What is the best way to setup "click-to-cloud" instance deployment for a PaaS and what services can do this for you?

Some great suggestions Brandon! And it sounds like you're already using a lot of great insight tools. I'm not totally sure what you are looking for data wise, but what I've found to work in a lot of situations is simply using the Chrome Inspect tool. Essentially; 1. I right click over the object I'm interested in, and then click Inspect. 2. Dig around through the layers and look for anything insightful such as a domain name etc that tips me off to what's powering it (eg Infusionsoft, Mailchimp, plugin etc). The other thing that might help is Firefox's inspect tool since it has 3D which helps you "see" into the code and find things more simply. Hope that's helpful!

It's the chicken or the egg question and in all truth you need both to grow each other. You need to figure out about the minimum level of businesses you need to keep customers coming back and back. Second, you need to offer those business a free trial period, say 3-6 months, so that you have the businesses that will attract the people, but the businesses are not throwing away their money on an empty project, while you are recruiting your people. You also need to market yourself and start early, while you are still setting things up. Get the word out: make youtube videos. Ask other sites to attach a link to your site. Write on blogs. Leave links on blogs (it is a bit of spamming but if the blog owners don't like it, they'll delete the link). Even better if you can do a trade for service with those same blog owners. Be creative and MARKET MARKET MARKET. There's an old Russian saying: not advertising your business is like flirting with a girl across a non-lit room.

Yes. Hopefully you already own these domain names before publishing them like this but here's my 2 cents: Crowdsage.com is pretty solid out of those options. All things being equal a .com is going to give you the edge in terms of credibility and many would argue SEO. it does give you some minor problems that as a stand alone domain it's not clear whether you mean crowds age or "crowd sage" but it's not a bad name. A brand is what you make it. A great name doesn't guarantee success by any measure but it can help you create a stickier brand and make you easier to find. I've developed a process for coming up with names that works pretty well. It's a multi-step brainstorming process and it takes time but I would be happy to share it with you or even brainstorm together over Clarity. Good luck with this. Adrian