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Agile Startup Tools
Jack Po, an experienced entrepreneur and local friend of mine, just posted some tools startups might find useful. While I agree with most of what he has to say, some healthy horizon-broadening is in order.
I’m new to the startup scene, but I’ve always been a tech guy. Here are my tools:
Website Registration: 1and1 has free private registration that you can toggle on or off. $7 is the base fee for a .com.
Website Hosting: Engine Yard (for rails), SliceHost (for custom stuff), Media Temple (for shared hosting), Google App Engine (easily scalable, but has had hiccups…)
DNS Hosting: I stick with whoever hosts my site. I’ve never had any problems.
Email, Calendar, Wiki, Internal Messaging: Google Apps
Actual Website: Ruby, Java, or Plain old HTML/CSS/jQuery
Phone: Skype, Grand Central (but GC keeps deleting my old messages… boo!), iPhone
Conference Calls: Skype - easy and free.
Surveys, Spreadsheets and Documents: Google Docs - The coolest part of this suite is the real-time collaboration. Plus, there’s a form-filler mode for the spreadsheet app that you can use to conduct surveys.
Newsletters: Google Groups (for continuous conversations) or Gmail email aliases with BCC (for periodicals).
Project Management: Lighthouse, Github, Google Code, Sourceforge, or just plain old face-time. I’m actually itching to build a way more intuitive project management system. But for now, I can live with these. (I used to use Basecamp, but it can be abused too easily…)
Website statistics: Google Analytics
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Google Sitemaps
Code Tools: Linux Shell, TextMate, Eclipse
Computers: Apple Macs.
Presentations: Apple Keynote
Graphics: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Omnigraffle