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Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price?
I've come to use (and love) several subscriptions that I believe are well worth their price.
My list:
Dropbox
1Password
Cloak VPN
Newton Email
SmugMug
Amazon Prime
Lapham's Quarterly
Do you have any you'd like to share? Software, print, lifestyle, household--
doesn't matter. :)
- xwvvvvwx 9y agoSpotify
- verganileonardo 9y agoGoogle Drive (especially to expand Gmail storage)
- malux85 9y agoDigitally Imported (http://www.di.fm/ http://www.di.fm/) no affiliation, just happy customer
- kreeWall 9y agoSpotify and Amazon Prime for me! I love the ability to have my music with me all of the time and Spotify's interface, and Amazon Prime pays for itself in free shipping - my family loves their content!
- littleweep 9y agoSpotify, Amazon Prime, NY Times
- paulcole 9y agoApple Music, Hulu, MLS Live (American professional soccer), NFL Sunday Ticket (American professional football), Twitch (I subscribe to several streamers I like).
- alashley 9y agoPluralsight
- skiltz 9y agohttps://cronitor.io https://cronitor.io - Helps me sleep.
- dionmanu 9y agoAmazon Prime and Costco for me. I have the executive membership at Costco, which basically pays for itself with the annual 2% reward on purchases.
- UK-AL 9y agoNetflix, Amazon prime
- patatino 9y agoDropbox, 1Password, Spotify, couple of content creators on patreon
- mars4rp 9y agoC9.io
- tedmiston 9y agoHas the service changed post acquisition? I was under the impression Amazon was going to fade it into their own product line e.g. as an editor for Lambda.
- mars4rp 9y agoI haven't notice anything, I think they were not using AWS before acquisition. it makes sense if they moved their clouds to AWS. but their service was up and I didn't notice anything.
- fspear 9y agoSafari Books online, Netflix, Google Play Music, Amazon Prime
- akg_67 9y agoDropbox, Netflix, Costco, Memrise (language learning app) are the only paid subscriptions I use.
- cm2012 9y agoAs a marketing consultant: Zapier Microsoft Office Zapier Photoshop Zapier ActiveCampaign Xero UberConference Zapier
- whitepoplar 9y agoZapier is indeed handy! (as is ActiveCampaign) I'm currently building email marketing software. Is there anything that's surprisingly frustrating about the existing email marketing companies? What do you wish was different, apart from the price?
- cm2012 9y agoThey meet my needs, honestly.
- jnbiche 9y agoI've always been surprised that so few business professionals take advantage of Zapier. Online marketing consultants seem to be among the few professional groups to have latched on to all that Zapier has to offer. I know so many small business owners who do some amount of online work who could save so much time by using Zapier, but they typically seem uninterested. It's a shame Zapier doesn't offer any type of affiliate/partnership programs or I'd try to find some way to show business professionals how to save massive time by automating with Zapiers.
- simplehuman 9y agoCloudron.io (amazing for self hosting)
- wolco 9y agoLaracasts, netflicks
- aminozuur 9y agoBrazzers
- sergiotapia 9y agoYnab
- e_py 9y agoAmazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, PSN
- iDemonix 9y agoPrime, GitHub
- kk_cz 9y agoI am happy with the cheapest ssd vps option from OVH - I run debian with few low traffic websites and so far it works great. I have also recently switched from Adobe Creative Photography plan to Zoner Photo Studio - for about 1/4 of the price (it has the same functionality as Lightroom and I wasn't using Photoshop anyway)
- swah 9y agoSpotify, 1password, netflix, google drive
- kzisme 9y agoDoes anyone have suggestions for a VPN (Is Cloak pretty good?) Also I have never heard of Lapham's Quarterly - any reviews on that?
- alltakendamned 9y agoF-Secure Freedome
- SmellTheGlove 9y agoOnline - Dropbox Amazon Prime (trying Google Express right now) Netflix $5 VPS on DO for small projects Google Apps for a couple of domains, mainly for email Straight Talk, 2 lines Offline - Sam's Club (no Costco up here) Beach parking permit Children's Museum (go with the ACM Passport level membership if your local one is part of this association, you get benefits when visiting member museums in other cities) Disney Vacation Club Citi Prestige Mastercard (has some benefits going away, but a great card for travel benefits and insurance)
- pedrodelfino 9y agoDropbox RescueTime
- minhajuddin 9y agoI am gonna sound trite. But here goes nothing. LiveForm (https://liveformhq.com/ https://liveformhq.com/) is a service which allows you to setup form endpoints with reCAPTCHA and a ton of other things (including file uploads). And, it costs $3 per month. Full Disclosure: I built it. Also, Google Drive.