Monitor

    Campaign Monitor
    Email marketing software built for designers and their clients to run successful email campaigns.

  68. 69

    Pooling People

    Pooling People
    Temporarily borrow & lend or permanently transfer employees directly among PoolingPeople.ca community members and without intermediary. Cuts down on idle time costs and recruitment fees.

  69. 70

    TrixBox VOIP / Virtual PBX

    TrixBox VOIP / Virtual PBX
    Easy to install, easy to use VOIP / Virtual PBX Solution that is Open source and still free!
    144
    robbkunz

  70. 71

    Prefinery

    Prefinery
    Outsource your beta invite process – you have more important things to work on.

  71. 72

    Vertical Response

    Vertical Response
    Email Marketing Made Easy.

  72. 73

    Freeconferencecall.com

    Freeconferencecall.com
    Free conference calls are simple and easy to use, requiring only a name and an e-mail address to receive an instant account. What’s the catch?

  73. 74

    BizSpark

    BizSpark
    Free access to current, full-featured Microsoft software development tools & platform technologies, including Azure hours & production licenses, for early stage startups.

  74. 75

    Sococo’s Team Space

    Sococo's Team Space
    Always-on, real time communication service in a virtual office interface. Includes IM chat, talk, multi screen share and embedded browser. Ideal for virtual / remote teams.
    103
    soumyapr

  75. 76

    SEO Digger

    SEO Digger
    Find the top ten keywords ranking to your websites.
    372
    anubavam

  76. 77

    Dabbleboard

    Dabbleboard
    Very simple white-board tool for collaborative online white-boarding. Has a built-in chat and voice client and can be used for free without an account.

  77. 78

    crowdSPRING

    crowdSPRING
    crowdSPRING is a crowdsourcing marketplace for graphic design, web design, industrial design and writing services

  78. 79

    whateyedo

    whateyedo
    Want to organise your favourite web-sites more effectively on your home page?
    “whateyedo” creates a time saving personal gateway to the internet which will save you time and reduce your stress levels.

  79. 80

    Atlassian JIRA Studio

    Atlassian JIRA Studio
    Hosted and integrated source control, issue tracking, wiki, Agile planning, continuous builds, source code review.

  80. 81

    Huddle

    Huddle
    A project management tool – free for limited project set and users
    111
    avrono

  81. 82

    zscreen

    zscreen
    Massively flexible screen capture that’s free. Upload to various online pic servers, auto create tinyurls. Works well with Balsamiq and Pivotal. Does the job.
    114
    kbetteley

  82. 83

    Rietveld

    Rietveld
    Free code review tool that allows asynchronous code reviews on change sets.
    115
    kbaley

  83. 84

    weebly

    weebly
    Weebly is an easy, drag & drop tool for making websites, still has quite a bit of flexibility.

  84. 85

    AppMakr – Mobile Ap Creator

    AppMakr - Mobile Ap Creator
    Allows end users with no tech knowledge to create mobile aps in 30 minutes…and its free…wow!
    144
    robbkunz

  85. 86

    Quickker

    Quickker
    Create surveys, manage your respondents, collect, compare, and track responses. Brand your surveys and review them with a powerful analytics system. Find out what your staff, users and customers think.

  86. 87

    Assembla

    Assembla
    Use Assembla’s bug tracking, software development, and project management tools for agile software development and team collaboration. Ticketing, Wikis, Git & Subversion Hosting for your projects

  87. 88

    TeuxDeux

    TeuxDeux
    Online to-do list application TeuxDeux handles your todo list in a minimal, dead-simple interface that looks and works a lot like a paper …

  88. 89

    Liferay Enterprise Portal & Collaboration

    Liferay Enterprise Portal & Collaboration
    Open Source Portal, Publishing, Content and Collaboration
    144
    robbkunz

  89. 90

    Odesk

    Odesk
    Offshore team recruitment.

