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

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by asaddhamani • 12 years ago

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

greenyoda• 12 years ago

FastMail, NewsBlur and Amazon Prime video.

philiphodgen• 12 years 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• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

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

Bahamut• 12 years ago

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

Terpaholic• 12 years ago

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

unsignedint• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

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

alex_duf• 12 years ago

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m0nastic3• 12 years 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)

benguild2• 12 years ago

You actually use iCloud Keychain? It's great for syncing Wi-Fi networks but it seems kind of clunky for anything else

threeseed• 12 years ago

I do and I've found it to work fine.

It can autofill credit card numbers and passwords on my iPhone/iPad.

m0nastic3• 12 years ago

Yeah, for whatever reason I was constantly having the following problem in 1Password:

->Whenever I auto-generated a password in the browser extension, and submitted it, 1Password would occasionally (like 1 in 20 times, but often enough to be infuriating) lose the new password into the ether. Like it wouldn't be saved in the "recently-generated passwords" field in 1Password, or update the password field under the "Logins" entry.

So when I got a new laptop, like a month ago, I didn't even install 1Password, but the first time I'd go to any site, I'd manually look up and copy the password out of my backed-up 1Password web page, and then let Safari save the login in the keychain. Over time, I migrated all of my passwords into the Keychain, and now I also have access to them from within Safari on my iPhone and iPad (which having to previously open the 1Password app, unlock it, copy the password from the login, and then switch back to Safari and paste it in), was a pretty big win.

So I'm really happy with iCloud Keychain so far. It restricts my ability to log in to only Apple devices (which for now at least, isn't an issue for me), but I've found it a much better experience than using 1Password.

hfern• 12 years ago

Cerberus [1] is a must have to keep phones safe.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lsdroid.ce...

dav-• 12 years ago

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

georgebonnr• 12 years 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.

jaxn3• 12 years 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.

benguild2• 12 years 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.

notduncansmith2• 12 years 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.

bhahn• 12 years ago

What don't you like about Quickbooks? Why not switch to something else?

chops• 12 years 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• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

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

kasperset• 12 years ago

Github,Posthaven,Pinboard,Flickr and Dropbox

AndrusAsumets• 12 years ago

sync.club [1], Gmail, Gdocs, Google Calendar, Gliffy, Videostream, Github, Dropbox, Amazon EC2, Photoshop, Skype

[1] http://sync.club/#electronicmusic

HeyLaughingBoy2• 12 years 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.

asaddhamani2• 12 years 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.

HeyLaughingBoy2• 12 years ago

Bitbucket is still around?

dalerus• 12 years 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• 12 years 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• 12 years 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• 12 years 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• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Feral Hosting (seedbox) and Amazon Prime.

Ologn• 12 years ago

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

daviddede• 12 years ago

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

lelandbatey• 12 years 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)

FiloSottile2• 12 years 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• 12 years 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.

cperciva2• 12 years 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.)

FiloSottile2• 12 years 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".

apaprocki2• 12 years ago

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

moepstar• 12 years 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)...

apaprocki2• 12 years 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.

cageface2• 12 years ago

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

pestaa• 12 years ago

Why are you cancelling CC?

cageface2• 12 years 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• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

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

rahimnathwani• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Google AppEngine, Amazon EC2

notduncansmith2• 12 years 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)

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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• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Pinboard; bookmark management with archival

Newsblur; RSS feed reader

Spotify

tekknolagi• 12 years ago

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

palcu• 12 years 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• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

https://play.google.com/store/account should give you your purchase history.

thedays• 12 years 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

dueprocess2• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

What do you think makes Deezer better than other services like Spotify and Pandora?

dueprocess2• 12 years ago

I can't use Spotify or Pandora because I'm in Canada.

adrianhoward2• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

How well has Slack been for you as opposed to Hipchat or something similar?

adrianhoward2• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

* MaskMe - $5 (recurring) * RailsCasts - $9 (recurring) * IntellijIdea - $200 * VPS service - $20 (recurring)

That's why I pay for personal use.

nyddle• 12 years ago

Heroku Basecamp Ghost Github Skype

asamy• 12 years ago

http://www.clouddomain.co for webhosting

jamesjguthrie• 12 years 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• 12 years 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...

jorgecastillo• 12 years ago

DigitalOcean

Wolfram Alpha

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

kinj28• 12 years ago

aws pipedrive activecampaign uservoice teamgum

clinth• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

In no special order:

Evernote

FeedsAPI.ORG Professional

Yesware.com Team

DreamHost

fbueno• 12 years ago

Digital Ocean SiteApps Cloud at cost proxy4.us Appengine

b3b0p• 12 years 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• 12 years 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

binaryanomaly• 12 years 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• 12 years 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

codingoutloud• 12 years 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)

atmosx• 12 years 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.

bikamonki• 12 years ago

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

asaddhamani2• 12 years ago

This spreadsheet has data from all the current comments as of this moment.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1z1mljWkxjTCoj5BfqW40...

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