Must have apps for startups

New Delhi: Apps are meant to reduce your daily grind, overloaded with unnecessary manual tasks which can otherwise be automated. The whole idea of being lean and agile comes from streamlining and automating what can be.

From streamlining your schedules till distributing tasks to your team members, there are a plethora of platform agnostic apps that helps you run your daily business activities hassle free.

 

Producteev

Enhance your social business with Producteev from Jive. Producteev is world’s largest social task management solution every business is turning to for their teams.

Collaborate and coordinate with your team, prepare projects, assign them and get them done easily and faster- whether you are working on your desktop or Mac Os, iPhone or android. Producteev also doesn’t mind pinging you in your inbox!

 

HipChat

Sharing ideas, codes and files within team members is now an awesome experience with HipChat. You can chat with your entire department in “Rooms” or choose to have a “one-to-one chat” with any of your co-workers at anytime. You can include clients or third parties even in chat, and have full control on what they see!

If you think you have missed out any part of the conversation because you were away, then no worries – HipChat saves the entire conversation and lets you pick up from wherever you left.

 

SCORE

As a start-up founder, one must always have a mentor, a veteran, to help you do the right thing. It is the suggested best practice for a startup founder.

SCORE provides you this, wherein a mentor is assigned who helps you to create your business model, decide the marketing strategy, test the product idea etc. And all of this is just for free. Nothing can beat the advice of a real mentor but this is a good reference.

 

SurveyMonkey

Many times you will need to conduct online surveys, just to test or improve your new product idea or to get feedback about your products and services.

SurveyMonkey is an online tool which is perfectly made for it. It allows you to create your questionnaire with single selection and multi-selection answer choices. It also allows you to select the design for the survey. This tool provides various statistics about the survey.

 

Zendesk

If a business targets for excellent customer service then Zendesk is one app that’s doing wonders in the entrepreneurial world. It is vital to understand what your customers need and like everything in this world, each person has a varied requirement.

In such a scenario, you need to keep a check where you are standing in comparison to all your competitors. Zendesk helps you do all these and more!

 

Insightly

A popular Google apps CRM and Project Management package, Insightly tracks projects, opportunities, leads and proposals. It contains a comprehensive history of client interaction, and has a centrally shared contact list. Small Businesses find it easy to use.

Insightly gets easily integrated with your Gmail account. It also includes SSL security feature that is vital to businesses.

 

Buffer

Businesses are always trying to improve their social presence, and what better way than Buffer app. You just put up your best articles, share images and videos, and let Buffer do all the magic- it will auto-magically keep posting for you throughout the day.

Keep your presence felt in all networking platforms at one go – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or App.net and also stay updated about the analytics of your posts. Social sharing is now smart with Buffer!

 

Dropbox

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your Android device, and even the Dropbox website!

With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.