Software & Tools

Communication

• Slack
  • Peer to Peer messaging
  • Group Chat
  • Remote Standup Checkin through Geekbot
  • R2D2 is our bot that helps us with random tasks
  • If deeper talk is happening re: product planning or marketing, think about it and move it to basecamp
• Basecamp
  • Long form communication
  • Epic discussion
  • Non-product scheduling (marketing)

Project Management

• Marketing Schedule in Basecamp
• Pivotal Tracker
  • Prioritized Current Work
  • Unprioritized Inbox

Operations

• Gmail - Tim recommends Airmail for a desktop client
• Google Drive.
  • Tips on using here
  • Spreadsheet & Doc collaboration
  • Document source of truth
• Civic Hall room booking calendar
• Company email distro lists
  • company (everyone)
  • marketing
  • reading - interesting or fun stuff we find that people should read
• Shared calendars
  • Tardis - OOO Calender; vacation, WFH
• Gusto - payroll
• 1Password - Shared & personal secure passwords

Product Support

• Zendesk
  • Agent (Customer support)
  • Website FAQ
• Instabug - Bug reporting

Engineering SaaS

• Buddybuild - App CI
• Scrutinizer - API CI
• Fabric - QA App distribution & crash reporting
• Itunes Connect
• Newrelic - server monitoring

Product Tools

• Sketch - App & Web design
• Xcode - App Dev
• PHPStorm - API dev
• Kaleidoscope - Diff tool
• Paw - Web API Harness
• SequelPro - For your inner DBA