Nice writeup. We've been using Streak to manage our sales process and we're pretty happy with it - by putting the CRM in email (rather than the other way 'round) it is much, much closer to the "natural" way we work.
I'm consistently surprised that Google App Engine doesn't get more pickup among the HN community. No, it's not perfect, but it lets you build and scale a system with almost zero attention to ops. Lockin? Most startups fail because they never achieve product/market fit, not because they are unhappy with their hosting provider. Less ops means more time making features.
I'm consistently surprised that Google App Engine doesn't get more pickup among the HN community. No, it's not perfect, but it lets you build and scale a system with almost zero attention to ops. Lockin? Most startups fail because they never achieve product/market fit, not because they are unhappy with their hosting provider. Less ops means more time making features.