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Ask HN: Which paid apps and services do you use?

89 points by asaddhamani 12y ago

Can be exclusively paid apps/services or ones with a free tier available. Examples could be Pinboard, Instapaper, Zapier, PostHaven, Lastpass, anything really.

greenyoda 12y ago
FastMail, NewsBlur and Amazon Prime video.
philiphodgen 12y ago
Basecamp (2 accounts, soon to be 3), Base CRM, Google Apps, Lastpass, Instapaper, Google Apps (multiple), Quickbooks Online (multiple), an entirely disposable time billing program that plugs into Quickbooks that I won't name because I don't want to be sued for libel, Evernote, Crashplan. Edit: Feedly. Some of these will not survive the earthquake.
rzimmerman 12y ago
I use Sublime Text (and occasionally TextMate). It saves me time so I'm sure it's payed for itself already. I also use AWS for some personal hosting.
jonah 12y ago
Adobe Creative Suite, OmniGraffle, PaintCode, Sublime Text, Airfoil, Transmit, OfficeTime, GitHub, Rdio, Basecamp, Skype.
Bahamut 12y ago
Netflix, GitHub, Sublime Text, Amazon Prime + Music cloud, and Adobe Photoshop
Terpaholic 12y ago
Spotify, TimeDoctor, Google Ads, Reddit Ads, AWS, Guitar Tuner App
unsignedint 12y ago
Photoshop, Amazon Prime, Pixiv, Eijiro (an online Japanese dictionary), GitHub, Feedly, Blender Cloud (more of donation than service...) Google Music All-Access, Crunchyroll
d4mi3n 12y ago
Cinch, 1Password, Rdio, AWS, Hipchat, Zendesk
alex_duf 12y ago
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m0nastic 12y ago
Off the top of my head-- Services: Fastmail.fm (for personal email), Office365 (for more legitimate email), Evernote (had a paid account for a few years, although I never use it), 500px (for non-professional photos), DigitalOcean for VPS, Netflix (not sure if you mean consumer services), Amazon Prime (I only use it for the shipping), Hulu+ Apps (a subsection at least): Mathematica (I'm happy to pay for the Home version), 1Password (although I've stopped using it since iCloud Keychain Sync), Pixelmator, Capture One, NI Maschine, NI Tracktor, Pretty much every audio app for iOS (iMaschine, Figure, iKaossilator, iMS-20, SampleWiz, Lemur, Vogel CMI Pro, Animoog, Scape)
- benguild 12y ago
  You actually use iCloud Keychain? It's great for syncing Wi-Fi networks but it seems kind of clunky for anything else
  - threeseed 12y ago
    I do and I've found it to work fine. It can autofill credit card numbers and passwords on my iPhone/iPad.
    - pooper 12y ago
      If I remember correctly even Steve Gibson, who sang praises of the Apple security apparatus saw the iCloud as a weak link in iOS security in his three part series (sn 446 through 448) on TWiT. Thoughts? https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0446/sn0446_h264m_1280x720_1872.mp4 https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0446/sn0446_h264m_1280x... https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0447/sn0447_h264m_1280x720_1872.mp4 https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0447/sn0447_h264m_1280x... https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0448/sn0448_h264m_1280x720_1872.mp4 https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0448/sn0448_h264m_1280x...
      - m0nastic 12y ago
        I think products like 1Password, Keypass, Lastpass, etc. are a good idea, in that they're making it much easier to encourage a culture of strong, unique passwords for every application and website. Of those, I favor 1Password, because the people making it have a good track record of making generally good security implementations, and being receptive of feedback when issues are discovered. They've been good about updating the apps when an issue is discovered, and haven't made it a super regular occurrence. They also allow flexibility of storing the password database, which I prefer over the services that store your passwords with them, as you are now reliant on their own security implementations. If you want to, you can store it in dropbox, so that you can access the web-based version anywhere you can log into the Dropbox website. You're now putting an awful lot of faith in the security of Dropbox, but it's an option at least. But fundamentally, this is a problem which should be solved by the ecosystem providers. Windows, Mac OS X, Firefox syncing, Chrome (I assume Chrome has a way to sync passwords to wherever you're logged into, I don't use Chrome). I'm comfortable enough trusting Apple to secure all my login credentials that I'm willing to use the built-in functionality. Much like how I use "Reading List" instead of any of the "article saver applications". It works fairly well, I don't have to mess with it, I don't have to give my data to some other company, it just shows up in all my browsers on all of my devices.
hfern 12y ago
Cerberus [1] is a must have to keep phones safe. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.cerberus https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.ce...
dav- 12y ago
LastPass, Spotify, DigitalOcean, GitHub, Netflix, Amazon Prime
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georgebonnr 12y ago
Evernote Premium, and that's pretty much it. It has its flaws, but it's made a big difference as a catch-all brain bin for me.
- jaxn 12y ago
  Yes, Evernote Premium was the very first thing to come to mind. I also use RescueTime and OmniFocus. There are plenty of paid apps on my phone / tablet / computer, but those are ones that I would struggle to replace. The paid app I would love to get rid of: Quickbooks.
  - benguild 12y ago
    It's interesting how so many people on here are instantly thinking "Evernote" when they think of paid online services. I think it's one of the few things that people are actually happy to pay for.
  - notduncansmith 12y ago
    Have you found the paid experience with RescueTime to be worth it? I've been using it for free for a bit, and I feel like I get just enough data; it's hard to see what else I'd want from it.
    - jaxn 12y ago
      I have alerts set up to notify me when I have goofed off too much for one day. That feature alone is worth the premium fee for RescueTime.
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  - bhahn 12y ago
    What don't you like about Quickbooks? Why not switch to something else?
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chops 12y ago
irccloud.com - For running a few open source projects, I find an always-on connection and getting instant mobile notifications to be totally worth the $5/month. Otherwise, for fun non-worky-type stuff: Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon Prime are the most prominent ones coming to mind.
hrabago 12y ago
The ones I actually use are AppCode, IntelliJ, Textastic, Medialoot, Creative Market, Sketch 2, Sketch 3. I'm still evaluating crash reporting/analytics services for iOS apps.
zomg 12y ago
off the top of my head: backblaze, rackspace email, ynab, mailmate, linode, todoist, divvy, jazzradio.com, amazon s3, 1password, alfred, newsblur, instapaper
kasperset 12y ago
Github,Posthaven,Pinboard,Flickr and Dropbox
AndrusAsumets 12y ago
sync.club [1], Gmail, Gdocs, Google Calendar, Gliffy, Videostream, Github, Dropbox, Amazon EC2, Photoshop, Skype [1] - http://sync.club/#electronicmusic http://sync.club/#electronicmusic