  90. 91

    vtigerCRM

    vtigerCRM
    Free and 100% Open Source
    144
    robbkunz

  91. 92

    LoopFuse

    LoopFuse
    Email Marketing Automation System

  92. 93

    EditMe

    EditMe
    The easiest way to create collaborative websites. Combine the learning of everyone on the team and improve the way work gets done. Write content and code right in your web browser.
    111
    msmamet

  93. 94

    VersionOne

    VersionOne
    VersionOne’s agile tools are designed from the ground up to support leading-edge development methodologies such as Lean, Scrum, XP, Kanban, and DSDM.

  94. 95

    Rdbhost.com

    Rdbhost.com
    SQL database hosting, accessible over http from your server or from the browser. Python and Javascript APIs supported.
    106
    rdbhost

  95. 96

    Hubspot

    Hubspot
    Inbound Online Marketing to get more website visitors and leads in search engines (SEO), blogs, social media.

  96. 97

    Drupal

    Drupal
    Open source CMS.

  97. 98

    Magento E-Commerce Platform

    Magento E-Commerce Platform
    Magento is an eCommerce software platform. Open Source and Free – very function and feature rich.
    144
    robbkunz

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    Webex

    Webex
    WebEx offers collaboration solutions for online meetings, remote support, and webinars and online events.

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    Linode

    Linode
    A VPS hosting company built upon one simple premise: provide the best possible tools and services to those that know what they need — better hosting.

  2. 2

    Google App Engine

    Google App Engine
    Cloud based computing, free to get started

  3. 3

    Trac

    Trac
    wiki, SCM, and bug/feature tacking all in on.

  4. 4

    visual.ly

    visual.ly
    Create, Share, Explore Great Visualizations.

  5. 5

    Expensify

    Expensify
    Manages expenses, simple, quick, easy. BB, Android and iphone apps. Uploads photos of receipts. Multiple currency conversion. Really responsive customer service.
    114
    kbetteley

  6. 6

    Mocking Bird

    Mocking Bird
    Wireframes on the fly! create and share wireframes online

  7. 7

    SandGlaz

    SandGlaz
    A free and easy to use task management web app inspired by the Important-Urgent matrix. Manage your tasks from anywhere, share with anyone

  8. 8

    SugarSync

    SugarSync
    SugarSync’s online backup, file sync and sharing service makes it easy to stay connected. Get secure cloud storage for all your files — documents, music, photos, and videos.

  9. 9

    Flask

    Flask
    Flask is a microframework for Python based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions. And before you ask: It’s BSD licensed!

  10. 10

    Django

    Django
    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragma

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Goodspring Technologies elige Web2Py

Nuestra elección es web2py marco Python


Martes, 12 de abril 2011 00:03

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Nota: Probablemente estoy omitiendo un paso aquí – para explicar por qué Python es nuestra primera opción lenguaje de scripting. Se trata de un candidato para otra entrada de blog.
No estamos afirmando que una empresa de desarrollo de software, pero entre prestación de servicios de TI a nuestros clientes que son también no tiene miedo de desarrollar pequeñas aplicaciones orientadas al cliente, que son el objetivo de enriquecer la experiencia en TI de nuestros clientes (como se indica en nuestra misión ). Aparte de nuestro general Python, Perl y PHP conocimiento de secuencias de comandos que hemos estado tratando de evaluar la mejor opción para la web del motor marco Python adecuado para nuestro modelo de negocio. Nuestras consideraciones son las siguientes:
- Para encontrar una ‘pila completa’ framework web Pyton, compatible con el controlador Model View (MVC) enfoque, con todas las posibilidades para la captación de datos, plantillas HTML y ayudantes conveniente
- Madura y estable, para poder shorthen el tiempo de desarrollo con menos errores en el código
- Bien documentado
- Para ser fácil encontrar desarrolladores de conocimiento o fácil de ser entrenados en la tecnología elegida

