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The one thing that could make this more useful is to have some way of indicating people's happiness with various tools. Maybe just a (+x/-y) after each tool link. If you like it, you can increment x; if you don't, you can increment y. That way, one can get a sense of how much other startup tool users like each tool.

aespinoza2• 15 years ago

I agree... I think that is a great idea.

iSimone• 15 years ago

I have informed the curators/initiators of these comments, so hopefully some of the suggestions will be picked up.

croddin• 15 years ago

I would add Heroku

jsherer• 15 years ago

"Curated" had me expecting a much smaller and focused list of recommended startup tools. Hope to see something like that in the future.

mrb• 15 years ago

The "zero defects culture" they promote is fixing bugs as soon as you find them; it should not be confused with the zero defects mentality which is "widely acknowledged to be ineffective in both military and corporate life".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-defects_mentality

Detrus• 15 years ago

Missed Redis in databases

jewgonewild2• 15 years ago

I couldn't agree more. Maybe not as a main store, but definitely as a general swiss army knife utility for a web app's backend.

alexwolfe• 15 years ago

Great list, thanks.

bprater• 15 years ago

Curation usually implies more than bookmarking a bunch of sites. I see no additional data, no opinions, no insight. This is hardly useful to me -- and I would love a well-curated list like this.

DanielRibeiro• 15 years ago

This is why I like Steven Blank's list: http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/

It gives a small, straight note on the item.

viscanti• 15 years ago

I agree. A curated list would whittle the list down to a much more manageable size. Most of the things listed are either very obvious (i.e. if you don't know what Ruby on Rails is before reading that list, you're not likely to find any value from reading it from among the list of other frameworks, or even know why you'd want to pick a Ruby exclusive option) or are unnecessary for startups.

I'm sure it took a long time to bookmark all those pages, but the time would have been better spent picking a handful of useful resources and explaining why they are useful.

thinkcomp• 15 years ago

Our old accounting system, Exponent, is on the list, but Exponent has been merged into FaceCash. Even though we're still fighting California about the payment aspects of FaceCash, all of the accounting features for businesses still work. You're welcome to use them for free for your company if you'd like.

kuviaq• 15 years ago

Scout should also be added to this list, great server monitoring/graphing/alerting platform!

http://www.scoutapp.com/

(Just a customer, don't work there)

jewgonewild2• 15 years ago

I would add syncpad to the list of collaboration tools (http://mysyncpad.com)

istvanp• 15 years ago

Also missing from the list: Trello, a team collaboration / project management software. It's so free form that it can be less or more than that. http://www.trello.com

jabo• 15 years ago

Is there a reason why Rackspace isn't featured under Servers?

edash• 15 years ago

Wistia should be added for video: http://wistia.com/

Intercom should be added for Feedback and FAQ: http://www.intercom.io/

HootSuite for social media tracking / monitoring: http://hootsuite.com/

nphase• 15 years ago

Slicehost? This list is curated? [1]

1: http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2011/9/23/basics-of-the-sl...

johnx123-up• 15 years ago

My favorite CSSilize.com is missing for PSD to XHTML conversion and PMS.

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