HeyLaughingBoy 12y ago
GitHub. I think I pay them the princely sum of $7/month for a few private repositories. And somehow I forgot Netflix, Xbox music and Xbox Live. Guess they just fade into the background.
- asaddhamani 12y ago
  Have you tried giving Bitbucket a try? They provide unlimited private repositories for free. Its not as easy to use as GitHub but it does the job.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 12y ago
    Bitbucket is still around?
dalerus 12y ago
For work: Office365, Adobe Suite, GitHub, Deploy, Digital Ocean VPS, Treehouse, Evernote, Nozbe, Basecamp, Team Gantt, Skype, WP Engine, Dropbox Business Non-work: Rdio, Amazon Prime, Dropbox Personal, Lastpass
Gracana 12y ago
I have a Ramnode VPS. Also xbox live, I didn't think about that until someone mentioned it here. I share a netflix account with my roommate. I buy books from amazon and google for my android tablet. I don't own a smartphone, the plans are too expensive.
jmgtan 12y ago
Freshbooks, Github, PhpStorm, Sublime Text (for those quick python/node js applications), AWS Thinking if I should probably get Intellij since I've been doing a lot of Java these past few weeks.
thejosh 12y ago
note taking in the browser: evernote chat with phone notifications: irccloud.com hosting personal projects / testing things: digitalocean music: spotify (seriously, how I lived before spotify is a mystery)
crapshoot101 12y ago
Instapaper and Amazon Prime are primarily what comes to mind; though also will end up paying for Dropbox soon. Personally, Spotify, as well as Netflix.
w1ntermute 12y ago
Feral Hosting (seedbox) and Amazon Prime.
Ologn 12y ago
Linode, Rackspace, Namecheap, plus some legacy Dreamhost and Bluehost stuff.
daviddede 12y ago
Top of my list: Linode, Digital Ocean, Sucuri, CloudProxy, Balsamiq and Amazon Ec2.
lelandbatey 12y ago
Here's an estimate: Spotify Amazon Prime Netflix Lastpass Wolfram Alpha DigitalOcean Amazon EC2 OVH (Dedicated server) Sublime Text (not really an app, but I still count it)
FiloSottile 12y ago
Sorted by amount: Linode ($20/mo) Cloudflare ($20/mo) Freshbooks ($20/mo) DreamHost ($8.95/mo) GitHub ($7/mo) FastMail ($40/yr) Tarsnap (some bucks/mo) Pinboard ($25/yr) Amazon.it Prime (10€/yr) Instapaper ($12/yr) AWS (???) Gandi (???) 1Password ($50 + $18) Sublime Text 2 ($70) Dash ($20) Tweetbot And I love them all. Thanks for asking, it made for a good reflection on what I pay for, and what value I get.
- Retric 12y ago
  IMO, it's useful to look at reoccurring payments not as a minor drain, but cost over 30 years ignoring inflation/ROI. This is also about how much money you would need to invest to cover it indefinitely. So for example: Linode ($20/mo) + Cloudflare ($20/mo) + Freshbooks ($20/mo) + DreamHost ($8.95/mo) + GitHub ($7/mo) = 27,360$. Which could easily be worth it but just another way of looking at things.
- cperciva 12y ago
  what I pay for, and what value I get Out of curiosity: How much value do you get out of each of the above services? (Patrick, Thomas: Please don't turn this into a discussion about Tarsnap being underpriced. I'm asking because I want to hear FiloSottile's opinion about all the other services he uses.)
  - FiloSottile 12y ago
    What I look for in a paid service, and what I get from these is a reliable, out-of-my-way, "premium" (I feel that the service is working to make things best for me) solution to _one_ problem I have, with good support that actually cares, if applicable. All of them will never misbehave, or make me think "did it work" or "how do I turn this off, it's annoying!". Usually, I don't have to learn much. _They are tools_. Linode gets me a box with a clear, clean, full-featured control panel, good specs and network, and every year or so, I'll magically get upgraded, so that I feel I'm always getting the best for my money (even if other services are cheaper). Problem solved: "I need a Ubuntu box". Cloudflare will cache my site -- making it faster for clients and lighter for me --, handle DNS and get me A+ TLS (and other services I don't actually use) at the turn of a button. Problem solved: "My site is slow" + SSL as a bonus. Freshbooks lets me track my time, invoices and payments with 0 learning curve, I'm busy working after all. Big colored buttons will tell me what to do, and if I can't still figure it out, support will do that for me. Problem solved: "I need to send clients invoices". DreamHost hosts anything, unlimited. Power-user friendly, I never thought "I wish they allowed/supported that". For small websites, obv. Problem solved: "I need to host this sites/domains/DNS/mailboxes for my clients". GitHub is how I'm trained to manage projects, for my private ones. PRs, Markdown, clear git views. Also, GitHub Pages is the best static hosting platform I ever used. Problem solved: "I need manage my project" + static hosting as a bonus. FastMail simply handles my mail. Mail is a horrible thing to deal with on your own, but I rely on it, so I want to pay for it. I get my domain with TLS delivery, a support line with devs, and nice power-user tools. It's fast, compatible, reliable and has a nice web interface, I don't need anything else. Problem solved: "I need to receive and send mail". Pinboard just saves my favorites, and lets me search through them when I need (full-text search). No useless social stuff on top of that. Also, it will store a copy of everything I bookmarked, so that it does not get lost. Problem solved: "I remember reading about that somewhere, let's look it up". Amazon.it Prime is just the free shipping part, it makes shopping oh-so-much-more enjoyable. Problem solved: "I want that item". Instapaper... well I don't actually NEED this one, but it's a nice way to read articles and they will store/index them for me once I read them (see Pinboard) and it's dirty cheap. AWS works. I have 25.000 req/min on my Heartbleed test API? Fine, spin up that Elastic Load Balancer in front of 15 of those EC2 machines, store logs in that S3 bucket, use that DynamoDB as cache. Or, I have this blockchain to analyze, let's spin up that 3 big EC2 machines. Problem solved: "I need to scale this service". Gandi sells me any domain for a reasonable price, without bugging me with those AwEs0m3 Features!!!1!!1 I could buy for just 9.99$. "No bullshit" indeed. (Maybe they should drop those web hosting offer emails, they are on the edge of annoying, but being plain text and one-off makes them bearable.) Problem solved: "I want that domain". 1Password stores and generates my passwords and identities safely, with a native easy-to-use interface that is not too intrusive. I used Lastpass for a while but I closed those ugly bars that screw up the page layout too many times, and they like HTML too much, the 1P native interface is much more smooth. Also, you can't trick 1Password to autocompile unless I trigger the hotkey, it feels safer. Problem solved: "These bloody password". Sublime Text is a nice editor with a good community, and I'm a programmer, I spend most of my time inside it, possibly making money. It's a no-brainer to get the best available. Also, it's easy to use to the unexperienced, and you can get fairly productive going on. Problem solved: "I want to write code, TODAY. And be faster tomorrow." Dash. Oh my God I <3 Dash. Can I pay it more? Double? 