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Ask HN: What software do you pay for personally?

14 points by leerob 7y ago

- Spotify - NordVPN - 1Password - iCloud Storage - Netflix

rl3 7y ago
In order of happiness/perceived value for the money: Bvckup2 (https://bvckup2.com/ https://bvckup2.com/) Houdini Indie Redshift3D Spotify Windows 10 Jetbrains Complete Pack Steam games (almost universally when discounted during sales) Netflix Adobe Creative Cloud I suppose it isn't Jetbrains' fault I've switched to native vim, otherwise their suite is fantastic value.
- tcbasche 7y ago
  The Jetbrains pack is amazing value; however the quality of PyCharm has dipped lately...
- tomjen3 7y ago
  Mind pontificating on what is so amazing about the backup software? Doesn't seem to come with any cloud storage and seems to do basically what rsync does.
  - rl3 7y ago
    With pleasure: It's basically rsync or robocopy for Windows, but wrapped up in a nice GUI with additional features. I've used both and still use rsync on a daily basis, and one thing I don't miss is meticulously sifting through command line syntax in order to ensure all my data isn't accidentally destroyed. More to the point, the amazing part is the ethos and quality to which Bvckup2 is built. It's one of those rare gems that's essentially software excellence. It's fast, it's lean, it's very narrow in scope, and it has a mirror-shine polish. Software like that is a thing of beauty these days. It's made my backup situation on Windows an absolute pleasure to deal with, so that's why I recommend it.
jedicode 7y ago
Spotify (music) Sync (cloud storage) Adobe Creative Cloud I'm currently looking for privacy focused personal email suggestions if anyone has one. Protonmail looks promising
- 4d66ba06 7y ago
  Main downside of Protonmail is you can search email contents or use normal email clients without adapter software. I know its not encrypted but I like Fastmail.
  - 4d66ba06 7y ago
    typo fix: *can't search email contents
- catacombs 7y ago
  Mailfence.
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rolph 7y ago
I have never in my life paid for software
- catacombs 7y ago
  I find that hard to believe.
  - rolph 7y ago
    there is a lot of free open source ware and shareware was a big thing, never paid for windows its always been on a system prior to my gleaning it from the crappile. It is very easy to not pay for software and remain non criminal if you eschew the chronic redirections and upgrades that are not functionally neccesary but make money for someone. Hardware is another thing. Ive rarely paid for hardware, and definately not full retail price. The thing is a lot of commercial wares are full of features that are not needed, or are composites of "more primative" features
    - tcbasche 7y ago
      You must be fun at parties
      - rolph 7y ago
        thanx BTW always check any cd drives that come into your possesion, there are often disks left in them. undeleting files from a hardrive or thumbdrive is another source of free-for-you stuff.
    - catacombs 7y ago
      I'd be curious to read a list of all the free software you use.
      - rolph 7y ago
        first off not all is free for everyone, it is aquired for nothing. WIndows has been taken out as i dont need it anymore, ive gone full linux with wine and never went back linux mint libre office vlc masm32 various browsers these are my every day carrys, but the GNU FOSS ecosystem has everything i need and most of what i want, other than that i roll my own.
13415 7y ago
Useful: - Crashplan for Small Business (unlimited backups) - Kerish Doctor (affordable Windows maintenance that works) - a German email provider that I use since the 90s - Netflix Not really needed, but they were on sale and almost free anyway: - several cheap & insecure VPNs for watching geographically locked content - a not very well-known anti-virus For fun / entertainment: - lots and lots of games - I barely ever play them - lots and lots of VST audio plugins I don't really need
- huhtenberg 7y ago
  > Kerish Doctor Ouch... This looks like a classic snake oil optimizer, straight out of the late 90s.
  - jonathanstrange 7y ago
    Works perfectly fine. It's one of the few I would recommend.
bevax 7y ago
* as donation to KDE (100€/year) * occasional steam game (native Linux only)
simonblack 7y ago
Very, very little. If I do pay for anything, it's because I may choose to help a particular developer rather than actually having to. Everything necessary is free. I write some software and that allows me to donate back to the community in return.
karmakaze 7y ago
