LeanBlog.org Technology Stack

1ShoppingCart is an online store software to build a  secure eCommerce storefront.

Needle identifies online customers who need help and matches them with certified advocates who have first-hand knowledge of the product.

WooCommerce is an eCommerce plugin for Wordpress

Anchor by Spotify is a podcast creation tool where podcasters are able to mark select episodes as subscriber-only content, then publish them to Spotify and other platforms.

Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that ensure fast delivery of Internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, and images.

Gravity Forms for WordPress is a full featured contact form plugin that features a drag and drop interface, advanced notification routing.

KingSumo is a WordPress plugin that enables users to grow their email list through viral giveaways.

Libsyn is an online podcast hosting platform that enables its users to share podcasts.

PodBean offers solutions for podcast publishing, promoting and advertising.

Tumblr, a microblogging platform, enables companies and users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

WPBakery Page Builder is a page builder plugin for WordPress which allows you to create stunning website content.

ASP.net is an open source framework for building web applications and services with .NET and C#.

A framework for creating web applications.

Gravatar is a service for providing globally unique avatars and was created by Tom Preston-Werner. It is owned by Automattic, having integrated it into their WordPress.com blogging platform.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

Nginx is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Polyfill as-a-service detects and returns a JavaScript bundle of polyfills based on the current browser using the User-Agent.

Cloudflare mitigates threats from website scraping to application level attacks e.g. SQL Injection and DDOS Protection without any additional hardware.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed by Google to establish that a computer user is human.

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added.

Contact Form 7 is a tool to manage multiple contact forms.

Dropbox is an off-site server for file syncing, storage and sharing which allows users to save & share files of any format & access them anywhere, on any device.

G Suite is a suite of apps from Google which offers a number of tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues, store files, and manage data.

Scribd is a digital library where people can publish, discover, and read books and documents of all kinds on the web or any mobile device.

FastMail delivers security, privacy and reliability for your email, calendars and contacts.

Glassdoor is a jobs and career marketplace.

Google Analytics allows users to measure sales & conversions, plus gain fresh insights into how visitors use sites, & how they arrived on site.

Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google, to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another.

StatCounter is a web traffic analysis tool.

iubenda helps generating and managing privacy & cookie policies and secure cookie consent. iubenda also provides functional GPDR tools.

Online fundraising platform for Nonprofits.

Stripe is an online payment processing tool for internet businesses. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to their bank account. Meticulously designed APIs and functionality help users create the best possible product for their users.

Stripe Connect provides a powerful API and other tools needed to accept payments, as well as onboard, verify, and pay sellers and service providers. Users can tailor integration in various ways.

Needle, Inc. provides real time expert shopping assistance services for e-commerce websites. The company offers Advocate, Advocate Plus, and Advocate Premium. It operates a chat and voice communications platform that enables experts and product owners to engage online shoppers and raise conversion and net promoter scores. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Bluffdale, Utah.

Zoom is a scalable, cloud based video conferencing & web conferencing platform enabling online meetings, webinars, file sharing, group messaging and more.