HACKER Q&A
📣 jerrygoyal

Which SaaS apps do you pay for personal use?


I'm curious which SaaS apps are people paying for personal use.

I'll go first, I use Notion personal pro account ($4/mo) to get access of page version history. I use Ticktick (todo list app) premium account (25$/yr) because it is more feature-rich than other todo apps and works smoothly on my android device.

  👤 ryan-duve Accepted Answer ✓
The only recurring software payments I am comfortable with are for content companies like Netflix and Spotify. That's because I feel like I am getting a better deal continuously buying temporary access to a universe of content than permanently buying just a handful of things for the same dollar. I am prepared to let go of all that content when I eventually discontinue service.

I am very uncomfortable with a recurring payment for software, because I tend to adopt and keep the same workflows for a long time. I prefer free software because I don't have to worry about some parent entity suddenly making a later version incompatible with my current version (if that happens, someone could just fork it, e.g., MariaDB).

I have considered home security SaaS, like Ring or something, but I feel conflicted about the tradeoffs around superior security and privacy concerns.

👤 jmercouris
None. I don't use any and have never felt I should subscribe to a Saas.
👤 geoah
Notion, raindrop, habitify, plex, gsuite, github.