In order of importance to me: - Spotify - Cloud VMs for hobby projects - Fastmail - KGS Go Client for Android - JetBrains IDEs - Windows 10 (bundled with Surface Go) - Desktop productivity utilities from time to time - Games that I support but hardly ever play - Netflix (I think about cancelling all the time) Edit: I forgot about how I get one (Gran Turismo) or two (usually DLC) games for each PlayStation but then don't buy any more games.
slovette 7y ago
-Spotify -Amazon Prime -Smithsonian Channel -Plex -Pandora -Bitwarden -iCloud Storage -Nest -Digital Ocean -GSuite -ForeFlight -A few flight training MOOCs. -Notion -Mailbutler -Termius -NYT & WSJ -Audible
LeonB 7y ago
- LinqPad - Paint dot net
ybbond 7y ago
Onivim 2 (Patron) V language (Patron because curious) Paste 2 Spotify iCloud PS+ PS games Steam games good songs on Bandcamp
ploika 7y ago
1Password is my only software subscription, and over the years I've bought the paid versions of a couple of Android apps that I get a kick out of. I have online subscriptions to a couple of newspapers too, which I suppose I should count if other people are counting Netflix.
4d66ba06 7y ago
FastMail 1Password iCloud Storage Netflix, Spotify NYTimes, Apple News +, local newspaper Backup software Linode, AWS
yamrzou 7y ago
Fastmail 1Password Dropbox Mullvad VPN
davchana 7y ago
Domains (no choice) Google One (free 6 months from Local Guide, after that yearly) Nova Launcher app Texpander Pro app
Trias11 7y ago
Photoshop SmugMug
thojest 7y ago
What is so great about 1Password? Why do you not use open source alternatives like e.g. keepassXC?
- thojest 7y ago
  Furthermore: https://support.1password.com/pbkdf2/ https://support.1password.com/pbkdf2/ Isn't PBKDF2 outdated in 2019? I thought today you should use scrypt or Argon2?
  - deleted 7y ago
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- swaroop 7y ago
  1. UX 2. Family sharing of passwords [1] [1] https://1password.com/families/ https://1password.com/families/
eb0la 7y ago
- Office365 - Sublime Text - Designer tools - Video editors
safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
NordVPN is a data mining fraud, that is inadequately aggressively advertised from every corner, that owns many websites with VPN rankings, that lies about being in Panama, that decreases your privacy much by retaining logs. The only valid reason to use it would be to avoid geo-blocking. If you use NordVPN for any other reason (such as, for privacy), you have been fooled, unfortunately. If you find this comment helpful, help others by informing them. Besides that, try to read some writes about why you should not to use any VPN services. It's easy to find promotional articles of various VPN providers about how they enhance your privacy, but instead try to look for arguments against. Only if you live in an very oppressive country and trust someone without name your exit point more, than your ISP (not sarcasm), or if you want to bypass geo-blocking, it makes sense to use VPN providers. Otherwise, you are harming your privacy and paying for an overpriced service to someone who does nothing but resells bandwidth and studies your traffic.
- hitsurume 7y ago
  A little confused about what you're trying to say: Is NordVPN not a trust worthy VPN provider, or is VPN technology itself not trust worthy at all?
  - testing6666 7y ago
    I'm confused about this too. I don't use a VPN, have been wanting to purchase a subscription to one for sometime but I haven't been sure which to get since I don't trust any of those rating sites.
    - safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
      It's wise of you not to trust the ratings. Practically all VPN provider rating websites give those score based purely of their affiliate fees [0]. I would recommend not to purchase any subscriptions. This whole "VPN for privacy" thing more and more looks like a meme created by the industry of useless entities that resell bandwidth. It's a very profitable industry because they do nothing but receive money, they don't protect you legally either; those who lie about their no-logs policy, without hesitation give your data away to the law enforcement agencies. [0] http://vpnscam.com/is-purevpn-legit-proof-that-purevpn-bought-every-vpn-review/ http://vpnscam.com/is-purevpn-legit-proof-that-purevpn-bough...
Shorel 7y ago
SublimeText 3. pCloud. In the past I paid for Spotify and Netflix. And as an Steam user, more games than I remember.
alireza94 7y ago
- 1Password - Ulysses - iCloud storage - BetterTouchTool (Single purchase but best software purchase of my life)
sahinyanlik 7y ago
- Windows - Netflix - Spotify

