Here is a quick rundown of the tools that we use to collaborate and win at efficiency.
- Asana for task management, planning, full replacement for internal email
- Gmail for email
- Google docs for sheets, word, powerpoint (supplemented by MS office for a few computers if you need to collaborate with lawyers etc)
- Slack for real-time chatting, channel for each project
- Expensify - simplify expense receipt filing
- Xero - Web accounting system, that will scale normally up to ~10m of revenue, or maybe more.
- Hosting - heroku - easy to scale, database backend "just works"
- Ruby on Rails as a programming framework, one of the best ways to develop great software quickly (this should be picked by the team, lots of amazing choices for this)
- Database <> Google sheets integration = Heroku Dataclips - a feature of heroku that lets you export data as CSV to google (live feed)
- Bugsnag - automatic error reporting
- New Relic - automatic application performance (what is running fast and slowly)
- Codeship - automaticly test each update to our application, it also automatically deploys the app when we tell it
There might be more than this, but hopefully this covers a lot of the areas to get a team off the ground.