Hacker News Tools of the Trade

Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News.

Background

In 2010, Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious, posted the following on Hacker News:

When I first started delicious, we had to host most of the services ourselves. CVS, mail, mailing lists, etc etc etc.

These days, lots of that stuff is available as SaaS. What are the tools and services people use instead of hosting their own?

(I'm not talking about actual production services like EC2 and Heroku and whatnot. We can go over this in another thread.)

In 2013, Sharjeel Qureshi, posted the following:

Few years ago, Joshua Schachter started this thread on HN for discussing hosted useful services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1769910

The contribution in thread introduced many interesting SaaS services which can immensely help in deploying services as well as development.

It's been three years since then. What do we have today?

Many thanks to the big contributors to the previous threads, including garrettdimon, espeed, netshade, and cmadan, and many more that I haven't named.

Now

I've collected more data from Hacker News, AngelList and Quora, to make the 2015 and beyond version. This list also includes self-hosted as well as hosted services.

It's on GitHub for a reason! Please submit pull requests.

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Contents

• Business

  • Payments
    • Accounting/Invoicing
    • Billing & Payment Processing
    • Payroll
  • Marketing
    • Remote Collaboration
    • Remote Workers
    • SEO Tools
    • Social Media Marketing
    • Email Marketing
    • Sources of Clicks/Ad Platforms
    • Transactional Email
  • Productivity
    • Group Communication/Chat Tools
    • Knowledge Tracking/Wiki
    • Password Management
    • Personal Productivity
    • Planning & Project Management
    • Time Tracking
  • For Founders
    • Fundraising / Investor Relations
    • Naming
    • Presentations / Slides
    • Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, Legal Documents
    • Space Rental
  • Business Tracking & Analytics
    • Dashboards
    • Business & Traffic Analytics
    • Income Analytics
  • Design
    • Business Cards and Print Material
    • Content Creation/Infographics
    • Design Collaboration
    • Designers
    • Prototyping/Mockups
  • UX
    • Conversion Optimization & A/B Testing
    • User Feedback
    • User Management
    • User Testing
    • Customer Feedback
    • Forms / Surveys
  • Others
    • CRM/Sales Tools
    • Customer Support/Help Desks
    • Community Tools
    • HR
    • Phone/PBX/SMS
    • Shipping

• Tech

  • Data
    • Database-aaS
    • Database
    • Storage
  • Programming Productivity
    • Documentation
    • Engineering Metrics
    • Notes
  • API
    • API Builder
    • Other APIs
  • Testing & Monitoring
    • Browser/Email Testing
    • Load Testing
    • Server Monitoring
    • System Monitoring
    • Log Monitoring
    • Status Blogs/User Alerts
    • Ops Alerts and Scheduling
  • As a Service
    • Backend-aaS
    • Database-aaS
    • PaaS
    • WebSockets-aaS
  • DevSecOps
    • App Developer Tools
    • Application Performance
    • Continuous Integration/Code Quality
    • Ops Alerts and Scheduling
    • Security
    • Bug/Issue Tracking
    • Source Code Hosting
  • Simple
    • Email Collection/Landing Page Apps
    • Boilerplates
  • Hosting
    • AWS Tools
    • Heroku Tools
    • Video Hosting
    • Source Code Hosting
  • Others
    • Application Distribution
    • Deployment
    • DNS
    • Error/Exception Handling
    • Geocoding
    • Identity Verification
    • Localization & Internationalization
    • Offsite Backups
    • Personal Machine Backups
    • Search
    • Site Search
    • Task Scheduling
    • VPS

Identity Verification

| Service | Twitter | Pricing | Description | |:--------|:--------|:--------|:------------| | Cognito | @getcognito | - | Frictionless, modern identity verification that starts with just a phone number. | | Onfido | @Onfido | $2/verification | Individual ID verifications, Document Checks and Facial recognition. |

Browser/Email Testing

| Service | Twitter | Pricing | Description | |:--------|:--------|:--------|:------------| | BrowserStack | @browserstack | $29/mo - $199/mo | Live, web-based browser testing. | | Litmus | @litmusapp | $79/mo - $159/mo | Lets you preview your campaigns across 30+ real email clients and devices in minutes. | | Sauce Labs | @saucelabs | $19/mo - $298/mo | Run your web and mobile app tests across hundreds of real browsers and platforms instantly. | | EmailOnAcid | @emailonacid | $44/mo - $260/mo | Quickly ensure that your emails don't look like crap in any email client. | | Rainforest QA | @rainforestqa | $500/mo - $2000/mo | Insanely simple integration testing. | | DebugMail | - | Free | Easy to use fake mail (SMTP) server for developers. | | Mailosaur | @mailosaur | $19/mo - $199/mo | Email, SMS and Spam testing with virtual SMTP servers for business-grade usage. | | Mailtrap | @Mailtrap | Free - $299.99/mo | A fake SMTP server for development and staging environments along with a REST API for testing. | | testmail.app | @testmailapp | Free - $29/mo | Automate end-to-end email tests with unlimited mailboxes and a GraphQL API. | | Polypane | @polypane | Free trial - $12+/mo | A browser built from the ground up to create and test websites and apps. |

Bug/Issue Tracking

| Service | Twitter | Pricing | Description | |:--------|:--------|:--------|:------------| | BitBucket Issues | @bitbucket | $10/mo - $200/mo, Unlimited private code repositories | Host, manage, and share Git and Mercurial repositories in the cloud. Free, unlimited private repositories for up to 5 developers give teams the flexibility to grow and code without restrictions. | | BugHerd | @bugherd | $29/mo - $180/mo | Turn client feedback into actionable