What SaaS or Apps are you paying for?
I am curious to know what saas or apps are HN user's paying out of their own pocket for? Not business apps, but for your own personal use.
Personally, I pay for feedly (rss reader), G Suite domain (for my personal email), todoist premium (task/to do app). Not an app, but I pay for the Wall Street Journal.
It's been nearly 2 years since I ask this question so I thought it would be good to get an update.
Actually, I don't pay for hardly any SaaS or Apps. Microsoft Office is the only exception, and the only thing I really need there is OneNote. (I use Word and Excel, but only because I've already paid for them to get OneNote - neither is essential.) Other than that, the only thing I pay for is storage for backups in S3. I also have a recent copy of CorelDraw Suite, but they've gone subscription now, so I'll have to find an alternative. Other than those, it's all open source.
Apps: Netflix, Notability, MindNode (discontinued), Memrise (discontinued)
IaaS/ PaaS/ SaaS: Digital Ocean for VPS, Stripe for subscription billing, GoDaddy for domains, Dropbox for online storage and file sharing, Google Voice for phone number porting.
Recently, I have been thinking about setting up a blog based site, not sure whether to setup my own on DigitalOcean or go with something like Wordpress.com. I just see too many attempts of WP exploits on my non-WP site, and haven’t come across any decent non-WP based blog driven site CMS.
Nothing that needs recurring payments. If I cannot find a suitable program, generally I will try to write it by myself instead. Also even with proprietary programs I have already paid for, I will try to make a free software which is better.
Setapp, Evernote, Textexpander, Cloud storage for backups, Magzter (magazines), and couple of financial services in India.
1Password. It's $4/mo, which (forgive me for sounding privileged) is nothing, and it works well across all devices.
HEY, Netflix, Disney+, Dropbox, iCloud, Todist (won't subscribe to another year when it is up)
Screenflow has paid for itself multiple times over- business use, personal use... I use it easily 5 to 10 times a week.
I forgot about password managers: I do pay for one; but I also use the built in keychain password manager
Netflix, Emby, DigitalOcean/Vultr, Spotify, Amazon Prime, GDrive, iCloud, and a few domains.
Hulu, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon Prime, GSuite, Notion (now free), HEY, YNAB, and Bitwarden.
lastpass, although I am looking for a better alternative,
Office365
Adobe photoshop and lightroom
I am also paying for todoist and newsblur, although I moved to newsboat and will probably have to find another task manager. Maybe I will just use org-mode.
lastpass;
office 365;
fastmail;
digital ocean;
wallabag.it;
you need a budget;
twilio & spaghetti detective for 3d printing notifications;
backblaze;
lastpass
bunch of aws services (s3 for file storage, some r53 domains, some resources backing alexa skills my family uses)
twilio for an sms bot
washington post sub (thinking about picking up wsj and economist)
robokiller
1Password, Spotify, Netflix, Stoa Meditation
Google storage. Dropbox. Dashlane. Netflix.