5 times more? Programming is looking up docs, some of us get entire vertical screens for that. Dash will get me any docs I want for any language (or Go package, since Beta!) with a single global hotkey and blazing fast fuzzy search. Did I mention "offline"!? I would not be programming on this airplane without it and it makes me much more fast and focused (since there is a separate space for docs, I get less distracted) in what I do every day. Problem solved: "How do I use that function again?" Tweetbot is Twitter done right: 140 characters, images. Simple gestures and good feedback; offline tweets. No fuss, just... tweets. If I have to waste time, at least let's do it efficiently! Finally, Tarsnap. Tarsnap makes archiving (I keep there old clients' data, too) and backing up data feel as if it was local, with the peace of mind of knowing that it's being compressed, deduplicated (I don't have to figure out what synchronized or incremental means, and I get to backup stuff as often as I want, yay!), replicated on the "cloud" (on S3 I mean) and encrypted at the state of the art, by open source code. Also, key management is so clean: printable text files, tiered permissions and no account management after key generation, I love that. Btw, yes I would pay some more for it, no I like the geek-to-geek feel even if I understand the business fuss, yes I'd LOVE auto-refilling, please take my money if I run low. And thanks for it! Did I address your question or did you mean something different? P.S. A problem I'd like to see solved by a single service (instead of HipChat+Hangout+Flowdock+IrcCloud+Skype+Viber) is "I need to chat/speak with this person (that might not use the service already) and I want indexed logs/recordings".
apaprocki 12y ago
Arq + Glacier, Parallels, 1Password, Ancestry + FTM, 23andme, FTDNA
- moepstar 12y ago
  Really, you enjoy paying for Parallels (over and over again)? That's one product i'm absolutely looking to get rid of - problem is lack of _suitable_ alternatives (i.e. comparable performance in 3D apps)...
  - apaprocki 12y ago
    I don't mind paying a reasonable price for something that works very well and that I use every day. I used to use VirtualBox and after switching it is night-and-day difference.
cageface 12y ago
Sketch, Ableton Live, NI Komplete, Digital Ocean, Fastmail, Google Play Music All Access, JetBrains AppCode, Adobe CC (not for much longer)
- pestaa 12y ago
  Why are you cancelling CC?
  - cageface 12y ago
    Sketch is good enough for my purposes and actually much better overall for my main use case which is producing bitmap images for mobile apps and web pages. Exporting assets out of CC, particularly at multiple resolutions, is a nightmare.
joelrunyon 12y ago
I'm not always intimately familiar with every app - so if you can include a brief description of what the app does - it'd be super helpful.
zuccs 12y ago
Off the top of my head... AWS, Linode, Rackspace, Spotify, 1Password, Sublime, Panic Transmit, Dropbox, DNSimple, Github, Harvest, Xero, Google Apps..
rahimnathwani 12y ago
I'm only listing the ones which come to mind immediately. There are others (particularly apps with one-off up-front payments) which I don't use regularly and turned out not to be important to me. One-off (paid or freemium): Pleco (Chinese dictionary with paid flashcard functionality) Groundwire (SIP client for iOS, including Push notifications) GoodReader (PDF reader and organizer for iOS) Pushover (trigger iOS push notifications from email, IFTTT etc.) MindNode (iOS mind-mapping) BubbleUPnp (Android DLNA server) SnappyCam Pro (iOS camera) Cycloramic Pro (iOS camera) Regular payments: Pandora (streaming radio) Several different virtual servers (for web apps and VPN) Newsblur (RSS reader) DIDLogic (monthly fee to get an inbound local phone number) The Economist (print subscription includes online/app access) Usage-based fees: Rebtel (outbound phone calls) DIDLogic (outbound phone calls)
arvin 12y ago
Google AppEngine, Amazon EC2
notduncansmith 12y ago
DigitalOcean (still on the trial but I'll be paying when it's up) Netflix Spotify AWS (at work) LastPass (at work) Alfred 2 Namecheap Dash Trello Destroy All Software (not an "app", but a fantastic purchase) --- The most valuable (in order) have been: Alfred 2 (easily worth 10x the price) Dash (would have paid double) DigitalOcean (simplest VPS I've ever worked with) DAS (still getting value out of this but loving it so far) Namecheap (great domain service, been with them for years and had 0 problems) I would cut Spotify but I have a visceral negative reaction to commercials. Can't stand em. I'd cut Netflix, but it's faster than torrenting and the time it saves me is worth it. This has been a really interesting thought exercise, thanks for posting this!
Sami_Lehtinen 12y ago
Hosting UpCloud probably DO or OVH later Domains NameCheap All software and services I'm using on mobile or on computer is free or self hosted.
Dejital 12y ago
Pinboard; bookmark management with archival Newsblur; RSS feed reader Spotify
tekknolagi 12y ago
DigitalOcean ($5/mo) Gandi.net ($200/yr) Tarsnap ($3/mo) CrashPlan ($6/mo)
palcu 12y ago
At home I've only bought apps for my Android: Remember the Milk (old school, but it's still alive), Sleep as Android, Digital Ocean, Lux Dash. At work: HipChat, Propane (client for Campfire), Sublime Text, Github.
hagope 12y ago
Anyone know a really easy way to get a list of all apps that I've purchased on both App store and Google play (and how much)?
- cheald 12y ago
  https://play.google.com/store/account https://play.google.com/store/account should give you your purchase history.
thedays 12y ago
Tuffmail (has been rock solid IMAP hosting provider for my personal email for over 7 years) | Sanebox (helps keep my email inbox under control) | Sugarsync (solid and reliable file sharing and backup. More flexible than Dropbox - can't understand why more people don't use it) |Mynetfone (good, reliable Australian VOIP provider) | Wordpress.com Namecheap | Netflix | Getflix | Spotify
dueprocess 12y ago
Deezer, Silvrback, Highrise (keeps me organized), Evernote, and several others I can't recall at the moment. If I was to pick a favorite, it'd be Deezer. I derive so much use and enjoyment from it. Huge value.
- kdelwat 12y ago
  What do you think makes Deezer better than other services like Spotify and Pandora?
  - dueprocess 12y ago
    I can't use Spotify or Pandora because I'm in Canada.
adrianhoward 12y ago