14 points by leerob 7y ago

- Spotify - NordVPN - 1Password - iCloud Storage - Netflix

rl3 7y ago

In order of happiness/perceived value for the money: Bvckup2 (https://bvckup2.com/ https://bvckup2.com/) Houdini Indie Redshift3D Spotify Windows 10 Jetbrains Complete Pack Steam games (almost universally when discounted during sales) Netflix Adobe Creative Cloud I suppose it isn't Jetbrains' fault I've switched to native vim, otherwise their suite is fantastic value.

tcbasche 7y ago
The Jetbrains pack is amazing value; however the quality of PyCharm has dipped lately...
tomjen3 7y ago
Mind pontificating on what is so amazing about the backup software? Doesn't seem to come with any cloud storage and seems to do basically what rsync does.
- rl3 7y ago
  With pleasure: It's basically rsync or robocopy for Windows, but wrapped up in a nice GUI with additional features. I've used both and still use rsync on a daily basis, and one thing I don't miss is meticulously sifting through command line syntax in order to ensure all my data isn't accidentally destroyed. More to the point, the amazing part is the ethos and quality to which Bvckup2 is built. It's one of those rare gems that's essentially software excellence. It's fast, it's lean, it's very narrow in scope, and it has a mirror-shine polish. Software like that is a thing of beauty these days. It's made my backup situation on Windows an absolute pleasure to deal with, so that's why I recommend it.

jedicode 7y ago

Spotify (music) Sync (cloud storage) Adobe Creative Cloud I'm currently looking for privacy focused personal email suggestions if anyone has one. Protonmail looks promising

4d66ba06 7y ago
Main downside of Protonmail is you can search email contents or use normal email clients without adapter software. I know its not encrypted but I like Fastmail.
- 4d66ba06 7y ago
  typo fix: *can't search email contents
catacombs 7y ago
Mailfence.

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rolph 7y ago

I have never in my life paid for software

catacombs 7y ago
I find that hard to believe.
- rolph 7y ago
  there is a lot of free open source ware and shareware was a big thing, never paid for windows its always been on a system prior to my gleaning it from the crappile. It is very easy to not pay for software and remain non criminal if you eschew the chronic redirections and upgrades that are not functionally neccesary but make money for someone. Hardware is another thing. Ive rarely paid for hardware, and definately not full retail price. The thing is a lot of commercial wares are full of features that are not needed, or are composites of "more primative" features
  - tcbasche 7y ago
    You must be fun at parties
    - rolph 7y ago
      thanx BTW always check any cd drives that come into your possesion, there are often disks left in them. undeleting files from a hardrive or thumbdrive is another source of free-for-you stuff.
  - catacombs 7y ago
    I'd be curious to read a list of all the free software you use.
    - rolph 7y ago
      first off not all is free for everyone, it is aquired for nothing. WIndows has been taken out as i dont need it anymore, ive gone full linux with wine and never went back linux mint libre office vlc masm32 various browsers these are my every day carrys, but the GNU FOSS ecosystem has everything i need and most of what i want, other than that i roll my own.

13415 7y ago

Useful: - Crashplan for Small Business (unlimited backups) - Kerish Doctor (affordable Windows maintenance that works) - a German email provider that I use since the 90s - Netflix Not really needed, but they were on sale and almost free anyway: - several cheap & insecure VPNs for watching geographically locked content - a not very well-known anti-virus For fun / entertainment: - lots and lots of games - I barely ever play them - lots and lots of VST audio plugins I don't really need

huhtenberg 7y ago
> Kerish Doctor Ouch... This looks like a classic snake oil optimizer, straight out of the late 90s.
- jonathanstrange 7y ago
  Works perfectly fine. It's one of the few I would recommend.

bevax 7y ago

* as donation to KDE (100€/year) * occasional steam game (native Linux only)

simonblack 7y ago

Very, very little. If I do pay for anything, it's because I may choose to help a particular developer rather than actually having to. Everything necessary is free. I write some software and that allows me to donate back to the community in return.

