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Ask HN: What software do you pay for monthly?

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ChatGPT, LinkedIn Premium (purchased at a 50% discount), Infinity for browsing Reddit on Android, Spotify, and YouTube Premium.

Among these, Spotify seems the least worthwhile to me. However, since YouTube Premium does the job and both are cheap, I keep subscriptions to both.

> LinkedIn Premium (purchased at a 50% discount)

How?

First I obtained the trial, for one month. At the end of the trial, I cancelled it. Then they were bombarding me that how good it is, please come back, but I did not react for a few weeks. Then, out of nowhere, they told me that if I re-subscribe again, they'll give me 50% discount for the first two months. I don't know if I will cancel it again at the end of the two months, I'll see.

UpNote, since I really want to support the developer (they also have a one time payment option) and hope this notes app will stick around.

Same here with Joplin through Joplin Cloud

I don’t pay monthly for any software - I pay a few bucks for cloud services, web hosting and data sync/backup.

None, but I do pay for a few services, including BackBlaze and 1and1 hosting.

One time I subscribed to office 365, but that's outside my budget now.

Software is like tools, you buy once, and use forever. OR shareware on the internet, ideally a binary distribution you can keep forever.

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. I have a personal license that I use for my side projects.

If you are in University or have an alumni email, you get their suite free fyi

Web hosting to host my vanity domain.

DabbleWriter because it's a great product for writers

Not paying for any software yet and in the future I'm looking to self-host

Professionally: Superhuman. $30 for email sounds like a lot but given I spent 2-3 hours answering emails, even 5-10% boost is worth it.

Personally: Whoop. Tracking sleep is something I've become quite obsessed about.

ChatGPT, server hosting (DigitalOcean) for a personal blog, Kagi Search

What does Kagi offer that is useful to you and Google doesn’t?

I just ended my one-month trial that cost $10. To be honest, I couldn't justify the price, so I'm going back to using Google or DuckDuckGo.

The search results are just better for my use case (technical, programming), niche web pages are surfaced more easily than the common SEO websites that flood Google's search results, the summary button at the top that lets me summarize the web pages in the results so I don't need to go hunting through each ones to find the answer, suppressing/encouraging certain sites from appearing in my results more often.

I use search tools a ton for my job, so anything that can help improve my efficiency is a great help.

For me it's privacy first and foremost, since you're paying for the product, you are not the product. It's a really great search engine that lets you blacklist websites from your results, promote websites to be higher on your results list and it has an AI search. $10 a month is nothing when i consider all the time i'm saving having my results instantly be customized to me instead of having to wade through Google's ads and SEO spam blogs

Cloudflare, Vercel, Apple One & Google One that's it.

How's Google One on Mac?

I'm using it only for iPhone & iPad.

vps (vpsfree.cz, hetzner), online tv, spotify, netflix. I will probably support more sites I use after I reach financial independence.

Nothing.

Fastmail and Tailscale with Mullvad VPN

No software, only a few services

Obsidian Sync, Mullvad.

Do you follow a particular methodology with your note taking ?

I may not be the best person to ask, but after countless tweaks, I’ve settled on using a single daily note to unload everything on my mind and then forget about it.

Honestly, not really any of it. My only real subscriptions (web hosting and domain name registration) are done on a yearly basis, and the one site with software I pay for is renewed on a 'when it's needed' basis (since the forum uses XenForo).

Monthly subscriptions just feel stressful for me, as does the idea of paying for something on a recurring basis in general.

Premiere Pro, it's worth it

- Todoist

- Spotify Premium

- Balance Meditation

- Canva Pro

- ChatGPT

Tutanota, Filen.io, Internxt

Bitwarden.

PurelyMail.

Protonmail, Notion, Railway

PIA VPN, Protonmail, Ngrok.

Curious question, why pay for Ngrok when so many free and open source alternatives exist? https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

ChatGPT and Mullvad VPN.

Workflowy. Raindrop.

Wow, didn't know Workflowy was still around! I loved it back in the day.

VPN, Notion, chatgpt

- google suite

- chatgpt

- midjourney

- vpn

- Adobe 10US$ dollar plan

- kagi

- fastmail

- code pilot

None, good capitalists will optimize their expenses down to $0, and I also expect others to pay for the software I make.

ChatGPT

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