Work: * Linode - for hosting * Namecheap - for domains * CrashPlan - for one layer of our backups (other layers are timemachine, dropbox, and disk imaging) * Pinboard for links. * Office 365 - because the £8 per month is worth it for dealing with the MS files that other people send us and expect edits on. No - OpenOffice isn't good enough at conversions. * Google Docs - for shared editing * Dropbox - for sharing files + another layer of backups * ScreenHero - for screen sharing * Slack - for chat * Trello - for organising everything * CloudApp - for random sharing of screenshots * Buffer - for social account organisation (suboptimal - but best of the bunch that I've played with.) * Until recently Adobe CS subscription, but our usage dropped so much we've swapped for Pixelmator & Sketch as an experiment... * Sublime Text 2 - editing on desktop * Editorial & Writeroom - writing on iPad & iPhone * OmniGraffle - wireframing, but very rarely used now * aText - text abbreviation expansion on OS X * Carbon Copy Cloner - backups * Air Display - so I can use the iPad as a second screen when I'm on the road * AntiRSI - reminds me to take screen breaks * Skype - conference calls * Transmit - [S]FTP client * TunnelBear - UK/US tunneling, useful when I'm not in UK for some foolish things Play: * Have a subscription to the excellent PseudoPod, EscapePod & PodCastle podcasts * SMBC comic patreon subscription * Whatever the amazon streaming video thing is called * Amazon Prime * Downcast - Podcasting app for iOS / OS X. * Steam - games (barely use)
- alexgaribay 12y ago
  How well has Slack been for you as opposed to Hipchat or something similar?
  - adrianhoward 12y ago
    Fine - but, to be honest, we've been mostly co-located since we switched a week or two back from Hipchat and haven't been using it much. UI is a chunk uglier than Hipchat, integrations with stuff we use seem fine, but we've not really been using it in anger yet.
staticelf 12y ago
* MaskMe - $5 (recurring) * RailsCasts - $9 (recurring) * IntellijIdea - $200 * VPS service - $20 (recurring) That's why I pay for personal use.
nyddle 12y ago
Heroku Basecamp Ghost Github Skype
asamy 12y ago
http://www.clouddomain.co http://www.clouddomain.co for webhosting
jamesjguthrie 12y ago
That I can remember: Netflix Spotify, used to pay for it before they brought mobile to the free tier Xbox Live 115GB Google Drive and ~52GB Dropbox that I haven't started paying for yet Github student account that will expire next summer BiteSMS Probably more apps on iPad/iPhone.
k8si 12y ago
Recurring payments: Amazon Prime, Spotify, NearlyFreeSpeech and A Small Orange for hosting, planning to cancel Audible and Wolfram-Alpha because I never use them Paid for once: Threes, Clear, Convert (for all of my unit conversion needs) I use but don't pay for: Dropbox, IntellijIDEA, Sublime Text 2 I've also spent a shameful amount of money on Candy Crush...
fbueno 12y ago
Digital Ocean SiteApps Cloud at cost proxy4.us Appengine
b3b0p 12y ago
These are all gifts from friends and family, so I don't pay myself. They are all paid monthly though: Netflix Spotify Premium (Thanks mom!) Sirius XM (Thanks dad!) The only service I pay for personally is Amazon Prime. I have not bought any iOS Apps (ever). I have not bought any Mac Apps recently (this year). The occasional Blu-ray and Nintendo game.
kitwalker12 12y ago
Sounds like a great way to remember what I'm paying for and If I'm getting any value out of it. here's my list: * Transmit (FTP/S3) * Sublime Text 3 * HipChat (Team Communication/notifications) * Dreamhost (hosting) * Cloudfrount (caching) * Amazon AWS/S3 * Heroku * Codeship (CI) * Honeybadger (error monitoring) * MS Office for Mac * Crashplan (backup) * Steam (games) * Dropbox (pro for business) * Asana (project management) * Sprint.ly (project management) * Netflix * Amazon Prime
jorgecastillo 12y ago
DigitalOcean Wolfram Alpha You can't imagine how much value this services provide for me, they are worth every cent.
kinj28 12y ago
aws pipedrive activecampaign uservoice teamgum
clinth 12y ago
Cross-platform: Dropbox, Sublime Text, Toodledo, Balsamiq Mockups, Pinboard, Newsblur OSX: Alfred 2, Dash, Pixelmator, Clearview Win: ExpanDrive Other: Linode, Dreamhost (legacy) Funny enough, my home machine is Windows and I spend far more money on productivity tools for my work (OSX) machine. I'm not counting Steam.
Concours 12y ago
In no special order: Evernote FeedsAPI.ORG Professional Yesware.com Team DreamHost
binaryanomaly 12y ago
Services -------- Spotify DigitalOcean AWS Glacier Dropbox Evernote Mykolab.com Apps ---- 1Password aText Airmail Alfred Bartender (awesome!) Boxcryptor classic Boom Fantastical ForkLift OmniFocus 2 Parallels Sublime Text
Rudism 12y ago
I often revisit my recurring costs to pare the services I'm using down to the bare minimum. Here are the ones I can currently think of off the top of my head: Hosting/Email: Prgmr.com ($8/mo) AWS (~$0.60/mo) Hover.com (bunch of domains, ~$120/year) Fastmail.fm ($80/yr for 2 family users) Entertainment: Netflix ($8/mo) Hulu ($8/mo) Amazon Prime ($100/year) Spotify ($10/mo) Misc Apps/Services: Pinboard.in (~$9 one-time payment) Draftin.com ($36/year) Backblaze ($100/year for two pcs) Some that I have used in the past and since abandoned: - Pandora - Amazon Cloud Player - Google Music All Access - Easynews (NNTP) - Ghost.org
atmosx 12y ago
Well here is the list: Spotify (7 eur/month) VPS (12.50 eur/month0 flickr pro (40/year although I dont use it yet) Skype (subscription 6 eur/month, calling Greece landlines ulimited) Tarsnap (low amount, ~20 USD in 3-4 months.) That's the services. Now as for software I'm using a mac and use really a large mount of payware: - 1Passwd (both iOs/OSX versions) - iCompta (I didn't like v5 that's why didn't upgrade) - iWork suite (both iOs/OSX) - Littlesnitch (monitoring outgoing connections) - ExtFS for OSX (paragon) - iStats (display usage mac stats) - Acorn (simple photo editor, enough for me) - Alfred (application launcher) - SpamSieve (spam filtering) These are the ones I upgrade with each version, regularly. I had a budget about 45$/month on applications max. Now I don't spend that much anymore. As for donations, last one made for Wikipedia, very small one.. about 10 USD.
codingoutloud 12y ago
I'm a software consultant. These help me run my business: Freshbooks (invoicing - integrated with Toggl) Toggl (time tracking - integrated with Freshbooks) Dropbox (free doc management across many machines) OneDrive (free doc sharing - more business oriented than Dropbox) Evernote (free, used to be Premium, years of notes and ideas in here) OneNote (free, currently using to manage client notes) Highrise (free tier, currently using to track business prospects) Amazon Prime (fast delivery) Lastpass (password store in cloud) Any.DO (keep me organized - first sustainable todo app) Scanner Pro (iOS scanner app - so i could dump my old flatbed scanner) Google service for business email domain (I forget what they call it) WordPress.com (for my blog, paid tier to have custom domain blog.codingoutloud.com) Skype These help me stay sharp and up-to-date: Audible (app on iOS, books on tape) Podcasts (app on iOS) Pluralsight (video training on iOS and Surface and desktop) Meetup.com (I run a user group, bostonazure.org, and attend many) Coding: GitHub (code, mostly free, but use a few private repos at $7/m) Azure cloud (various storage, VMs, Websites, databases, ...) Sublime Text (programmer-friendly customizable editor) PyCharm (Python development environment) Fitness: Fitbit (paid for device, app came free)
bikamonki 12y ago
Can anyone write code to feed on this post and spill out stats (count) of each service/app? Thanks :)
- asaddhamani 12y ago
  This spreadsheet has data from all the current comments as of this moment. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z1mljWkxjTCoj5BfqW40VG4DOkBW3xMFmmEK5TQxqAE/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z1mljWkxjTCoj5BfqW40...

