Is anyone surprised that so many of those are payed services instead of OSS projects?<p>I understand payroll, analytics and others like such. But things like bug trackers, dashboards, CIs, exception handling, log monitoring. At some level maybe it is a bit like selling shovels during a gold rush. Find what most start-ups need and monetize that. The gold prospector has a high chance of going home empty-handed, but he will surely need a shovel to even start digging.
It's a great list, but I don't understand why it's limited to SaaS. Self hosted apps could definitely be considered "tools of the trade". Perhaps I'm just biased because I sell a self hosted project management app - <a href="http://duetapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://duetapp.com</a>, but it seems like an arbitrary distinction....
> Jenkins | <a href="http://jenkins-ci.org" rel="nofollow">http://jenkins-ci.org</a> | @jenkinsci | $60/mo - $200/mo<p>AFAIK, and can tell from the <a href="http://jenkins-ci.org" rel="nofollow">http://jenkins-ci.org</a> site linked, Jenkins is still free (libre and
gratuit).
Another updated list of tools and utilities: <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDev...</a>
Pay pay pay pay pay pay pay.<p>I have all of that and pay nothing. It builds up otherwise very rapidly.<p>For example the company I work for currently churns out a mere $16k a year for JIRA now that the pay pay pay has caught up...
What happened to all the applications and services for outsourcing HR departments in terms of payroll, benefits, ect.? -- thought there were a bunch more than Workday and ZenPayroll?<p>Getting a full list of those would be particularly useful.
We tried to use Airbrake at the last startup I contracted for and it was embarrassingly underwhelming. The landing page makes it look awesome, but compared to HoneyBadger, it was just not up to par when it came to error notification. We were looking for centralized errors for Ruby and Python code so we ended up going with Rollbar.<p>Airbrake shirts are great though.
Nice job Chris! If anyone wants to see feedback from other developers about these tools, the majority of them are on <a href="http://leanstack.io/popular" rel="nofollow">http://leanstack.io/popular</a> (disclaimer: Founder of Leanstack.io here).
Why are there two different Log Monitoring sections, with no overlap in tools?<p>An alphabetisation of section headings and a clickable Table of Contents would be good, given the pretty comprehensive nature of the list.
I created a PR for a Cloud Storage section since I didn't notice one yet and added <a href="https://kloudless.com" rel="nofollow">https://kloudless.com</a> to it. (disclosure: co-founder of Kloudless here).<p>Google Docs is probably the closest cloud storage-related utility on that list, but is under the "Notes" category.
It's fascinating that the proliferation of EC2 has enabled services by different vendors to be provided on virtually the same physical network (with associated performance).<p>Much of what is attributed to the rise of SaaS and "The Cloud" is in fact a direct consequence of Amazon's infrastructure.
As a small time developer, none of these tools is in my budget, I have no budget. So this list is useless to me.<p>Ok sure, I wasn't your target audience, that's fine. but the title doesn't suggest "Tools for active/established companies who have money to burn and needs to fill"
List only has (the neat) Hirefire under Heroku tools, here's a list of 60 separate Heroku tools:<p><a href="https://www.expeditedssl.com/pages/the-hot-and-heavy-list-of-heroku-development-resources" rel="nofollow">https://www.expeditedssl.com/pages/the-hot-and-heavy-list-of...</a>
This list does a great job of curating the most popular apps by category.<p>There's a ton of long-tail to SaaS these days. I've heard a lot of people use our app directory to discover some of them: <a href="https://zapier.com/zapbook" rel="nofollow">https://zapier.com/zapbook</a>
You guys seem to be missing Wercker. <a href="http://wercker.com/" rel="nofollow">http://wercker.com/</a> is my favorite CI/CD. Its free while its in beta, has a great UI and has a simple but powerful configuration system
<a href="http://www.cssilize.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cssilize.com/</a> ($35) and <a href="https://sudopay.com/" rel="nofollow">https://sudopay.com/</a> ($29) were discussed here before.
I missing the web directories of yore that have such nice lists. Search engines only bring up a few relevant results and the rest are all keyword and link stuffed. Hope you take some pull requests or make this a wiki.
"ElasticSales is currently booked out for the rest of the year and therefore not able to accept any new clients at the moment."<p>Any alternative Sales as a Service recommendations?