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Ask HN: What services and software do you pay for?

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This covers either business (e.g., AWS, Facebook ads, Bitbucket) or personal (e.g., Uber, Instacart, Netflix). If possible, please try to list the product not the category (e.g., AWS, not hosting).

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Software:

  - Adobe Creative Cloud
  - Textmate
  - CSSEdit (Great CSS editor - sadly discontinued)
  - Macupdate Desktop (simple mac app updates)
  - 1Password (Password management)
  - CloudPull (offline Google Apps backups)
  - DaiseyDisk (visualize disk space)
  - DiskWarrior (Mac disk repair)
  - ScannerZ (Mac disk testing)
  - GitBox (simple Git front end)
  - Transmit (FTP)
  - TotalFinder (Mac Finder Enhancements)
  - BetterSnapTool (semi-tiling window manager)
  - ServeToMe (personal media streaming with adaptive bitrates)
  - Find Any File (advanced file searches)
  - LaunchControl (launchd(8) service creation and editing)
  - A Better Finder Rename (good for batch renaming and modifications)

Services:

  - Netflix
  - Tunnelbear
  - GoDaddy
  - 10dollar.ca
  - Dreamhost
  - Openshift
  - Dropbox
  - Audible

Just for personal use, and I'm not exactly a hacker either:

  Webtropia - Server hosting
  Gandi & OVH - Domains
  Dxtory - DirectX/OpenGL capture (one time)

I also have a free student account on Github, plus $100 credit on Digital Ocean I should use. Mostly I use free/open source software though (Photoshop CS2 worth a mention?).

Business: Digital Ocean (VPS), GoDaddy (Domain Name), Namecheap (SSL), PhpStorm (PHP IDE), PyCharm (Python IDE), Sublime Text 2 (Text Editor), Balsamiq (Mockups), Tableau (Visualization), Dropbox (storage), Stripe (Payment), Paypal (Payment)

Personal: Netflix (Movies and TV Series)

I'm a cheap guy, just pay:

- iwantmyname for domains, a suckless register

- digital ocean for testing (vps)

- chicagovps.net for long term services (vps)

- pagekite, localhost for the world

I'm not very technical but why do you need to use pagekite instead of something like ngrok, which offers fairly good functionality when registered, for free?

Off the top of my head for business:

- Shopify

- Xero (accounting)

- Stitch Labs (Inventory/integration)

- Slack

- Shipping Easy

- AWS

- Adobe Creative Cloud

- CrossWorks for ARM

- EAGLE PCB (PCB layout - the real good stuff is all 10k a seat)

- Dropbox

Personal:

- Tivo

- Netflix

- Crashplan

- Dropbox

The better question might be what would you buy given more resources.

* New Relic - Server Monitoring

* Canvas by Instructure - Learning Management System

Business:

* New Relic

* Rackspace VPS, CDN

* CrashPlan

* Amazon S3

Personal:

* Sublime

* Digital Ocean VPS

* Experimental VPS's from Cloud Shards, BlueVM, etc (whoever is cheap at the time I'm looking)

* Hulu Plus

* Amazon Prime

Business:

Linode

Github

Hoovers

Google Apps

Mixergy

Safari

Amazon AWS

why linode & aws?

We use Linode for infrastructure - our website, our CRM system, demo servers, wiki, etc. AWS is just for R&D, temporary demos, etc.

Also, I forgot:

Domain names: a combination of Godaddy, Namecheap and Gandi. I may even have one old domain still with register.com, I really don't even remember.

zapier, github

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