89 points by asaddhamani 12y ago

Can be exclusively paid apps/services or ones with a free tier available. Examples could be Pinboard, Instapaper, Zapier, PostHaven, Lastpass, anything really.

greenyoda 12y ago

FastMail, NewsBlur and Amazon Prime video.

philiphodgen 12y ago

Basecamp (2 accounts, soon to be 3), Base CRM, Google Apps, Lastpass, Instapaper, Google Apps (multiple), Quickbooks Online (multiple), an entirely disposable time billing program that plugs into Quickbooks that I won't name because I don't want to be sued for libel, Evernote, Crashplan. Edit: Feedly. Some of these will not survive the earthquake.

rzimmerman 12y ago

I use Sublime Text (and occasionally TextMate). It saves me time so I'm sure it's payed for itself already. I also use AWS for some personal hosting.

jonah 12y ago

Adobe Creative Suite, OmniGraffle, PaintCode, Sublime Text, Airfoil, Transmit, OfficeTime, GitHub, Rdio, Basecamp, Skype.

Bahamut 12y ago

Netflix, GitHub, Sublime Text, Amazon Prime + Music cloud, and Adobe Photoshop

Terpaholic 12y ago

Spotify, TimeDoctor, Google Ads, Reddit Ads, AWS, Guitar Tuner App

unsignedint 12y ago

Photoshop, Amazon Prime, Pixiv, Eijiro (an online Japanese dictionary), GitHub, Feedly, Blender Cloud (more of donation than service...) Google Music All-Access, Crunchyroll

d4mi3n 12y ago

Cinch, 1Password, Rdio, AWS, Hipchat, Zendesk

alex_duf 12y ago

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m0nastic 12y ago

Off the top of my head-- Services: Fastmail.fm (for personal email), Office365 (for more legitimate email), Evernote (had a paid account for a few years, although I never use it), 500px (for non-professional photos), DigitalOcean for VPS, Netflix (not sure if you mean consumer services), Amazon Prime (I only use it for the shipping), Hulu+ Apps (a subsection at least): Mathematica (I'm happy to pay for the Home version), 1Password (although I've stopped using it since iCloud Keychain Sync), Pixelmator, Capture One, NI Maschine, NI Tracktor, Pretty much every audio app for iOS (iMaschine, Figure, iKaossilator, iMS-20, SampleWiz, Lemur, Vogel CMI Pro, Animoog, Scape)

benguild 12y ago
You actually use iCloud Keychain? It's great for syncing Wi-Fi networks but it seems kind of clunky for anything else
- threeseed 12y ago
  I do and I've found it to work fine. It can autofill credit card numbers and passwords on my iPhone/iPad.
  - pooper 12y ago
    If I remember correctly even Steve Gibson, who sang praises of the Apple security apparatus saw the iCloud as a weak link in iOS security in his three part series (sn 446 through 448) on TWiT. Thoughts? https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0446/sn0446_h264m_1280x720_1872.mp4 https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0446/sn0446_h264m_1280x... https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0447/sn0447_h264m_1280x720_1872.mp4 https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0447/sn0447_h264m_1280x... https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0448/sn0448_h264m_1280x720_1872.mp4 https://twit.cachefly.net/video/sn/sn0448/sn0448_h264m_1280x...
    - m0nastic 12y ago
      I think products like 1Password, Keypass, Lastpass, etc. are a good idea, in that they're making it much easier to encourage a culture of strong, unique passwords for every application and website. Of those, I favor 1Password, because the people making it have a good track record of making generally good security implementations, and being receptive of feedback when issues are discovered. They've been good about updating the apps when an issue is discovered, and haven't made it a super regular occurrence. They also allow flexibility of storing the password database, which I prefer over the services that store your passwords with them, as you are now reliant on their own security implementations. If you want to, you can store it in dropbox, so that you can access the web-based version anywhere you can log into the Dropbox website. You're now putting an awful lot of faith in the security of Dropbox, but it's an option at least. But fundamentally, this is a problem which should be solved by the ecosystem providers. Windows, Mac OS X, Firefox syncing, Chrome (I assume Chrome has a way to sync passwords to wherever you're logged into, I don't use Chrome). I'm comfortable enough trusting Apple to secure all my login credentials that I'm willing to use the built-in functionality. Much like how I use "Reading List" instead of any of the "article saver applications". It works fairly well, I don't have to mess with it, I don't have to give my data to some other company, it just shows up in all my browsers on all of my devices.

hfern 12y ago

Cerberus [1] is a must have to keep phones safe. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.cerberus https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.ce...

dav- 12y ago

LastPass, Spotify, DigitalOcean, GitHub, Netflix, Amazon Prime

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georgebonnr 12y ago

Evernote Premium, and that's pretty much it. It has its flaws, but it's made a big difference as a catch-all brain bin for me.

jaxn 12y ago
Yes, Evernote Premium was the very first thing to come to mind. I also use RescueTime and OmniFocus. There are plenty of paid apps on my phone / tablet / computer, but those are ones that I would struggle to replace. The paid app I would love to get rid of: Quickbooks.
- benguild 12y ago
  It's interesting how so many people on here are instantly thinking "Evernote" when they think of paid online services. I think it's one of the few things that people are actually happy to pay for.
- notduncansmith 12y ago
  Have you found the paid experience with RescueTime to be worth it? I've been using it for free for a bit, and I feel like I get just enough data; it's hard to see what else I'd want from it.
  - jaxn 12y ago
    I have alerts set up to notify me when I have goofed off too much for one day. That feature alone is worth the premium fee for RescueTime.
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- bhahn 12y ago
  What don't you like about Quickbooks? Why not switch to something else?
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chops 12y ago

irccloud.com - For running a few open source projects, I find an always-on connection and getting instant mobile notifications to be totally worth the $5/month. Otherwise, for fun non-worky-type stuff: Netflix, Spotify, and Amazon Prime are the most prominent ones coming to mind.

hrabago 12y ago

The ones I actually use are AppCode, IntelliJ, Textastic, Medialoot, Creative Market, Sketch 2, Sketch 3. I'm still evaluating crash reporting/analytics services for iOS apps.

zomg 12y ago

off the top of my head: backblaze, rackspace email, ynab, mailmate, linode, todoist, divvy, jazzradio.com, amazon s3, 1password, alfred, newsblur, instapaper

kasperset 12y ago

Github,Posthaven,Pinboard,Flickr and Dropbox

AndrusAsumets 12y ago

sync.club [1], Gmail, Gdocs, Google Calendar, Gliffy, Videostream, Github, Dropbox, Amazon EC2, Photoshop, Skype [1] - http://sync.club/#electronicmusic http://sync.club/#electronicmusic

HeyLaughingBoy 12y ago

GitHub. I think I pay them the princely sum of $7/month for a few private repositories. And somehow I forgot Netflix, Xbox music and Xbox Live. Guess they just fade into the background.

asaddhamani 12y ago
Have you tried giving Bitbucket a try? They provide unlimited private repositories for free. Its not as easy to use as GitHub but it does the job.
- HeyLaughingBoy 12y ago
  Bitbucket is still around?

