Devs' Launch Checklist

• Domain name registered and pointed
• Web server up and running
• Source control in place
• CSS/Page Design
• Deployment
• Monetization integration
• Analytics
• Logging
• Authentication
• Blog
• Backup?

Resources

• http://opendesigns.org - Your project should feel "real" as soon as possible. If your startup team doesn't have a designer up to speed yet, try one of these lovely designs. Don't take out the designer's credit link, though!
• http://aws.amazon.com/ Amazon Web Services - Real root on a demand-expandable virtualized servers, cheap storage, billing, physical goods fulfillment, human-powered piecework.
• http://www.basecamphq.com/ BaseCamp - All these assets, documents, and discussion have to go someplace.
• http://facebook.com Facebook and http://twitter.com Twitter - Capture the little bits of value you're creating while they happen.

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• http://docs.google.com Google Docs - Easy sharing trumps features.
• http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ Google AJAX APIs - Google hosts and serves the more popular Javascript libraries from their CDN. Free to you, good for your users, one more thing not to worry about.
• http://code.google.com/appengine/ Google AppEngine - Super-lightweight scalable web development and deployment framework. Currently Python-only.
• http://codreview.appspot.com - Guido Van Rossum's Reitveld, a port of the Google "Mondrian" code review tool to appengine.
• http://www.google.com/analytics/ Google Analytics - Takes about a minute to integrate with your site and gives real feedback right away.