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Recent Tech Decisions

1532 points

Following

108

83

Slack integration

60

50

Super simple to schedule tweets

49

No html open/close tags

39

Easier to write than ERB

36

Forces clean and readable code

27

23

Super expensive

23

Lightweight alternative to Photoshop

23

Javascript plugins

19

Not much community activity

17

Easy to understand

16

Every site uses the defaults

15

Grid system break points aren't ideal

15

Integrated with G Suite

15

Relatively slow product/feature release cadence

15

Drag and drop attachments

15

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Instant notifications

13

12

GitHub integration

12

12

Can be distracting depending on how you use it

11

11

In-meeting chat is pretty good

11

Hate how sharing your screen defaults to Full Screen

11

11

Great mobile app

10

API scoping could be better

10

9

Quality isn't great

8

8

GitHub integration

8

See full user sessions

8

Easy to share meeting links/invites

8

Made by ember.js and rails core team members

8

Mandrill integration

7

Visualizations aren't very helpful

7

You can use it for anything related to graphics

7

Permissions take some time to get right

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

6

6

Fetching is slow sometimes

6

Organization via web ui sucks

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6

Not a whole lot of flexibility

6

Takes time/work to organize buckets & folders properly

6

Cloud recordings for meetings

6

Requires some management for large teams

6

6

6

Easy to setup and use

6

6

High learning curve when compared to PaaS

5

Very hard to build out funnels

5

No concept of velocity or points

5

Speed up playback

5

"Skip inactivity" during playback

5

Playback console errors as they happen

5

Starting to get pricey

5

Great mobile app

5

Really high CPU utilization during video/screenshare

5

5

5

Hard to understand why things in your app are breaking

4

Super expensive once you're past the free plan

4

Different meeting URLs

4

4

Easily see per-commit coverage in GitHub

4

4

4

Feedback form on error pages

4

Doesn't handle switching audio sources well

4

The native calendar is buggy

4

Virtual backgrounds

4

Very light native integrations

4

Shows you repeat db queries

4

Weekly analytics report email

4

Ability to create templates

4

4

Great documentation

3

3

3

UI could use some work

3

Horrible for slide presentations

3

UI is incredibly complicated

3

Segment users based on actions

3

User event stream

3

3

3

More reliable than the other Redis add-ons

3

3

Good luck changing domains

3

Great for caching HTML

3

Personal vs company account is confusing

3

3

Not always reliable

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

Ability to link documents

3

Embed media in-line

3

No configuration required

3

Easy A/B testing

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

Extremely reliable

2

Quick setup for presenter

2

No installation for viewers

2

2

Google Calendar integration

2

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

2

Ability to block off times

2

Not clear which events/options are integration-specific

2

Hard to set up alerts properly

2

Web UI for uploading files

2

Super expensive

2

Event streams for individual users

2

Super expensive

2

Chrome extension is great to easily create meetings

2

Steep learning curve

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

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

Great customer support

2

2

Super simple to install

2

Ability to set threshold for # of responses

2

A little too flexible

2

Can't seem to change the number of total points

2

Great for coordinating across timezones

2

Chart edits get their own URLs

2

Free for up to 10M user actions per month

1

More expensive than the other options

1

Invalidations take so long

1

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

Easy integration with CloudFront

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

Only really good for .io domains

1

Charged based on subscribers as opposed to emails sent

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

We'll never get through all the sessions recorded

1

Doesn't integrate with our exception monitoring

1

Re-buffering a lot of tweets is pretty painful

1

Mobile app could use some work

1

Not easy to customize

1

Wish users could auth with our app instead of UserVoice

1

Hard to use custom code

1

Behavioral cohorts

1

1

Engagement Matrix is super helpful

1