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Figura 1

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Figura 2

Primera acción , tomadas por nosotros era familiarizarse con las opciones de marcos web. Hemos revisado las opciones aquí representados y se enteró de que a pesar del gran número de los marcos existentes, no se puede encontrar fácilmente un marco completo y documentado estable. Gran parte de ellos fueron suspendidos ya, los otros eran versiones de desarrollo y también hubo muchos que buscan los buenos, pero con falta de documentación descriptiva. El top 5 en la lista se convirtió en: Django , Zope , web2py , Pilones y TurboGears . CherryPy vale la pena entrar en esta lista, pero no es un completo (o de pila completo) que viene por defecto. También podría dividir a los elegidos 5 años en dos partes:
- “Todo en uno soluciones” – como Django, Zope, web2py
- Y el resto (Pilones, TurboGears), que son sólo un pegamento entre los sistemas de modelado de famosos (como SQAlchemy ), sistemas de plantillas ( Genshi , Cheetah ), ayudantes ( ToscaWidgets ).
El segundo paso fue evaluar la popularidad de las opciones elegidas. A continuación, contó las palabras clave en los temas de la famosa stackoverflow Q & A del sitio (esta investigación se han colocado alrededor de 01 de abril). Si nos fijamos en la Figura 1 se encuentra Django como el ganador absoluto con un mayor número mucho de preguntas que los otros (Django con 16 500 frente a las torres junto con 550!).
El siguiente paso fue investigar el mercado de trabajo. Las cifras se toman alrededor de 01 de abril. La figura 2 muestra los puestos de trabajo, abierto a los dos la mayoría de sitios web clasificados Bulgaria jobs.bg y itjobs.bg . Los puestos de trabajo están divididos por el lenguaje de programación. No fue una gran sorpresa para nosotros el menor número de posiciones abiertas de Python y el único en el ámbito de los marcos web. Nuestra conclusión es que si queremos tener un desarrollador en cualquier marco de Python en Bulgaria, no hay que prorrogar su contrato, pero la mayoría probablemente le tren / ella en la tecnología.
Después de leer nuevamente toda la documentación y la toma de excersizes la práctica con los marcos elegidos, que terminó con las dos soluciones más adecuadas para nuestra situación. Django y web2py fueron las soluciones con características de gran alcance en realidad, una excelente documentación y lo mejor posible las curvas de aprendizaje . Una buena discusión para la comparación de estas dos soluciones puede encontrarse aquí . Hemos llamado a web2py como nuestra primera opción, porque:
- Tiene un código muy limpio y estricta aplicación MVC.
- Fácil de aprender e intuitivo – de los métodos más simple modelo para el Python nativo de plantillas de idioma.
- Creemos que un promedio de desarrolladores de PHP puede fácilmente migrar a web2py
- Web2py tiene menos de la comunidad de Django, pero por otro lado es un marco más reciente (desde octubre 2007). Creemos que web2py podría convertirse en más y más popular en los próximos años.

Información adicional a partir del 14 de abril 2011

Me han comentado por Massimo , que amablemente envió la información, que es nuevo para mí. Yo soy la adición de estos nuevos datos a las explicaciones sobre:
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Figura 3

Figura 3 representa la popularidad de web2py, Django y Rails en el Grupos de Google . Se puede ver claramente, que la tendencia web2py para el periodo marzo 2010-marzo 2011 va en aumento y durante los últimos seis meses que está en la parte superior de estas tres soluciones de los mensajes enviados al mes. Mi conclusión sería, que nuestro sentimiento de web2py a ser cada vez más popular en el futuro es ya un hecho, no sólo un sentimiento.

 

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Todor Todorov
14/04/2011 once y cuarto

Citando massimo:
Buena lectura. Pensé que esto puede ser interesante para usted, para complementar los datos: http://i.imgur.com/sPLzH.png

Gracias, Massimo, por el comentario y la nueva información. Ya han publicado sus cifras como complementarios. Necesitábamos estas cifras como una prueba, que nuestros buenos sentimientos para web2py se está convirtiendo en realidad.


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massimo
04/14/2011 04:59

Buena lectura. Pensé que esto puede ser interesante para usted, para complementar los datos: http://i.imgur.com/sPLzH.png


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