dalerus 12y ago

For work: Office365, Adobe Suite, GitHub, Deploy, Digital Ocean VPS, Treehouse, Evernote, Nozbe, Basecamp, Team Gantt, Skype, WP Engine, Dropbox Business Non-work: Rdio, Amazon Prime, Dropbox Personal, Lastpass

Gracana 12y ago

I have a Ramnode VPS. Also xbox live, I didn't think about that until someone mentioned it here. I share a netflix account with my roommate. I buy books from amazon and google for my android tablet. I don't own a smartphone, the plans are too expensive.

jmgtan 12y ago

Freshbooks, Github, PhpStorm, Sublime Text (for those quick python/node js applications), AWS Thinking if I should probably get Intellij since I've been doing a lot of Java these past few weeks.

thejosh 12y ago

note taking in the browser: evernote chat with phone notifications: irccloud.com hosting personal projects / testing things: digitalocean music: spotify (seriously, how I lived before spotify is a mystery)

crapshoot101 12y ago

Instapaper and Amazon Prime are primarily what comes to mind; though also will end up paying for Dropbox soon. Personally, Spotify, as well as Netflix.

w1ntermute 12y ago

Feral Hosting (seedbox) and Amazon Prime.

Ologn 12y ago

Linode, Rackspace, Namecheap, plus some legacy Dreamhost and Bluehost stuff.

daviddede 12y ago

Top of my list: Linode, Digital Ocean, Sucuri, CloudProxy, Balsamiq and Amazon Ec2.

lelandbatey 12y ago

Here's an estimate: Spotify Amazon Prime Netflix Lastpass Wolfram Alpha DigitalOcean Amazon EC2 OVH (Dedicated server) Sublime Text (not really an app, but I still count it)

FiloSottile 12y ago

Sorted by amount: Linode ($20/mo) Cloudflare ($20/mo) Freshbooks ($20/mo) DreamHost ($8.95/mo) GitHub ($7/mo) FastMail ($40/yr) Tarsnap (some bucks/mo) Pinboard ($25/yr) Amazon.it Prime (10€/yr) Instapaper ($12/yr) AWS (???) Gandi (???) 1Password ($50 + $18) Sublime Text 2 ($70) Dash ($20) Tweetbot And I love them all. Thanks for asking, it made for a good reflection on what I pay for, and what value I get.

Retric 12y ago
IMO, it's useful to look at reoccurring payments not as a minor drain, but cost over 30 years ignoring inflation/ROI. This is also about how much money you would need to invest to cover it indefinitely. So for example: Linode ($20/mo) + Cloudflare ($20/mo) + Freshbooks ($20/mo) + DreamHost ($8.95/mo) + GitHub ($7/mo) = 27,360$. Which could easily be worth it but just another way of looking at things.
cperciva 12y ago
what I pay for, and what value I get Out of curiosity: How much value do you get out of each of the above services? (Patrick, Thomas: Please don't turn this into a discussion about Tarsnap being underpriced. I'm asking because I want to hear FiloSottile's opinion about all the other services he uses.)
- FiloSottile 12y ago
  What I look for in a paid service, and what I get from these is a reliable, out-of-my-way, "premium" (I feel that the service is working to make things best for me) solution to _one_ problem I have, with good support that actually cares, if applicable. All of them will never misbehave, or make me think "did it work" or "how do I turn this off, it's annoying!". Usually, I don't have to learn much. _They are tools_. Linode gets me a box with a clear, clean, full-featured control panel, good specs and network, and every year or so, I'll magically get upgraded, so that I feel I'm always getting the best for my money (even if other services are cheaper). Problem solved: "I need a Ubuntu box". Cloudflare will cache my site -- making it faster for clients and lighter for me --, handle DNS and get me A+ TLS (and other services I don't actually use) at the turn of a button. Problem solved: "My site is slow" + SSL as a bonus. Freshbooks lets me track my time, invoices and payments with 0 learning curve, I'm busy working after all. Big colored buttons will tell me what to do, and if I can't still figure it out, support will do that for me. Problem solved: "I need to send clients invoices". DreamHost hosts anything, unlimited. Power-user friendly, I never thought "I wish they allowed/supported that". For small websites, obv. Problem solved: "I need to host this sites/domains/DNS/mailboxes for my clients". GitHub is how I'm trained to manage projects, for my private ones. PRs, Markdown, clear git views. Also, GitHub Pages is the best static hosting platform I ever used. Problem solved: "I need manage my project" + static hosting as a bonus. FastMail simply handles my mail. Mail is a horrible thing to deal with on your own, but I rely on it, so I want to pay for it. I get my domain with TLS delivery, a support line with devs, and nice power-user tools. It's fast, compatible, reliable and has a nice web interface, I don't need anything else. Problem solved: "I need to receive and send mail". Pinboard just saves my favorites, and lets me search through them when I need (full-text search). No useless social stuff on top of that. Also, it will store a copy of everything I bookmarked, so that it does not get lost. Problem solved: "I remember reading about that somewhere, let's look it up". Amazon.it Prime is just the free shipping part, it makes shopping oh-so-much-more enjoyable. Problem solved: "I want that item". Instapaper... well I don't actually NEED this one, but it's a nice way to read articles and they will store/index them for me once I read them (see Pinboard) and it's dirty cheap. AWS works. I have 25.000 req/min on my Heartbleed test API? Fine, spin up that Elastic Load Balancer in front of 15 of those EC2 machines, store logs in that S3 bucket, use that DynamoDB as cache. Or, I have this blockchain to analyze, let's spin up that 3 big EC2 machines. Problem solved: "I need to scale this service". Gandi sells me any domain for a reasonable price, without bugging me with those AwEs0m3 Features!!!1!!1 I could buy for just 9.99$. "No bullshit" indeed. (Maybe they should drop those web hosting offer emails, they are on the edge of annoying, but being plain text and one-off makes them bearable.) Problem solved: "I want that domain". 1Password stores and generates my passwords and identities safely, with a native easy-to-use interface that is not too intrusive. I used Lastpass for a while but I closed those ugly bars that screw up the page layout too many times, and they like HTML too much, the 1P native interface is much more smooth. Also, you can't trick 1Password to autocompile unless I trigger the hotkey, it feels safer. Problem solved: "These bloody password". Sublime Text is a nice editor with a good community, and I'm a programmer, I spend most of my time inside it, possibly making money. It's a no-brainer to get the best available. Also, it's easy to use to the unexperienced, and you can get fairly productive going on. Problem solved: "I want to write code, TODAY. And be faster tomorrow." Dash. Oh my God I <3 Dash. Can I pay it more? Double? 5 times more? Programming is looking up docs, some of us get entire vertical screens for that. Dash will get me any docs I want for any language (or Go package, since Beta!) with a single global hotkey and blazing fast fuzzy search. Did I mention "offline"!? I would not be programming on this airplane without it and it makes me much more fast and focused (since there is a separate space for docs, I get less distracted) in what I do every day. Problem solved: "How do I use that function again?" Tweetbot is Twitter done right: 140 characters, images. Simple gestures and good feedback; offline tweets. No fuss, just... tweets. If I have to waste time, at least let's do it efficiently! Finally, Tarsnap. Tarsnap makes archiving (I keep there old clients' data, too) and backing up data feel as if it was local, with the peace of mind of knowing that it's being compressed, deduplicated (I don't have to figure out what synchronized or incremental means, and I get to backup stuff as often as I want, yay!), replicated on the "cloud" (on S3 I mean) and encrypted at the state of the art, by open source code. Also, key management is so clean: printable text files, tiered permissions and no account management after key generation, I love that. Btw, yes I would pay some more for it, no I like the geek-to-geek feel even if I understand the business fuss, yes I'd LOVE auto-refilling, please take my money if I run low. And thanks for it! Did I address your question or did you mean something different? P.S. A problem I'd like to see solved by a single service (instead of HipChat+Hangout+Flowdock+IrcCloud+Skype+Viber) is "I need to chat/speak with this person (that might not use the service already) and I want indexed logs/recordings".

