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Ask HN: What subscription services are worth their price?

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I've come to use (and love) several subscriptions that I believe are well worth their price.

My list:

Dropbox

1Password

Cloak VPN

Newton Email

SmugMug

Amazon Prime

Lapham's Quarterly

Do you have any you'd like to share? Software, print, lifestyle, household-- doesn't matter. :)

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Digitally Imported (http://www.di.fm/) no affiliation, just happy customer

I am happy with the cheapest ssd vps option from OVH - I run debian with few low traffic websites and so far it works great.

I have also recently switched from Adobe Creative Photography plan to Zoner Photo Studio - for about 1/4 of the price (it has the same functionality as Lightroom and I wasn't using Photoshop anyway)

Spotify and Amazon Prime for me! I love the ability to have my music with me all of the time and Spotify's interface, and Amazon Prime pays for itself in free shipping - my family loves their content!

Safari Books online, Netflix, Google Play Music, Amazon Prime

I am gonna sound trite. But here goes nothing. LiveForm (https://liveformhq.com/) is a service which allows you to setup form endpoints with reCAPTCHA and a ton of other things (including file uploads). And, it costs $3 per month. Full Disclosure: I built it.

Also, Google Drive.

Amazon Prime and Costco for me. I have the executive membership at Costco, which basically pays for itself with the annual 2% reward on purchases.

Online -

Dropbox

Amazon Prime (trying Google Express right now)

Netflix

$5 VPS on DO for small projects

Google Apps for a couple of domains, mainly for email

Straight Talk, 2 lines

Offline -

Sam's Club (no Costco up here)

Beach parking permit

Children's Museum (go with the ACM Passport level membership if your local one is part of this association, you get benefits when visiting member museums in other cities)

Disney Vacation Club

Citi Prestige Mastercard (has some benefits going away, but a great card for travel benefits and insurance)

Google Drive (especially to expand Gmail storage)

https://cronitor.io - Helps me sleep.

Brazzers

Spotify

Apple Music, Hulu, MLS Live (American professional soccer), NFL Sunday Ticket (American professional football), Twitch (I subscribe to several streamers I like).

Does anyone have suggestions for a VPN (Is Cloak pretty good?)

Also I have never heard of Lapham's Quarterly - any reviews on that?

F-Secure Freedome

Dropbox, Netflix, Costco, Memrise (language learning app) are the only paid subscriptions I use.

Dropbox, 1Password, Spotify, couple of content creators on patreon

Spotify, 1password, netflix, google drive

Cloudron.io (amazing for self hosting)

Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, PSN

Spotify, Amazon Prime, NY Times

Pluralsight

Netflix, Amazon prime

Laracasts, netflicks

Prime, GitHub

Dropbox

RescueTime

Ynab

As a marketing consultant:

Zapier

Microsoft Office

Zapier

Photoshop

Zapier

ActiveCampaign

Xero

UberConference

Zapier

Zapier is indeed handy! (as is ActiveCampaign) I'm currently building email marketing software. Is there anything that's surprisingly frustrating about the existing email marketing companies? What do you wish was different, apart from the price?

They meet my needs, honestly.

I've always been surprised that so few business professionals take advantage of Zapier. Online marketing consultants seem to be among the few professional groups to have latched on to all that Zapier has to offer.

I know so many small business owners who do some amount of online work who could save so much time by using Zapier, but they typically seem uninterested. It's a shame Zapier doesn't offer any type of affiliate/partnership programs or I'd try to find some way to show business professionals how to save massive time by automating with Zapiers.

C9.io

Has the service changed post acquisition? I was under the impression Amazon was going to fade it into their own product line e.g. as an editor for Lambda.

I haven't notice anything, I think they were not using AWS before acquisition. it makes sense if they moved their clouds to AWS. but their service was up and I didn't notice anything.

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