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Ask HN: What products have you used regularly for years?

6 points by neilsharma 10y ago

Websites, apps, SaaS services, or even physical stores. What brands and companies have survived the test of time in your life?

neilsharma 10y ago
1. Unroll.me - Easily unsubscribes to newsletters. I currently have over 500 unsubscribed newsletters through them, and sign on every 2-3 weeks to keep it updated 2. Adblockers - I cannot use the internet without them. I actually use two -- adguard and ublock 3. Yelp - Cause knowing where to eat is a perpetual need 4. Video Speed Controller - Chrome Extension that speeds up all html5 videos. Youtube already supports this, but now I can speed up Netflix, Amazon Prime, Vimeo, etc 5. Venmo -- still the best way of paying friends 6. MightyText -- because typing on phones is slow 7. Google Drive, because enough docs/downloads/sheets already sync with it, and dropbox is redundant 8. Costco/Amazon.com/Farmer's Markets. I'm a massive consumer (mostly foods), but get 99% of everything I buy from those three sources. The last 1% probably comes from time-sensitive runs to a local pharmacy/drugstore. 9. Youtube for music. Still has more selection than all the other services combined
googletron 10y ago
1. Gmail 2. Chrome 3. Heroku 4. Youtube 5. Spotify 6. Dropbox 7. Gyroscope
pyrophane 10y ago
1. Emacs - I might have moved to something else if Spacemacs weren't so good. 2. Apple nearly everything - I've switched to Android and back several times, and have used Linux as my main desktop quite a bit, but I keep coming back to the Apple ecosystem. For all of its shortcomings (and there are certainly a few), Apple makes decent products that still mostly just work, and I like the fact that they make their money selling products, not ads, which is one of the big factors that has kept me from migrating to Google everything.
uptown 10y ago
1. SnappyApp - http://snappy-app.com/ http://snappy-app.com/ 2. Google Maps 3. Amazon 4. Snapseed iOS - The best photo editing app I've found. 5. Lightroom 6. Sublime Text
- neilsharma 10y ago
  snapseed looks slick -- just downloaded it!

6 points by neilsharma 10y ago

Websites, apps, SaaS services, or even physical stores. What brands and companies have survived the test of time in your life?

neilsharma 10y ago

1. Unroll.me - Easily unsubscribes to newsletters. I currently have over 500 unsubscribed newsletters through them, and sign on every 2-3 weeks to keep it updated 2. Adblockers - I cannot use the internet without them. I actually use two -- adguard and ublock 3. Yelp - Cause knowing where to eat is a perpetual need 4. Video Speed Controller - Chrome Extension that speeds up all html5 videos. Youtube already supports this, but now I can speed up Netflix, Amazon Prime, Vimeo, etc 5. Venmo -- still the best way of paying friends 6. MightyText -- because typing on phones is slow 7. Google Drive, because enough docs/downloads/sheets already sync with it, and dropbox is redundant 8. Costco/Amazon.com/Farmer's Markets. I'm a massive consumer (mostly foods), but get 99% of everything I buy from those three sources. The last 1% probably comes from time-sensitive runs to a local pharmacy/drugstore. 9. Youtube for music. Still has more selection than all the other services combined

googletron 10y ago

1. Gmail 2. Chrome 3. Heroku 4. Youtube 5. Spotify 6. Dropbox 7. Gyroscope

pyrophane 10y ago

1. Emacs - I might have moved to something else if Spacemacs weren't so good. 2. Apple nearly everything - I've switched to Android and back several times, and have used Linux as my main desktop quite a bit, but I keep coming back to the Apple ecosystem. For all of its shortcomings (and there are certainly a few), Apple makes decent products that still mostly just work, and I like the fact that they make their money selling products, not ads, which is one of the big factors that has kept me from migrating to Google everything.

uptown 10y ago

1. SnappyApp - http://snappy-app.com/ http://snappy-app.com/ 2. Google Maps 3. Amazon 4. Snapseed iOS - The best photo editing app I've found. 5. Lightroom 6. Sublime Text

neilsharma 10y ago
snapseed looks slick -- just downloaded it!