Jaret Manuel
Clarification: This is a Startup Hack resource not a “I want to hack into some bank, etc” page. The following is a collection based on luck, experience, and/or countless hours of research on how to approach an understanding of some of these topics. Please notify me if you notice broken links – my intent is to provide value & quality, and improvements/suggestions are most welcome.
Apple Dev
Book: Programming Cocoa for Mac OS X
Books
Amazon.com Wishlist – My LinkedIN profile has the books I have read to date.
Designing with Web Standards Jeffrey @Zeldman lays it out nicely in this book. A recommended read by many.
HTML & CSS Web Standards An amazing first beginner book for HTML/CSS.
C
Book: C Programming Language: (Great precursor if you want to really go deep with Cocoa framwork (Objective-C))
Code
Google University: HTML, CSS, & Javascript
Colour (Canadian Spelling)
Community
CSS
Gridulator Free Pixel Grid tool
Database
Design
ReWork , Getting Real, & Defensive Design written wisdom from 37Signals.
5By5 Weekly videos you will not want to miss.
Editors
Coda (Mac) One Window Web Development
Kod Mac OS X (Free)
Rubular Ruby Expression Tester & Editor
Event Planning
Fonts
Web Typography ebook
HTML
Cheatsheets PHP, CMS, MySql, HTML5, CSS
Web Developer by @chrisperderick
JS Node Intro
Lean Startup
Lean Startup 101 by @EriceRies
Legal
Startup Cheat Sheet by @StartUpLawyer
LISP
On Lisp via Paul Graham
Logo
Marketing
Inbound Marketing by Hubspot.
Mobile
iOS Design then code
Sencha Mobile App Framework
Mockup
iMockups Awesome ipad Mockup tool
Balsamiq Awesome Mockup tool
Draft for iPad by 37signals
Pen & Paper
News
Hacker News, Hacker News Daily & Hacker Monthly
Platform
Heroku Hosted Application Platform
Pow (Mac OS X)
Phone
Twilio Open Source PBX
Grasshopper Phone Services
Photo Editor
PHP
Python
How to think like a computer scientist
Ruby & Rails
How to become a successful Rubyist
Learn to Program Great Beginner Book
Ruby on Rails Tutorial Vanguard
Bitnami Ruby Stack
Deploy Rails App to EC2 No idea how well this works.
Services
37Signals Suite of CRM, Project management, and information sharing
Basecamp Project management tool
Bubbl.us Brainstorming made simple
BuzzData Open Source Data by @peteforde
Cloudomatic All your Web App Logins under One Roof
Dropbox File Sharing Simplified
Divvy This screen spilt tool rocks (Mac).
Formspring Contact forms, Surveys, and “Ask Me Anything” box.
Flowtown You know their email. Learn the Social Tools linked to them.
Get Satisfaction Customer Feedback by @monstro
Gist Know your contacts even better. Super easy tool.
Google Apps Up to 50 Emails free using your custom domain.
Instapaper Save now, Read Later.
Magcloud create your own magazine.
Ping-o-Matic notify search engines of your blog updates.
Rapportive Rich profiles right inside Gmail by @RahulVohra. Awesome!
Salesforce Cloud based CRM
Solve360 Another cool CRM worth checking out
Shopify Ecommerce made simple
ToodleDo & Remember the Milk Task management refined.
Tungle Make your calendar (on your terms) public.
Vimeo Video hosting tool.
Weebly For those who are not web designers, and want an easy to use DIY web site. A lazy hacker’s dream.
Whiteyboard Inexpensive Whiteboard Terrible experience. Might be ok in USA but a complete run around here in Canada. Disappointed.
Writeboard Document collaboration
Zoho Cloud based CRM & productivity suite
Social Code
GitHub Amazing.
Social Media
eBooks Available to download via DropBox. Several books.
Sinatra
Unix
Unix & Linux Beginner’s Guide
Travel
Hipmunk Genius!
Kayak Tell it your budget, it tells you where on the world map you can fly at that given time.
UI (User Interface)
User Interface Design Framework Toolkit Thanks @Zeldman
Video
OnTwik Looks like an awesome tutorial video site.
Web Accessibility & Usability
Usability.Gov Research-Based
Web Analytics
Beginner’s Guide to A/B Testing by @kissmetrics
Visual Website Optimizer by @Wingify : World’s Easiest A/B Testing tool
Website Grader by @Hubspot & @Dharmesh
Website Validation
LaunchList One stop validation checklist for your website. Looks awesome!
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About.Me
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http://twitter.com/kylebragger
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http://ontwik.com/
Awesome, I suggest ontwik.com for videos
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http://www.ChrisNorstrom.com
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http://www.ChrisNorstrom.com
For fonts:
- Dafont.com
- FontSpace.com[Reply]
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May I recommend TextWrangler as an editor?
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jaretmanuel Reply:
June 25th, 2011 at 3:54 pmZach,
Good catch. I use this and forgot about it. Updated.
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Great start.
Would also recommend Podio – http://podio.com – PM, CRM etc. Great alternative to the rest out there.
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jaretmanuel Reply:
June 25th, 2011 at 6:05 pmLooks intereting as I worked for Salesforce.com for 2 years and understand that space. Thanks.
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June 25th, 2011 at 6:08 pmCool. Can you share what you were working on there? Product side or BD or..? I think they don’t get as much praise as they should for bringing ‘cloud computing’ to the mainstream no?
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jaretmanuel Reply:
June 25th, 2011 at 6:30 pmSales. I think they get praise of the over abused “Cloud” talk. Benioff & crew certainly helped drive the B2B on demand computing space for sure. Salesforce is a great company and the kingpin of modern marketing.
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June 25th, 2011 at 6:34 pmOh cool. Yeah definitely, they are definitely quite solid at driving adoption and marketing. I gotta say though, their products face unprecedented competition from startups from all over the globe. Its going to be an interesting 3-5 years for them.
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June 25th, 2011 at 6:47 pmI could not agree more. There are great solutions out there. Benioff has made his money and has been cashing out shares quite frequently from the time they went public. This is public knowledge. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108524/000112760211000142/xslF345X03/form4.xml
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I think the list is pretty good. But, I just wonder, If I will be able to look at all of them in my entire life! I follow KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid), and I feel the collection is just a redundant conglomeration.
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jaretmanuel Reply:
June 25th, 2011 at 6:03 pmSage & agreeable point, however when you go to Amazon do you look at everything they sell? I have no intentions of learning Python for example but I posted it as I was researching it. Different people choose various paths. These are merely resources that one can resort to should they choose. I did think about simplifying but who knows which one might come in handy down the road. It is a dynamic list for certain. Thanks.
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jaretmanuel Reply:
July 2nd, 2010 at 7:24 pm
Thanks for sharing. Awesome suggestion.
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