Ask HN: Which web apps help you manage your startup?

3 points by iaskwhy 16y ago ↗ HN

I'm starting out with something I came up with but I never really needed to use many web apps to manage a project. My experience led me to the Google apps (Gmail, Analytics, Adsense), Basecamp, GitHub and Tick.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more I'm missing so what apps do you use to manage your company?

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justlearning 16y ago ↗

you may be disappointed if you don't enough responses. Here is why:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656147

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545229

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184105

This comes up every now and then. IMHO, there's a treasure chest waiting for you in the archive. All you need is the search (searchyc or google site:hn)

iaskwhy 16y ago ↗

Thanks, this is pretty much what I wanted!

And sorry for not searching more deeply.

pedoh 16y ago ↗

It's never too early to think about monitoring and metrics. In my opinion you should collect metrics on everything you can think of:

1) How long does it take for my page to load? 2) How long is this database query taking? 3) How long does this API call take? 4) How much storage am I using?

et cetera. Your metrics should give you keen insight into common system metrics as well as application level metrics. Your metrics should show you your trends and tell you when you need to add capacity and / or improve performance.

Cloudkick (http://cloudkick.com) is doing (among other things) a lot to make not only metrics collection but monitoring simple. I'd check them out.