apaprocki 12y ago

Arq + Glacier, Parallels, 1Password, Ancestry + FTM, 23andme, FTDNA

moepstar 12y ago
Really, you enjoy paying for Parallels (over and over again)? That's one product i'm absolutely looking to get rid of - problem is lack of _suitable_ alternatives (i.e. comparable performance in 3D apps)...
- apaprocki 12y ago
  I don't mind paying a reasonable price for something that works very well and that I use every day. I used to use VirtualBox and after switching it is night-and-day difference.

cageface 12y ago

Sketch, Ableton Live, NI Komplete, Digital Ocean, Fastmail, Google Play Music All Access, JetBrains AppCode, Adobe CC (not for much longer)

pestaa 12y ago
Why are you cancelling CC?
- cageface 12y ago
  Sketch is good enough for my purposes and actually much better overall for my main use case which is producing bitmap images for mobile apps and web pages. Exporting assets out of CC, particularly at multiple resolutions, is a nightmare.

joelrunyon 12y ago

I'm not always intimately familiar with every app - so if you can include a brief description of what the app does - it'd be super helpful.

zuccs 12y ago

Off the top of my head... AWS, Linode, Rackspace, Spotify, 1Password, Sublime, Panic Transmit, Dropbox, DNSimple, Github, Harvest, Xero, Google Apps..

rahimnathwani 12y ago

I'm only listing the ones which come to mind immediately. There are others (particularly apps with one-off up-front payments) which I don't use regularly and turned out not to be important to me. One-off (paid or freemium): Pleco (Chinese dictionary with paid flashcard functionality) Groundwire (SIP client for iOS, including Push notifications) GoodReader (PDF reader and organizer for iOS) Pushover (trigger iOS push notifications from email, IFTTT etc.) MindNode (iOS mind-mapping) BubbleUPnp (Android DLNA server) SnappyCam Pro (iOS camera) Cycloramic Pro (iOS camera) Regular payments: Pandora (streaming radio) Several different virtual servers (for web apps and VPN) Newsblur (RSS reader) DIDLogic (monthly fee to get an inbound local phone number) The Economist (print subscription includes online/app access) Usage-based fees: Rebtel (outbound phone calls) DIDLogic (outbound phone calls)

arvin 12y ago

Google AppEngine, Amazon EC2

notduncansmith 12y ago

DigitalOcean (still on the trial but I'll be paying when it's up) Netflix Spotify AWS (at work) LastPass (at work) Alfred 2 Namecheap Dash Trello Destroy All Software (not an "app", but a fantastic purchase) --- The most valuable (in order) have been: Alfred 2 (easily worth 10x the price) Dash (would have paid double) DigitalOcean (simplest VPS I've ever worked with) DAS (still getting value out of this but loving it so far) Namecheap (great domain service, been with them for years and had 0 problems) I would cut Spotify but I have a visceral negative reaction to commercials. Can't stand em. I'd cut Netflix, but it's faster than torrenting and the time it saves me is worth it. This has been a really interesting thought exercise, thanks for posting this!

Sami_Lehtinen 12y ago

Hosting UpCloud probably DO or OVH later Domains NameCheap All software and services I'm using on mobile or on computer is free or self hosted.

Dejital 12y ago

Pinboard; bookmark management with archival Newsblur; RSS feed reader Spotify

tekknolagi 12y ago

DigitalOcean ($5/mo) Gandi.net ($200/yr) Tarsnap ($3/mo) CrashPlan ($6/mo)

palcu 12y ago

At home I've only bought apps for my Android: Remember the Milk (old school, but it's still alive), Sleep as Android, Digital Ocean, Lux Dash. At work: HipChat, Propane (client for Campfire), Sublime Text, Github.

hagope 12y ago

Anyone know a really easy way to get a list of all apps that I've purchased on both App store and Google play (and how much)?

cheald 12y ago
https://play.google.com/store/account https://play.google.com/store/account should give you your purchase history.

thedays 12y ago

Tuffmail (has been rock solid IMAP hosting provider for my personal email for over 7 years) | Sanebox (helps keep my email inbox under control) | Sugarsync (solid and reliable file sharing and backup. More flexible than Dropbox - can't understand why more people don't use it) |Mynetfone (good, reliable Australian VOIP provider) | Wordpress.com Namecheap | Netflix | Getflix | Spotify

dueprocess 12y ago

Deezer, Silvrback, Highrise (keeps me organized), Evernote, and several others I can't recall at the moment. If I was to pick a favorite, it'd be Deezer. I derive so much use and enjoyment from it. Huge value.

kdelwat 12y ago
What do you think makes Deezer better than other services like Spotify and Pandora?
- dueprocess 12y ago
  I can't use Spotify or Pandora because I'm in Canada.

adrianhoward 12y ago

Work: * Linode - for hosting * Namecheap - for domains * CrashPlan - for one layer of our backups (other layers are timemachine, dropbox, and disk imaging) * Pinboard for links. * Office 365 - because the £8 per month is worth it for dealing with the MS files that other people send us and expect edits on. No - OpenOffice isn't good enough at conversions. * Google Docs - for shared editing * Dropbox - for sharing files + another layer of backups * ScreenHero - for screen sharing * Slack - for chat * Trello - for organising everything * CloudApp - for random sharing of screenshots * Buffer - for social account organisation (suboptimal - but best of the bunch that I've played with.) * Until recently Adobe CS subscription, but our usage dropped so much we've swapped for Pixelmator & Sketch as an experiment... * Sublime Text 2 - editing on desktop * Editorial & Writeroom - writing on iPad & iPhone * OmniGraffle - wireframing, but very rarely used now * aText - text abbreviation expansion on OS X * Carbon Copy Cloner - backups * Air Display - so I can use the iPad as a second screen when I'm on the road * AntiRSI - reminds me to take screen breaks * Skype - conference calls * Transmit - [S]FTP client * TunnelBear - UK/US tunneling, useful when I'm not in UK for some foolish things Play: * Have a subscription to the excellent PseudoPod, EscapePod & PodCastle podcasts * SMBC comic patreon subscription * Whatever the amazon streaming video thing is called * Amazon Prime * Downcast - Podcasting app for iOS / OS X. * Steam - games (barely use)

alexgaribay 12y ago
How well has Slack been for you as opposed to Hipchat or something similar?
- adrianhoward 12y ago
  Fine - but, to be honest, we've been mostly co-located since we switched a week or two back from Hipchat and haven't been using it much. UI is a chunk uglier than Hipchat, integrations with stuff we use seem fine, but we've not really been using it in anger yet.

