HACKER Q&A
📣 joe8756438

What software subscriptions do you pay for?


Most of my subscriptions relate to my software consulting business, but I think I would keep some even if I was an FTE at another company.

My subscriptions:

Github* YouTube Premium* Adobe CC* Kinopio.club* -- used for personal brainstorming and to support the developers work Freshbooks for invoicing Gusto Miro creating diagrams and presentations Google Gsuite or whatever it's called Slack

* Would keep outside consulting

Then there's stuff that's not strictly speak a subscription: AWS, DO, etc. I have an account with a bunch of infra providers

  👤 navjack27 Accepted Answer ✓
Just personally "software" wise:

YouTube premium (no ads and I get to support the content creators that I watch every day at a better ratio), Google one ($1), Microsoft 360 (1TB of OneDrive storage and the whole office suite that I use all the time and in my eyes is better than all of the previous versions)

I only pay for software if I make money using said software and right now I'm not making any money so I'm not paying for anything if I can help it.

👤 cwdegidio
Jetbrains, Notion, and YT Premium. I have a few hobby based subs, like Fantasy Grounds VTT for gaming. But I'm a bit over the subscriptions for everything model. I finally had enough and started canceling things such as my MS360 account. I'm sure more will be cancelled by the end of the year.
👤 patrogizmo
Top Ones:

- Github Copilot (pays for itself many times over in the time I save on mundane tasks).

- LinkedIn Premium (helps with outreach)

- Pandora (only because I still have most of my stations on it)

- Evernote

- Sketch

👤 hnthrowaway0328
Personally, none. Work-wise there are a lot including Office 365, Jetbrain products, Notion, Zoom, etc.
👤 mtmail
related two weeks ago "Ask HN: SaaS You Happily Pay For" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33525150
👤 smoldesu
I support two content creators on Patreon for $2/month.