Tools for Startups

We launched Domainr in 2008, and in the years since have used a variety of resources to grow it, both as a product and as a business. This directory lists services, tools and reference material that we've used and highly recommend.

Services

• Optimizely — for A/B and multivariate testing
• Heroku — for webapp hosting
• Papertrail — for hosted log management
• New Relic — for hosted performance monitoring
• DNSimple — for DNS management
• iWantMyName — for domain name management
• Github — for source control
• KissMetrics — for funnel monitoring and optimization

Recommended Reading

• Hackers and Painters — Paul Graham
• Founders at Work — Jessica Livingston
• Coders at Work — Peter Seibel
• Let My People Go Surfing — Yvon Chouinard
• The Mythical Man-Month — Fred Brooks
• The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch
• Venture Deals — Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
• The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
• When Genius Failed — Roger Lowenstein
• Moneyball — Michael Lewis
• Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
• In the Plex — Steven Levy
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out — Richard Feynman
• Cradle to Cradle — Willian McDonough