4 ms·
Ask HN: What (desktop?) software have you paid for recently?
For me possibly the only thing I've bought in years is Simplify3D - http://Simplify3D.com/ - which is a fairly powerful STL-slicer-to-any-3d-printer magic box of tricks that I'm very happy with. There are open source kinda-solutions that I got tired of fighting.
I'm getting pretty close to buying Scrivener - https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview - despite it's various weird interface choices and apparently multiple conflicting codebases for difference OS.
I've also run in to the limits of Inkscape and can crash/hang it reliably which will mean a move to Adobe, which I've never touched before.
Curious to hear what else is out there?
- gjvc 8y agoJetbrains Toolbox subscription
- buescher 8y agoIn the last year: dBpoweramp for, finally, ripping my whole CD collection to lossless. Advantages over itunes: much faster, better feedback on read errors. VueScan for using my old scanner with modern Windows. Just worked. OrCAD because Cadence was running a low-cost promotion. I also upgraded my home use license for Mathematica.
- iso1337 8y agoTurboTax
- howard941 8y agoH&R Block here. At $DAY_JOB I paid for VMware
- ohiovr 8y agoI bought cyberduck last week as I had enough of FileZilla’s update nagging and main thread hogging shenanigans
- moondev 8y agohttps://www.virtualhere.com/usb_server_software https://www.virtualhere.com/usb_server_software Usb over Ethernet! I run it in my homelab and it's worth every penny. Amazing tool.