Oleg Podsechin

"Any UI elements in particular that make it seem like that? I was planning on turning the screenshot image into a video which shows what you get once you sign up - would that help?" - Oleg Podsechin

"Awesome, thank you!" - Oleg Podsechin

"It works well for some like Gmail (https://starthq.com/apps...) but not others, you're right. Will add a link, thanks again for pointing that out. To be honest I'm quite surprised nobody brought this up sooner! The tag line "find the right app for the job" is vague, agreed. It should probably just say something like "StartHQ is a business web app directory". Thing is though that it's not just that. In fact the directory is an inbound marketing channel for the service you get once you sign up - the web app launcher and directory of apps in use within your company." - Oleg Podsechin

"Thanks for taking the time to reply! Alternatives are determined automatically based on category and matching keywords. There is also the ability to override them manually, but I haven't had the time to do it for more than 20-30 apps. I hope that in the future the app developers will sign up and set the alternatives themselves (e.g. if I say my app X is an alternative to Y, then X will appear in Y's alternatives list). The screenshot is the link to the app. How should it be more prominent? Perhaps a URL next to the app name? About the lack of information: the info listed on the on the app profile pages is what I found users were most interested in based on a survey I ran with 50 or so responses. The findings are here: http://www.quora.com/Oleg-Po... What info do you need and think I should add? PS. Developers can actually write extractors that add more info to the app profile pages, see here: https://github.com/starthq..." - Oleg Podsechin

"The Zoho suite is worth checking out: https://starthq.com/apps..." - Oleg Podsechin

"That's exactly what I'm betting on with my startup (https://starthq.com). Question is: what will be the main problems sysadmins turned vendor managers face?" - Oleg Podsechin

"There's also https://starthq.com where SaaS startups can promote themselves." - Oleg Podsechin

"I've been a long time fan of Clicky and we use it at StartHQ, even though it does cost a bit and getting them to respond to support queries can take a while, they've come through in the end. That being said, the new Google Analytics is quite interesting and seems to have most of the features I need, like real time. The one thing it doesn't seem to have is displaying the aggregate data for the current day. PS. If these 9 tools aren't enough, here are a few more options: https://starthq.com/apps/?cate..." - Oleg Podsechin

"Yeah, I don't see what they are playing at. It's not like there aren't plenty of Reader alternatives for people to turn to: https://starthq.com/apps/?q=re..." - Oleg Podsechin

"Here's the full list of contenders: https://starthq.com/apps/?q=re..." - Oleg Podsechin

"Here is a list of all browser based RSS readers: https://starthq.com/apps/?q=re..." - Oleg Podsechin

"AOL Reader and Feedly aren't the only Google Reader alternatives, here are a few more: https://starthq.com/apps/?q=re..." - Oleg Podsechin

"If you're still looking for Reader alternatives, check out https://starthq.com/apps/?q=re..." - Oleg Podsechin

"Hi Clement, great summary of the problems and opportunities! After running a survey with 80+ respondents, talking to a number IT managers and running a SaaS workshop, we've identified exactly the same challenges and are now working to address them one at a time, starting with discovery and management at https://starthq.com" - Oleg Podsechin

"Thanks, mechanical turk is a good idea! I could email you the summary of the findings if you DM me your email via Twitter (I just followed you), but we really should do a blog post about it. The actual survey was very simple, we just collected two answers: "Does your organization make effective use of web apps? What are the biggest challenges?" and "What are the criteria you use for choosing a web app?"" - Oleg Podsechin

"A survey we ran at https://starthq.com confirms the points you bring up. We are looking to add pricing and trial duration info to our SaaS directory, but I was wondering: what does everyone think would be the best way to display this information & how should we go about collecting this data? When it comes to displaying the info, I was thinking of using two sets of tags, one for the pricing model, i.e. "Free", "Freemium" or "Trial" and the other for the starting price per month once you do start paying: "<$5", "<$10", "<$20" etc. perhaps with an option to say that you pay per use such as when sending transaction emails or infrastructure. As for collecting the data: the only thing I can think of is that we either do it ourselves, which would be time consuming for the 700+ apps we've got in the directory, or get the SaaS providers to register and do it themselves. Perhaps there's some way to automate this or crowd source it, but I can't seem to think of anything sensible." - Oleg Podsechin

"There's a lively discussion on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/it..." - Oleg Podsechin

"Direct link: https://starthq.com" - Oleg Podsechin

"You could run the existing Narwhal code on Node.js using Common Node: http://olegp.github.com/common... The library implements most CommonJS proposals on top of Node.js using node-fibers making it possible to run RingoJS and Narwhal code on Node as is. I'm using it in production on https://starthq.com/." - Oleg Podsechin

"There's MCMS: https://github.com/olegp/mcms" - Oleg Podsechin

"Nice write-up Alex! It's awesome that fibers now works on Windows and is so much easier to install. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that common-node worked on Windows in embedded mode out of the box. I still need to do some work to ensure that the executable ("bin" in package.json) works across all platforms. Perhaps my findings could form the basis for the next post on the topic." - Oleg Podsechin

"I've been thinking about re-implementing this DHT implementation I wrote in Java 10 years ago in Node: https://github.com/olegp... Is this something others would find useful?" - Oleg Podsechin

"https://github.com/olegp/mcms" - Oleg Podsechin