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Essential services your startup should use (especially if you’re bootstrapped)

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I just checked out WeddingLovely from your blog post. I got married a few months ago and also did advisory on a premium domain wedding niche startup a few years back so I "get it" - this is on the right track and think the 'wizard as wedding checklist' concept would have been really helpful for us. Really interesting approach. Though the homepage kind of doesn't sell me as a consumer on the value proposition until I clicked through a few features screens

Also I would disagree about running a startup off of Basecamp as the PM tool of choice. Its good for small design agencies but I've rarely seen it used effectively in a startup setting

Yes — I personally use Basecamp due to using it for three years (so, just habit), but I didn't want to recommend it explicitly since you can use Google Drive or similar to do the same thing.)

Oh, and thanks for the comments on WeddingLovely! A v2 is in the works to fix those issues you mentioned. ;)

I wrote this earlier this year - 10 services to consider when starting a SaaS business - http://sahilparikh.com/post/50074249352/10-services-to-consi...

Another friend just mentioned managed hosting (Heroku or VM Farms) as being non-negotiable nowadays. I personally don't have any experience with managed hosting (I use Linode) but that's another service that you could consider!

Thanks for posting this. It wasn't immediately obvious that the header of each section was a link to the service. I kept clicking the images thinking it would take me there.

Regardless, I really like the idea of Briefmetrics. Thanks!

Good point — still not used to using svbtle as a blogging service, I'll try to see what I can do to change the image links.

I know you run Django for your site(s)... How do you handle the blog part? I've been unimpressed with django blog plugins, but maybe I haven't found the right one.

I use Wordpress. It can be a huge PITA and extremely slow, but I'm used to using the (really great) plugins to help with SEO, sharing drafts, social media, writing the posts, etc. I've been rather unimpressed by Django blog plugins as well, so I've been sticking with Wordpress. I do use caching plugins and Cloudflare to hopefully speed it up though.

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