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Recent Tech Decisions

1373 points

Following

101

78

Slack integration

58

50

Super simple to schedule tweets

49

No html open/close tags

38

Easier to write than ERB

35

Forces clean and readable code

27

23

Lightweight alternative to Photoshop

23

Javascript plugins

19

Not much community activity

15

Easy to understand

15

Drag and drop attachments

15

14

Integrated with G Suite

13

Relatively slow product/feature release cadence

12

12

Every site uses the defaults

12

Can be distracting depending on how you use it

12

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Instant notifications

11

11

Great mobile app

11

10

GitHub integration

10

Super expensive

9

Grid system break points aren't ideal

9

Quality isn't great

9

API scoping could be better

9

8

Hate how sharing your screen defaults to Full Screen

8

In-meeting chat is pretty good

8

Made by ember.js and rails core team members

8

Mandrill integration

8

7

Permissions take some time to get right

7

7

Easy to share meeting links/invites

7

Recognizes GitHub commit links

7

Html template editor

7

Works with sendgrid/mandrill/mailgun

7

Great analytics

7

Search commit messages

7

Simpler than Pingdom

7

7

GitHub integration

6

Takes time/work to organize buckets & folders properly

6

Cloud recordings for meetings

6

6

See full user sessions

6

Requires some management for large teams

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6

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Easy to setup and use

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6

High learning curve when compared to PaaS

6

You can use it for anything related to graphics

6

Visualizations aren't very helpful

5

Really high CPU utilization during video/screenshare

5

Organization via web ui sucks

5

5

Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

4

Great mobile app

4

Fetching is slow sometimes

4

Very light native integrations

4

Shows you repeat db queries

4

Weekly analytics report email

4

Ability to create templates

4

4

4

Great documentation

4

Playback console errors as they happen

4

"Skip inactivity" during playback

4

Speed up playback

4

Starting to get pricey

4

4

3

Not always reliable

3

No concept of velocity or points

3

More reliable than the other Redis add-ons

3

Easily see per-commit coverage in GitHub

3

Virtual backgrounds

3

3

Make sample API calls inside the docs

3

Birthday notifications are annoying

3

Great for production use

3

Widget stays out of your way

3

Re-buffer posts

3

Embedded signup forms

3

3

Ability to link documents

3

Embed media in-line

3

No configuration required

3

Easy A/B testing

3

3

3

3

Supports multi-state benefits

3

Syncing with other payroll services

3

Easy integration through Segment

3

Ui could use some polishing

3

Not a whole lot of flexibility

3

3

Extremely reliable

3

Super expensive once you're past the free plan

2

Super expensive

2

UI could use some work

2

Chrome extension is great to easily create meetings

2

The native calendar is buggy

2

Doesn't handle switching audio sources well

2

2

Steep learning curve

2

2

2

Finding/adding people isn't easy

2

Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific

2

2

Wiki-style documents

2

Table of contents

2

2

Sync to Dropbox

2

2

Filter and segment users

2

Recommendations

2

2

Slick transitions between questions

2

2

2

Search/query with regex

2

Tolerable UI (default Bootstrap)

2

2

Annual pricing option

2

Super simple to get started

2

2

Custom branding

2

2

2

2

2

2

Great customer support

2

2

Super simple to install

2

Ability to set threshold for # of responses

2

User event stream

2

Segment users based on actions

2

Personal vs company account is confusing

2

2

A little too flexible

2

Very hard to build out funnels

2

Feedback form on error pages

2

Can't seem to change the number of total points

2

UI is incredibly complicated

2

Good luck changing domains

2

Great for coordinating across timezones

2

2

Different meeting URLs

2

Chart edits get their own URLs

2

Great for caching HTML

2

Horrible for slide presentations

2

Free for up to 10M user actions per month

1

If you're using it via Segment, it's all or nothing

1

1

Auto-added to G Cal invites

1

Full MVC profile

1

Stripe Integration

1

Great replacement for Rapportive

1

Hover over email addresses anywhere

1

1

Offered by Redis Labs

1

1

Search and filtering

1

Export data to CSV

1

1

Allows presenter to share mouse control

1

Quick setup for presenter

1

No installation for viewers

1

Easy integration with CloudFront

1

Web UI for uploading files

1

Dashboard w/live polling

1

Web editor for templates

1

1

Conversion tracking

1

Weekly email w/performance trends

1

1

1

Great UI/dashboard

1

Easy integration

1

Free company logo API

1

Prospector API is amazing

1

Beautiful documentation

1

Great changelogs and onsite notifications

1

Detailed logs for every API request made

1

1

1

Schedule tweets via API

1

Uses standard docs

1

GitHub integration, status inline in PRs

1

Crystal clear audio quality

1

1

Controlling presenter's screen is the default behavior

1

1

1

1

Ability to customize color theme

1

Views and conversion analytics

1

Export results to CSV

1

1

Set rules for when survey should appear on page

1

Specify which users to show surveys to

1

SendGrid integration for opens/clicks

1

See user events in one stream

1

Clearbit integration

1

1

Payroll reminder emails

1

Google Calendar integration

1

Really hard to pull analytics out via api

1

Expensive once you hit healthy traffic

1

Complains about small stylistic decisions

1

1

No coding necessary

1

Limitations with integration-specific configurations

1

Client-side events are separated from server-side

1

Not clear which events/options are integration-specific

1

Invalidations take so long

1

Only really good for .io domains

1

Super expensive

1

Charged based on subscribers as opposed to emails sent

1

Hard to set up alerts properly

1

Conversions don't quite seem to work

1

Comparing different timeframes is difficult

1

GitHub org / team integration is a little too tight

1

1

We'll never get through all the sessions recorded

1

Doesn't integrate with our exception monitoring

1

Time spent on page isn't accurate out of the box

1

Re-buffering a lot of tweets is pretty painful

1

Mobile app could use some work

1

More expensive than the other options

1

Not easy to customize

1

Wish users could auth with our app instead of UserVoice

1

Hard to use custom code

1

Google Calendar integration

1

Ability to block off times

1

Behavioral cohorts

1

1

Engagement Matrix is super helpful

1

1

Event streams for individual users