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Free services for Web developers
2008-05-10 11:08:16 by Martynas Jusevičius
I recently noticed, that most services needed to develop, manage, and deploy a website are free, except for hosting perhaps. Version control, project management, bug tracking — all that a developer or a small team might need is online for $0, thanks to some far-sighted providers. Most of the services have completely free accounts with some limitations, others provide free trial. And paying a few backs when you need more space or features does not feel too bad since you have been treated well.
Here is a list I personally use and can recommend (this is not an advertisement on someone's request!):
- Springloops
- Code collaboration for Web developers: SVN hosting, code browser, change reviews, FTP deployment, Basecamp integration
- Basecamp
- Project management, collaboration, and task software: projects, to-dos, milestones, writeboards
- Google Analytics
- Website statistics, visitor tracking
- Feedburner
- RSS statistics and tracking
- Dropbox
- File sharing and synchronization on different platforms
- Tick
- Time tracking
- Yammer
- Internal communication for organizations
- GetSatisfaction
- Customer support
Know more or better? Please let us know :)
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Hi!
Nice post, it would be nice to have a page centralizing all features (and quality) of the various providers :)
little typo: white board not writeboards :)
Other free services
2008-05-10 19:45:58 by Limi
There is another great website which has SVN and Trac hosting for free and you can have as many as you like...
http://www.assembla.com/
+1 for Assembla
Assembla is a great service with project management, version control and bug tracking rolled into one. It might not be as sleek as Basecamp or Springloops but for the price it beats them hands down. Highly recommended!
Thanks
2008-05-12 23:41:28 by Martynas
For the add :)
More free services
For code hosting, I use code.google.com.
For project management, I use Fogbugz On Demand.
Here's the tools I used at home:
http://itscommonsensestupid.blogspot.com/2008/04/programming-tools-i-used-at-home.html
RoR...
2008-05-13 12:18:07 by Tony
heroku.com
Free Ruby on Rails environment
2008-05-13 21:19:26 by John
Another great tool for web developers is Intervals. It does task tracking, time tracking, project management, and more. And it's developed by a web development shop, so it's targeted to web developers.
http://www.myintervals.com/
typos
2008-05-10 19:35:51 by Pierre