karmakaze 7y ago

In order of importance to me: - Spotify - Cloud VMs for hobby projects - Fastmail - KGS Go Client for Android - JetBrains IDEs - Windows 10 (bundled with Surface Go) - Desktop productivity utilities from time to time - Games that I support but hardly ever play - Netflix (I think about cancelling all the time) Edit: I forgot about how I get one (Gran Turismo) or two (usually DLC) games for each PlayStation but then don't buy any more games.

slovette 7y ago

-Spotify -Amazon Prime -Smithsonian Channel -Plex -Pandora -Bitwarden -iCloud Storage -Nest -Digital Ocean -GSuite -ForeFlight -A few flight training MOOCs. -Notion -Mailbutler -Termius -NYT & WSJ -Audible

LeonB 7y ago

- LinqPad - Paint dot net

ybbond 7y ago

Onivim 2 (Patron) V language (Patron because curious) Paste 2 Spotify iCloud PS+ PS games Steam games good songs on Bandcamp

ploika 7y ago

1Password is my only software subscription, and over the years I've bought the paid versions of a couple of Android apps that I get a kick out of. I have online subscriptions to a couple of newspapers too, which I suppose I should count if other people are counting Netflix.

4d66ba06 7y ago

FastMail 1Password iCloud Storage Netflix, Spotify NYTimes, Apple News +, local newspaper Backup software Linode, AWS

yamrzou 7y ago

Fastmail 1Password Dropbox Mullvad VPN

davchana 7y ago

Domains (no choice) Google One (free 6 months from Local Guide, after that yearly) Nova Launcher app Texpander Pro app

Trias11 7y ago

Photoshop SmugMug

thojest 7y ago

What is so great about 1Password? Why do you not use open source alternatives like e.g. keepassXC?

thojest 7y ago
Furthermore: https://support.1password.com/pbkdf2/ https://support.1password.com/pbkdf2/ Isn't PBKDF2 outdated in 2019? I thought today you should use scrypt or Argon2?
- deleted 7y ago
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swaroop 7y ago
1. UX 2. Family sharing of passwords [1] [1] https://1password.com/families/ https://1password.com/families/

eb0la 7y ago

- Office365 - Sublime Text - Designer tools - Video editors

safeplanet-fesa 7y ago

NordVPN is a data mining fraud, that is inadequately aggressively advertised from every corner, that owns many websites with VPN rankings, that lies about being in Panama, that decreases your privacy much by retaining logs. The only valid reason to use it would be to avoid geo-blocking. If you use NordVPN for any other reason (such as, for privacy), you have been fooled, unfortunately. If you find this comment helpful, help others by informing them. Besides that, try to read some writes about why you should not to use any VPN services. It's easy to find promotional articles of various VPN providers about how they enhance your privacy, but instead try to look for arguments against. Only if you live in an very oppressive country and trust someone without name your exit point more, than your ISP (not sarcasm), or if you want to bypass geo-blocking, it makes sense to use VPN providers. Otherwise, you are harming your privacy and paying for an overpriced service to someone who does nothing but resells bandwidth and studies your traffic.

hitsurume 7y ago
A little confused about what you're trying to say: Is NordVPN not a trust worthy VPN provider, or is VPN technology itself not trust worthy at all?
- testing6666 7y ago
  I'm confused about this too. I don't use a VPN, have been wanting to purchase a subscription to one for sometime but I haven't been sure which to get since I don't trust any of those rating sites.
  - safeplanet-fesa 7y ago
    It's wise of you not to trust the ratings. Practically all VPN provider rating websites give those score based purely of their affiliate fees [0]. I would recommend not to purchase any subscriptions. This whole "VPN for privacy" thing more and more looks like a meme created by the industry of useless entities that resell bandwidth. It's a very profitable industry because they do nothing but receive money, they don't protect you legally either; those who lie about their no-logs policy, without hesitation give your data away to the law enforcement agencies. [0] http://vpnscam.com/is-purevpn-legit-proof-that-purevpn-bought-every-vpn-review/ http://vpnscam.com/is-purevpn-legit-proof-that-purevpn-bough...

Shorel 7y ago

SublimeText 3. pCloud. In the past I paid for Spotify and Netflix. And as an Steam user, more games than I remember.

alireza94 7y ago

- 1Password - Ulysses - iCloud storage - BetterTouchTool (Single purchase but best software purchase of my life)

sahinyanlik 7y ago

- Windows - Netflix - Spotify