Startup Mantra — Each Drop Matters
Hello Everyone.
This is the second official blog post from Lipishala. For past one week our entire team has been pondering over what should be the first post that we should share. And after some sessions we all agreed that the Hello World!!! post from Lipishala should be a knowledge sharing article with the startup community which inspired us to come into the existence.
Every startup goes through this initial phase in its lifetime where it is short of resources in terms of man power, money etc and it needs platforms that can help in solving some use cases which are needed to complete the platform but are not core to the business.
We will be writing about 6 super awesome platforms which made life easy for us at Lipishala and did not cost us a single penny.
- Cloudflare — First in the list is Cloudflare. We use this platform for dns hosting, HTTPS certificate, URL rewriting and caching of static contents for website. It offers many other features for SaaS, API and Website owners with respect to performance, security, reliability and insights.
- ZOHO — Lipishala uses ZOHO for mail service. Its a complete platform with respect to communication and collaboration tool suite and offers 25 emails in free plan
- Freshdesk — Freshdekh is probably one of the most widely used CRM platform in world and they offer a free plan which is good enough for startups to create a robust and transparent ticketing system. They have easy to integrate rest APIs and our developers simply fell in love with them.
- Uptimerobot — Its a ping service which ensures that the owners will be informed if the APIs / Site is down. We picked Uptimerobot because of its simplicity. It hardly took us 15 min in configuring the rules for ping checks. It has what startups need. Nothing more and nothing less.
- Sendgrid — Sendgrid is a platform for sending transactional mails. They provide beautiful APIs which makes the task of sending mails a kids play. The mails are sent real-time and this ensures that your customers have the best experience.
- Trello — Its difficult to have the thought of managing so many threads / ideas / communications via mail only. Collaboration is a tricky business. Rich tools have their own learning curve which don’t suit startups. To us at Lipishala, Trello is just what what we need. A lean and smart way of managing super agile phase of our company.
I want to thank all above companies on behalf of Lipishala and congratulate them and many others for creating such wonderful products for the community.
Before I end this post let me add one of my favorite inspirational quote.
“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” — Amelia Barr
Originally published at blog.lipishala.com on September 6, 2018.

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