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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.

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.

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.

I think https://stripe.com/ should be added to the list. Not to be confused with the Stripes framework.

Stripe is a payment system for developers.

Other things I use and would add:

Shopify - Storefront

tarsnap - Backup

Rsync.net - Backup

hipchat - Team Collaboration

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

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

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

Very useful, thanks for sharing.

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.

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

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

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/

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.

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

Slicehost? This list is curated? [1]

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

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)

I would add Sailthru for email: https://www.sailthru.com/

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

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

kuler is indeed great for colors; I'd consider adding colorbrewer to this list:

http://colorbrewer2.org/

I would add Heroku

Missed Redis in databases

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.

Great list, thanks.

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