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The SaaS We Use

Here at AnyClip, we have an international team working a million miles an hour. To support this environment, we've been relying on and testing out a variety of hosted apps which help our team collaborate more efficiently and let us focus on maintaining only the technology we're building.

Stuff we use daily:

  • Google Apps: Gmail (for all company email and built-in video chat)
  • Google Apps: Docs (for simple, collaborative modeling of traffic, stats, etc)
  • Google Apps: Sites (for API documentation and feature specs)
  • Basecamp (for task management and communication around implementation)
  • Beanstalk (for Subversion)
  • Lighthouse (for bug tracking)

Apps we're playing around with:

  • ooVoo (Google's video chat is great for 1-to-1 communication, but I love having multiple people on video chat, but not huddled around the same webcam. ooVoo let's us stay at our desks and all take part in a larger conversation).
  • Procaster by Livestream (We've started using Livestream for usability testing. With their Procaster tool, you can stream both a webcam and screencast of what the user is doing. This allows you to watch the user and their movements around you application. It's not what Livestream intended, but we love it.)

So that's the stack of online tools we use. Right now it runs us under $100 a month for everthing listed, which is pretty amazing when you think about everything we don't have to worry about.

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Nate is the Co-Founder and EVP of Product & Technolog for AnyClip. He is also the Organizer of the 13,000 member NY Tech Meetup.
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  • What other apps should we use?
  • I use nearly all of the same apps for the same reasons except for Lighthouse. It was difficult, but getting teams to buy into Pivotal Tracker has been extremely rewarding. It's not the greatest system if you're just using it to do bug tracking, but as a complete project management tool it is fantastic.

    I've also heard that Github was the best app for Subversion, but I haven't had the time to figure out how it works.

    How has your experience using Sites been? I've used it basically as a wiki to better document user stories and chores from pivotal tracker. It feels like kind of a work around and I'm interested to see if there is a product better suited for that type of work.
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