As a start-up, what was the first SaaS product you paid for?

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Trying to nail down the most valuable SaaS tools used among early-stage start-ups.

Jerry Moyer · Accepted Answer

Easiest way to get all of the basics in one shot.

Jessica Freeman · Answer

Paperform was one of the first products that I was *really* happy to pay for, made it so pain-free to create online forms.

Ashit Vora · Answer

At that time there was no Trello & Asana and we had already tried the trial version of Basecamp and fell in love with its simplicity. We used to call it GroupHub :)

🇺🇸 James Brown · Answer

best all in one for sales and customer support app.

Michel Vermeulen · Answer

It's a quick and easy way to answer customers more efficiently, and it stays with you while the business is growing.

Manasvini Krishna · Answer

To receive payments!

Sheejo George · Answer

I am a part of AeroLeads a bootstrap startup and the first best tools that we have used is NinjaOutreach to connect with blogger and podcaster to drive more traffic in the website.

It worked exceptionally for us!

Robert · Answer

Combines many tools in one - keeps things simple and a lot of things in one place

Nagarjun Palavalli · Answer

Quite possibly the best video conferencing solution. This was an essential tool for our remote team and for sales calls.

Duncan A Forbes · Answer

Brings together natural messaging with users/prospects, plus the ability to automate numerous workflows (Playbooks) via email, target live site visitors/users with actionable and informative content, to using CTA's to easily integrate and run your Playbooks within your Website or App. Reducing the need for numerous forms too.

With a fantastic support team and developer documentation, for extending your customers experiences when using LeadBots, to developing internal tools to increase productivity between your team members.

Great for B2B and B2C. The more creative you are, with how you implement Drift or design your Bots. The sky's the limit.

Olga Milevska · Answer

For sales campaigns, customer support, and lead generation.

Hitsteps · Answer

It was necessary to keep our servers always up to avoid mis calculation of analytics data. Pingmeter provide this for us. Worth all the money and more.

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My first SaaS subscription, I was using it for user onboarding.

Saurabh Yadav · Answer

To create impactful and engaging forms and surveys.

Sujoy Chaudhary · Answer

If you are serving enterprise customers' customers, you cannot take chances with concurrency.

Mitch Smith · Answer

Hubspot was the first SaaS I paid for.

Iván Enríquez · Answer

If your product is for sell at B2B I think it is very useful to automate your prospecting funnel

Eduardo Alvarez · Answer

The best project management platform for G Suite. It's completely integrated and automated. The design is awesome, simpler and cheaper. Workep has everything, different work methodologies (Todolist, Kanban, and Gantt). The Gantt is the most powerful feature, teams, time tracker, etc.

Seema Thakur · Answer

It is one of the best saas product and the first software for which I have spent money on, and was totally worth the price!
It helped me in lead generation and boosted my business growth.
It fetches the email addresses and business phone numbers of prospects in real time, and you can operate it on the top of LinkedIn, Angellist, and so more.

Paul Skah · Answer

Email with the most intuitive interface, the entire office suite, teleconferencing system and Slack replacement.

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You can create surveys, build landing pages and sell using stripe just with a typeform subscription. @levelsio even started makebook.io with a simple typeform survey.

Ankur Gupta · Answer

Because on-web customer/visitor engagement

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It was great for user testing during the early prototyping phase.

Tagggly · Answer

Excellent recurring billing solution

sravya m · Answer

For office chat communication we are using troop messenger it is a great tool for collaborating with employees and easily communicate with people, You can share documents, images, Video calls, Audio calls, etc.. It is one of the best business marketing applications that allow the overseer to monitor the messages to analyze the contribution of members of the organization.

OPENIMOB · Answer

Easy to setup your first website, scalable if your startup succeed and better service than most small hosts.

Matej Kukucka · Answer

Customer Support & Website Analytics must be set BEFORE any online project starts.

Vasil Enchev · Answer

Assign and track tasks and time

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You can create surveys, build landing pages and sell using stripe just with a typeform subscription. @levelsio even started makebook.io with a simple typeform survey.

Jon Maximus · Answer

To setup our business email ids

Abhishek · Answer

Email, Sheets, Calendar, Hangouts. First few things to get started.

Nico Bistolfi · Answer

After Gsuite, which is extremely necessary to receive your emails. I always setup JIRA, Is great to understand what's going on and plan product roadmap.

Yance · Answer

是一个非常有想法的工具，我觉得很棒

Patrik Beskow · Answer

So easy, so good.

Thomas DIDIER · Answer

To visualize and manipulate data to manage operations seamlessly.

AMETRIKA · Answer

Great for tracking progress, motivating teams and setting new goals.

Data that we connected first: ChartMogul, ActiveCampaign, Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Competition monitoring feeds (Google News, RSS feeds etc).

Used in office TV screens

Hans Pagel · Answer

Wanted to add Revolut to this list, as it was the first thing we at https://scrumpy.io paid monthly for. ☺️

1. Stripe
2. Revolut
3. Crisp
4. Sage

Leandro · Answer

Pure collaboration for teams. Gmail, editing docs and spreadsheets together, cloud storage with Drive and more.

Teekay Rezeau-Merah · Answer

Had to raise my productivity levels

Shreyaa Ratra · Answer

Helped me identify the right companies to target so that I can prioritise and put more efforts on those companies and fill my sales pipeline.