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Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2014 edition

24 pointsby johncooganabout 11 years ago
Last year, Sharjeel Qureshi revived the tools of the trade thread on HN for discussing useful services for startups: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5235137<p>It&#x27;s been over a year since then. What is everyone relying on now?

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techaddict009about 11 years ago
<a href="https://baremetrics.io/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;baremetrics.io&#x2F;</a> - Beremetrics if you using stripe as the payment gateway.
timonvabout 11 years ago
Our startup:<p>--Metrics:<p>Mixpanel (<a href="http://www.mixpanel.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mixpanel.com</a>)<p>--Issue tracking<p>Back to post it wall<p>--SVM<p>Github (<a href="http://www.github.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.github.com</a>)<p>--Deployment<p>Heroku (<a href="http://www.heroku.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.heroku.com</a>)<p>Custom stuff<p>--Sales<p>Close.io (<a href="http://close.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;close.io</a>)<p>--Payments<p>Braintree (<a href="http://www.braintreepayments.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.braintreepayments.com</a>)<p>--Errortracking<p>Appsignal (<a href="http://www.appsignal.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appsignal.com</a>)<p>Sentry (for non Ruby stuff, self hosted) (<a href="http://getsentry.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getsentry.com</a>)<p>--Performance metrics<p>Appsignal (<a href="http://www.appsignal.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appsignal.com</a>)<p>New Relic (<a href="http://www.newrelic.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newrelic.com</a>)<p>And some specific stuff in mixpanel<p>--Logs<p>Papertrail (<a href="http://www.papertrailapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.papertrailapp.com</a>)<p>--Databases and such<p>Elasticsearch (<a href="http://www.elasticsearch.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elasticsearch.org</a>)<p>Postgresql<p>Redis<p>Memcache<p>--Frameworks and stacks<p>Golang (bare, high performance&#x2F;reliability stuff)<p>Rails&#x2F;ruby (Main -crud application)<p>Backbone (frontend)<p>Node.js (high performance low reliabillity stuff)<p>Clojure (Wrapping a language detection api)<p>--Support<p>Zendesk<p>As a freelancer&#x2F;developer:<p>--Editor:<p>Vim<p>--Todos&#x2F;Research&#x2F;Planning&#x2F;Notes&#x2F;Calendar:<p>Orgmode<p>--Invoicing:<p>Moneybird (dutch, <a href="http://www.moneybird.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.moneybird.com</a>)<p>--Email:<p>Sup (<a href="https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sup-heliotrope&#x2F;sup</a>)<p>--Backups:<p>Git + Dropbox + Timemachine (to Nas) + Amazon Glacier