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Tools We Use

There are lots of tools and platforms that we use to get our work done. The following living list is our attempt at capturing what we are using right now.

Used by Most Everyone

Slack

For team chat. And sharing cat videos.

Google Mail

Our email platform.

Google Calendar

Our calendar platform.

Google Drive (Documents, Sheets, Slides, etc...)

For composition of and group collaboration on written materials.

Google Hangouts

For group video calls. When you create a new meeting in Google calendar, a video Hangout will be automatically created.

GitHub

Where we maintain some of our git-based work. Also, see Phabricator, below.

Passpack

For password storage. Please create your own Passpack account and connect with the main organization account. Any time you create an account relevant to our work, please share the password with the organization on Passpack.

Used Mostly by Our Delivery Teams

Phabricator

The engineering team's preferred software development platform.

AirTable

Great for organizing lots of data collaborative when a spreadsheet just won't cut it.

Workflowy

For research management and collaboration.

Wordpress

For maintaining our organization's web site.

Rollbar

Our exception monitoring and logging platform.

CircleCI

Our automated testing and deployment platform.

Linode

One of our cloud service providers.

Amazon Web Services

Another one of our cloud service providers.

Google Cloud Platform

Yet another cloud service provider.

Twilio

Our cloud service provider of telephony stuff.

GoDaddy

Domain registration.

Namecheap

Domain registration.

SendGrid

Outgoing email management.

Used Mostly by Our Management and Operations Team

Flow

For management and operations task herding, including assignment and monitoring. Also available delivery teams for product/project management purposes.

Affinity

Affinity is used as a place to store contacts, pending deals, and record communication for fundraising purposes.

Harvest

At present, only used for invoice generation.

Expensify

How we organize our expense documentation and generate reimbursement requests.

Mailchimp

Our email campaign platform.

Splash

For sending out and tracking invitations to events.

Doodle

For scheduling big meetings.

UberConference

For group phone calls.

Medium

For writing blog posts and making great publications.