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Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by dangrossman on Friday January 27, 2012 @04:37PM (#3520282)
* http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/ (IMAP/webmail)

* http://www.snapengage.com (sales/support chats)

* http://www.zendesk.com (basic KB & support tickets)

* http://www.github.com & http://www.springloops.com (public & private repositories)

* http://www.geckoboard.com (dashboard of financial state of the company)

And I'm a power user of my own SaaS products:

* http://www.w3counter.com (realtime visitor analytics)

* http://www.w3roi.com (ad performance tracking)

* http://www.dialshield.com (automatically calls high fraud risk customers during the checkout process on my ecommerce sites)

Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by bks on Monday January 30, 2012 @12:25AM (#3527630)
Only going to mention things that other have not mentioned.

http://Elance.com - Remote contractors. Hourly or job based

http://oDesk.com - Virtual Admins

http://Freshbooks.com - Automation of invoicing. My average days to pay are about 9. A bill I am very happy to pay each month. I use chronomate as the time tracking portion.

http://adroll.com - advertising retargetting

http://join.me - free screen sharing better than go-to-meeting

http://highrisehq.com - CRM

Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by bkyan on Friday January 27, 2012 @11:02PM (#3521276)
Services I use for consulting assignments: basecamp (file sharing), harvest (time tracking), go-to-meeting (screen sharing), skype (phone calls), gmail (e-mails), hellofax (faxing paperwork that involve my signature)

Services I use on my own projects: url2png (thumbnail generation of web pages), pusher (real-time data push of server stats to a web page), google analytics (visitor stats)

My own SAAS projects: mindcast (corkboard for mashing up 3rd-party saas windows and notes), shadowcatcher (screen capture and screenshot sharing utility)

Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by ntulip on Tuesday January 31, 2012 @02:42PM (#3534833)
what and where can I find "mindcast"?
Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by bkyan on Saturday February 04, 2012 @02:16AM (#3550541)
http://beta.mindcast.com (The 1-minute intro video is a bit old and needs to be updated, but you should get the general idea...)
Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by cucho on Thursday February 02, 2012 @08:41AM (#3542615)
Last startup:

  zendesk (customer support),
  github (private repo),
  campfire (team communication),
  google apps (email, docs),
  odesk (extra hands),
  highrise (potential-investor relations),
  clicky (real time web analytics),
  dropbox (file sharing),
  wordy (proof-reading),
  mygengo (translations),
  new relic (monitor rails apps),
  zerigo (dns),
  sendgrid (sending mails),
  hoptoad (app logging),
  transloadit (image uploading, processing),
  heroku (app hosting)
Edit: learned HN formatting
Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by bkyan on Sunday February 05, 2012 @04:07AM (#3553679)
How does HN formatting work?
Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by nc on Friday January 27, 2012 @05:46PM (#3520549)
At my last startup

GitHub, Pivotal tracker, Basecamp, Campfire, Campaign monitor, Send grid, NewRelic, Litmus

Good question, would love to see others chip in!

Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by noveltysystems on Friday January 27, 2012 @02:38PM (#3519793)
Chargify, SnapEngage, SalesForce, Campfire, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, DropBox, BufferApp
Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by dchuk on Friday January 27, 2012 @01:47PM (#3519515)
hmmmmmmm

1) github 2) pivotal tracker 3) campfire 4) olark 5) cheddargetter (technically)

Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by tonyarkles on Friday January 27, 2012 @01:04PM (#3519312)
Basecamp, Bitbucket, Xero
Re:Ask HN: Which SaaS products does your startup use on a da... by webbruce on Friday January 27, 2012 @12:42PM (#3519188)
Mint