Great post and idea.<p>We're paying for:<p>- MongoHQ<p>- MailChimp<p>- New Relic<p>- AWS (although not using most of their services)<p>- Github<p>- Dropbox<p>- Skype<p>Worth a mention although less-involving services:<p>- DNSPark: <a href="http://dnspark.net/" rel="nofollow">http://dnspark.net/</a><p>- Dynadot: <a href="http://dynadot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://dynadot.com/</a><p>And of course our web host:<p><a href="http://hivelocity.net/" rel="nofollow">http://hivelocity.net/</a>
i really like these "what i pay for" lists that are starting... we have a list here too:
<a href="http://ladyada.net/library/software/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://ladyada.net/library/software/index.html</a><p>(left column) of all the things we use for our open-source hardware business.<p>we'd love to hear suggestions for more too..
Google Talk uses Jabber which has support for group chats. Hosting your own jabber server isn't a huge deal. You could use IRC for group chats and have multiple rooms there as well. Again, it's not a huge deal to setup your own IRC server.<p>It'd be nice if there were some free/open-source software services listed there, but oh well.
Our startup uses several of the products on the list, but there is a one big name missing: Hellofax<p>We use Hellofax several times a week and it's <i>great</i>! It makes signing and faxing documents extremely easy, instead of the mess it used to be.
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