Free services every tech entrepreneur needs to know (fullstart.com)

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I like how this post is broken down into specific categories. The most important tools are under "Analyzing and Improving". Obviously I use google analytics but haven't used Visual Website Optimizer. Is it like Optimizely?

padan 12y ago ↗

Yes, it's very much like Optimizely. Here's a good (but old) comparison: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-main-differences-benefits-...

mkuhn 12y ago ↗

When using the two tools I much preferred VWO editor that allowed to setup the tests. Besides that I found the tools to be quite equal.

mjshampine 12y ago ↗

things like crazyegg are good too. you can just use the 30 day trial to test it out.

mkuhn 12y ago ↗

For monitoring the article mentions Pingdom. I have found New Relic's server monitoring [1] to be quite nice as well.

The nice thing is how it integrates with other New Relic monitoring for your app and that it actually is free.

[1] http://newrelic.com/server-monitoring

iterable 12y ago ↗

Great article. Super important everyone knows these services. Steve Blank also has a TON of great free resources on his blog: http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/

FireBeyond 12y ago ↗

Whilst technically true, “at the lowest level”, I find it hard not to take with a pinch of salt any article that describes Heroku as a “free service”.