WEB TOOLS

Below is a list of commonly used startup tools. If you know of other tools, please contact and we’ll add them!

OPERATIONS TOOLS

Online meeting platform / Web conference tools

GoMeetNow
GoToMeeting
iMeet
Mikogo
Saaba
Salescrunch
Screenleap
Webex
Yugma
Yuuguu

Dashboards

Feedback and FAQ

Amplicate
CustomerSure.com
FogBugz
Get Satisfaction
GutCheck (1:1 interviews with target audience)
Intercom
Kampyle
Launchly
LivePerson
Opina (user surveys, open source)
Qwk.io (user surveys)
Redmine
SurveyMonkey (user surveys)
Tender
UserVoice
Zendesk

Technical Contractor Management

Customer Relationship Management

Assistly
BatchBook
Canned Responses and TextExpander or AutoHotKey
Capsule CRM
Clevertim CRM
CloudContacts
Highrise
KarmaCRM
OnePageCRM
PipelineDeals
PipeJump
SugarCRM Community Edition
Tactile CRM
Worketc
Zoho

Social Media Tracking/Marketing

Bluesky Local
HootSuite
PeashootApp
SMHelper
Sysomos
WhosTalkin

Project Management tools

5PM
Asana
BaseCamp
Clarizen
Feng Office - Open Source Project Management System
Flow
GQueues - Collaborative task manager integrated with Google
ManyMoon
Podio
Producteev
Project Bubble
Projectmanager
Project Drive
Teambox
TeamworkPM
TimeTac
Toggl
Trello - Organizes projects into boards
Swiftlight
WizeHive
SCRUM and/or Kan-ban based
- Acunote
- AgileZen
- Mingle
- PivotalTracker
- Kanbantool

Time Management Software / ToDo Lists

ClockMeister
ClockToDo
LogMyTime (German language only)
Mite
Nirvana
OroTimesheet
Time Cockpit - Offline-capable time tracking software
Time Doctor
Time Camp
Worksnaps - Time Tracking Tool for Remote Work
Wunderlist

Customer Support Tools

Collaboration Platform

Comapping.com
Confluence
Huddle.net
OpenGoo
Ohloh
PBworks
UnifiedInbox
Flowdock

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Bugs & Issue Tracking

Methodology
- Index Cards
- Zero Defects Culture
Open Source
- Bugzilla
- Launchpad
- Mantis
- Trac
Commercial
- assembla (Hosted / Saas)
- Bontq (Hosted / Saas)
- Bugrocket (Hosted / SaaS)
- Fogbugz (Download and SaaS)
- Intervals (Hosted / Saas)
- JIRA (Download and SaaS)
- Lighthouse (Hosted / Saas)
- Ontime (Hosted / SaaS )
- Pivotal Tracker (Hosted / SaaS)
- PlayNice.ly (Hosted / Saas)
- plan.io (Hosted / Saas)
- RT : Request Tracker (Download and SaaS)
- SifterApp (Hosted / Saas)
Rails Specific
- Exceptional (Rails-specific)
- Airbrake Bug Tracker (Rails-specific)
- Redmine

Test- and Behavior-Driven Development

Bamboo
CruiseControl.rb
Cucumber
Hudson
Selenium
Sauce Labs
TestingBot
Testjour
UserTesting
99tests

Continuous Integration – Continuous Delivery

Deployment Pipeline
Jenkins
ThoughtWork’s Go

Cloud Infrastructure

Engine Yard
Flexiscale
Cloud Provider API (portability between providers)
- Apache Libcloud
- JClouds

Code Hosting and Version Control

Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…)
assembla (svn, git, mercurial + trac)
bitbucket
Clinker – Software Development Ecosystem
(svn, nexus, sonar, trac, redmine, jenkins, alfresco)
CloudForge (Formerly CVSDude/Codesion)
(svn, git, cvs, trac, bugzilla, TeamForge, DAV)
Codebase (hosted git/svn/hg, ticketing, wiki, etc.)
code spaces (svn)
github (git only)
Indefero (git/svn/hg, ticketing, etc.)
launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects)
Patch-tag (Darcs)
ProjectLocker
Unfuddle (hosted svn/git, ticketing, etc.)
Versionshelf (svn, mercurial)

Browser Compatibility / Cross-Browser Testing tools

BrowserLab
BrowserShots
BrowserStack
CrossBrowserTesting
Firebug
Sauce Scout
Spoon
Testling

Performance

Server Monitoring
- Appfirst
- BlameStella
- Dotcom-Monitor
- Google Page Speed
- Loggly (hosted logging analysis)
- Munin
- Nagios (open source)
- New Relic (Rails-specific)
- Panopta
- Pingdom (up/down alerts)
- Server Density
- ServerMojo
- WebPagetest (load time analysis from US/NZ)
Tools
- Fnord (resources hosting)
- Gatling (resources hosting)
- Jasob
- JS/CSS Compression Using YUI Compressor
- kHTTPd (resources hosting)
- memcached
- mod_perlite (Perl)
- PHP-FPM (patch for php4/5 to improve FastCGI SAPI usage)
- pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL)
- UberTags (Asynchronous code snippet loader & manager)
- Varnish Cache (reverse proxy)
- WAPT ( load & stress testing tool for websites, web-based apps)
- YSlow (performance checklist)

Mockups/Wireframes/UX Prototypes

Axure - Rapid wireframe and prototyping tool
Balsamiq
Cacoo
HotGloo - Interactive Wireframing w/team
Invision
JustInMind
Keynotopia - Keynote templates
Lucid Chart
Mockingbird - wireframes-as-a-service
QMockup
Upstage App - Pitch and share mobile (iOS) mockups
UXpin

Search

ElasticSearch
Google Custom Search Engine
Lucene
Quintura
Riak
Solr
Sphinx
Xapian

Forms

Analytics

ActiveInsight
Bime SAAS Analytics
Builtwith
Chartbeat
ClickHeat
Clicky
Crazy Egg
GoSquared
Google Analytics
Hitsniffer
KISSmetrics
MixPanel
Optimizely
Piwik
Quantcast
Rifgraf
Site Pulse
StaTools
SurCentro
Totango
WebsiteGrader

Login System

Clickpass
RPX

Servers / VPS / Hosting

Engine Yard
Heroku
Linode
NearlyFreeSpeech
Hetzner

Managing APIs

3scale
Apigee
Mashery

Web frameworks

10Duke SDK (Java)
cakePHP (PHP)
Code Igniter (PHP)
dancer (Perl)
Django (Python)
Drupal (PHP)
Kohana (PHP)
Play! (Java)
Rails (Ruby)
StaticMatic
Stripes (Java)
Symfony (PHP)
web.py (Python)
WordPress (PHP)
Zend Framework (PHP)
HTML 5 / Cross Platform
- Appcelerator
- mobl
- PhoneGap

Databases

(MySQL and Oracle databases on AWS)
Drizzle (Lightweight MySQL fork)
MongoDB (nosql)
MySQL (OpenSource)
PostgreSQL (OpenSource)
quickbase
Riak (open source; Apache 2.0)
Swordfish
Xeround (Database-as-a-Service)

Sharing & storing files

Box.net
DocDep
Dropbox
MediaFire
Sendoid
YouSendIt
Ge.tt
Engyte
Wetransfer

iPhone/iPad Development

AppAnnie - Download analytics: reviews, stats, and ratings from stores in all countries
Content - update content on mobile apps without coding
Contentful - content management for apps
Switch – toggle live mobile app features
TestFlight - adhoc builds / manage beta testers

CDNs