staticelf 12y ago

* MaskMe - $5 (recurring) * RailsCasts - $9 (recurring) * IntellijIdea - $200 * VPS service - $20 (recurring) That's why I pay for personal use.

nyddle 12y ago

Heroku Basecamp Ghost Github Skype

asamy 12y ago

http://www.clouddomain.co http://www.clouddomain.co for webhosting

jamesjguthrie 12y ago

That I can remember: Netflix Spotify, used to pay for it before they brought mobile to the free tier Xbox Live 115GB Google Drive and ~52GB Dropbox that I haven't started paying for yet Github student account that will expire next summer BiteSMS Probably more apps on iPad/iPhone.

k8si 12y ago

Recurring payments: Amazon Prime, Spotify, NearlyFreeSpeech and A Small Orange for hosting, planning to cancel Audible and Wolfram-Alpha because I never use them Paid for once: Threes, Clear, Convert (for all of my unit conversion needs) I use but don't pay for: Dropbox, IntellijIDEA, Sublime Text 2 I've also spent a shameful amount of money on Candy Crush...

fbueno 12y ago

Digital Ocean SiteApps Cloud at cost proxy4.us Appengine

b3b0p 12y ago

These are all gifts from friends and family, so I don't pay myself. They are all paid monthly though: Netflix Spotify Premium (Thanks mom!) Sirius XM (Thanks dad!) The only service I pay for personally is Amazon Prime. I have not bought any iOS Apps (ever). I have not bought any Mac Apps recently (this year). The occasional Blu-ray and Nintendo game.

kitwalker12 12y ago

Sounds like a great way to remember what I'm paying for and If I'm getting any value out of it. here's my list: * Transmit (FTP/S3) * Sublime Text 3 * HipChat (Team Communication/notifications) * Dreamhost (hosting) * Cloudfrount (caching) * Amazon AWS/S3 * Heroku * Codeship (CI) * Honeybadger (error monitoring) * MS Office for Mac * Crashplan (backup) * Steam (games) * Dropbox (pro for business) * Asana (project management) * Sprint.ly (project management) * Netflix * Amazon Prime

jorgecastillo 12y ago

DigitalOcean Wolfram Alpha You can't imagine how much value this services provide for me, they are worth every cent.

kinj28 12y ago

aws pipedrive activecampaign uservoice teamgum

clinth 12y ago

Cross-platform: Dropbox, Sublime Text, Toodledo, Balsamiq Mockups, Pinboard, Newsblur OSX: Alfred 2, Dash, Pixelmator, Clearview Win: ExpanDrive Other: Linode, Dreamhost (legacy) Funny enough, my home machine is Windows and I spend far more money on productivity tools for my work (OSX) machine. I'm not counting Steam.

Concours 12y ago

In no special order: Evernote FeedsAPI.ORG Professional Yesware.com Team DreamHost

binaryanomaly 12y ago

Services -------- Spotify DigitalOcean AWS Glacier Dropbox Evernote Mykolab.com Apps ---- 1Password aText Airmail Alfred Bartender (awesome!) Boxcryptor classic Boom Fantastical ForkLift OmniFocus 2 Parallels Sublime Text

Rudism 12y ago

I often revisit my recurring costs to pare the services I'm using down to the bare minimum. Here are the ones I can currently think of off the top of my head: Hosting/Email: Prgmr.com ($8/mo) AWS (~$0.60/mo) Hover.com (bunch of domains, ~$120/year) Fastmail.fm ($80/yr for 2 family users) Entertainment: Netflix ($8/mo) Hulu ($8/mo) Amazon Prime ($100/year) Spotify ($10/mo) Misc Apps/Services: Pinboard.in (~$9 one-time payment) Draftin.com ($36/year) Backblaze ($100/year for two pcs) Some that I have used in the past and since abandoned: - Pandora - Amazon Cloud Player - Google Music All Access - Easynews (NNTP) - Ghost.org

atmosx 12y ago

Well here is the list: Spotify (7 eur/month) VPS (12.50 eur/month0 flickr pro (40/year although I dont use it yet) Skype (subscription 6 eur/month, calling Greece landlines ulimited) Tarsnap (low amount, ~20 USD in 3-4 months.) That's the services. Now as for software I'm using a mac and use really a large mount of payware: - 1Passwd (both iOs/OSX versions) - iCompta (I didn't like v5 that's why didn't upgrade) - iWork suite (both iOs/OSX) - Littlesnitch (monitoring outgoing connections) - ExtFS for OSX (paragon) - iStats (display usage mac stats) - Acorn (simple photo editor, enough for me) - Alfred (application launcher) - SpamSieve (spam filtering) These are the ones I upgrade with each version, regularly. I had a budget about 45$/month on applications max. Now I don't spend that much anymore. As for donations, last one made for Wikipedia, very small one.. about 10 USD.

codingoutloud 12y ago

I'm a software consultant. These help me run my business: Freshbooks (invoicing - integrated with Toggl) Toggl (time tracking - integrated with Freshbooks) Dropbox (free doc management across many machines) OneDrive (free doc sharing - more business oriented than Dropbox) Evernote (free, used to be Premium, years of notes and ideas in here) OneNote (free, currently using to manage client notes) Highrise (free tier, currently using to track business prospects) Amazon Prime (fast delivery) Lastpass (password store in cloud) Any.DO (keep me organized - first sustainable todo app) Scanner Pro (iOS scanner app - so i could dump my old flatbed scanner) Google service for business email domain (I forget what they call it) WordPress.com (for my blog, paid tier to have custom domain blog.codingoutloud.com) Skype These help me stay sharp and up-to-date: Audible (app on iOS, books on tape) Podcasts (app on iOS) Pluralsight (video training on iOS and Surface and desktop) Meetup.com (I run a user group, bostonazure.org, and attend many) Coding: GitHub (code, mostly free, but use a few private repos at $7/m) Azure cloud (various storage, VMs, Websites, databases, ...) Sublime Text (programmer-friendly customizable editor) PyCharm (Python development environment) Fitness: Fitbit (paid for device, app came free)

bikamonki 12y ago

Can anyone write code to feed on this post and spill out stats (count) of each service/app? Thanks :)

asaddhamani 12y ago
This spreadsheet has data from all the current comments as of this moment. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z1mljWkxjTCoj5BfqW40VG4DOkBW3xMFmmEK5TQxqAE/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z1mljWkxjTCoj5BfqW40...