Cheap or free web-based tools for your web startup

+1 for Pivotal Tracker. One of the most polished UIs I've worked with. It's a pleasure for development teams to use; I use it for both freelancing and the day job. Also helps management have its finger on the pulse of progress, and have an accurate answer to the question "when will X be done?"

My favorite tool for finding available domains while discovering product/company name ideas is <a href="http://wordoid.com" rel="nofollow">http://wordoid.com</a> - made by a HNer, I think.

Wait, no Heroku? It should definitely be listed in the Price-Scalable Hosting section. Like AppEngine it's also free starting out, and super easy to scale. Plus it's all rails, so you don't even have to learn any App Engine API.

domai.nr is by far the best domain finding service and is also totally free. I've bought 8 or so domains with it.

For browser compatibility: browsershots.org<p>Litmusapp may be nicer and have summaries, but it's hard to beat browsershot's simplicity, breadth, and free-ness. Though I have yet to see any provide decent testing for anything dynamic (videos, perhaps?).

I didn't know <a href="http://www.ask500people.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ask500people.com/</a>. Looks like an useful resource. I don't care about the map though.

Here is a longer list specifically for web publishers: <a href="http://publisherapps.org" rel="nofollow">http://publisherapps.org</a>

The recommended site vyew.com looks good, but<p><pre><code> http://vyew.com/ </code></pre> 301s to<p><pre><code> http://vyew.com/site </code></pre> which in turn 301s to<p><pre><code> http://vyew.com/site/index3 </code></pre> Two 301 redirects, and a damn ugly default URL to boot—I have a hard time trusting them to get anything else right. Am I wrong?

How is Google App Engine? Are there any pain points one should be aware of before using it?

I found this helps when collaborating remotely, to send big files around - and there are other companies offering a similar service:<p><a href="http://free.mailbigfile.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://free.mailbigfile.com/index.php</a>

Didn't see this category, but for the developers of a startup, an easy to use / free bug tracking system can be found in BugNotes: <a href="http://www.bugnotes.com/home.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.bugnotes.com/home.php</a>

I am working on simplified hosted accounting service for startups based upon open source sql-ledger. There will be a free single user version.<p>Keep yourself updated via blog or mailing list (see my info)

<a href="http://lighthouseapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://lighthouseapp.com</a> and <a href="http://tenderapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://tenderapp.com</a> for bug tracking and support tools that integrate.

The madmimi website gave me a headache.<p>Is there any site which allows me to display a text box on my site and collects the emails given and allows me to send newsletters?

Woopra is a great realtime analytics service. I'm building our iPhone client...

really appreciated the list of tools. Anybody with a similar list but with other tasks ?

Great article.

Great list. Thanks for sharing.