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Ask HN: For those that are developers what are your favorite brands/products?

Specifically, what products/services leave you feeling delighted. Also, what about those products/services is most delightful?

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LEGO. I'd say on average developers/engineers like LEGO more than non developers.

I'm a sucker for furniture that I can take apart and put together again. There's German brand (http://www.floetotto.de/en/products/profilsystem/) who make the same product line since 30+ years. Impressive resell value on ebay, I bought 20 year old spare parts. Same for http://baltonliving.de/baltonbroschuere_e.pdf and some product lines of IKEA (less durable). Maybe it's the adult version of LEGO?

Linux, docker, emacs, GCC, golang, PostgreSQL. They are the best in class tools, making me much more productive and interested in software than any paid product ever could. They are free, as in beer.

I love Airbnb - simple, straightforward and easy to use. Their app on the iPad needs some work though, but other than that their design is quite simple and easy to follow. Their customer support is awesome - the other day I had asked my renter to check if there was a key and she didn't find any. A few weeks later, when she found it, airbnb immediately reached out to me to let me know something was up.

Thanks the the initial feedback. Let me clarify one thing. I am more interested in the services/tools that you use as developers during the development process. I'm just trying to get an idea of what companies/brands are doing a good job at capturing the developer community.

Most of the good stuff is free. The only paid for software I'm using is Sublime.

Sorry, forgot about Total Commander.

Resharper (plugin for Visual Studio), I barely know how to use it, but it already makes me miles more productive with VS

Warhammer (both 40k and AoS). I'm literally powerless against it.

beer - most types and brands

As a front end engineer, I fell in love with Slack first time I used it. The UI is well crafted. Those buttons & their states...

I love how Ask HN has turned into a place to take surveys.

In the last day you have complained about HN four times. I'd prefer to read real answers over snarky comments. 'Ask HN' was always a mix of good and bad/weird questions.

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