Curation usually implies more than bookmarking a bunch of sites. I see no additional data, no opinions, no insight. This is hardly useful to me -- and I would love a well-curated list like this.
I agree. A curated list would whittle the list down to a much more manageable size. Most of the things listed are either very obvious (i.e. if you don't know what Ruby on Rails is before reading that list, you're not likely to find any value from reading it from among the list of other frameworks, or even know why you'd want to pick a Ruby exclusive option) or are unnecessary for startups.
I'm sure it took a long time to bookmark all those pages, but the time would have been better spent picking a handful of useful resources and explaining why they are useful.
The "zero defects culture" they promote is fixing bugs as soon as you find them; it should not be confused with the zero defects mentality which is "widely acknowledged to be ineffective in both military and corporate life".
The one thing that could make this more useful is to have some way of indicating people's happiness with various tools. Maybe just a (+x/-y) after each tool link. If you like it, you can increment x; if you don't, you can increment y. That way, one can get a sense of how much other startup tool users like each tool.
Our old accounting system, Exponent, is on the list, but Exponent has been merged into FaceCash. Even though we're still fighting California about the payment aspects of FaceCash, all of the accounting features for businesses still work. You're welcome to use them for free for your company if you'd like.
Also missing from the list: Trello, a team collaboration / project management software. It's so free form that it can be less or more than that.
http://www.trello.com
