Dev productivity tools you would pay for

Git fork: https://git-fork.com/

Best git client i’ve tried, even though i hate it’s tabbing system.

RemedyBG: https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg

Excellent debugger for Windows.

Sublime Text: To this day I have not found any text editor that works better than this. 100% worth the money

I pay for

- ChatGPT

- proxyman.io (Debugging Proxy - life safer for development!)

- CleanShot (screenshots, screen recordings)

- PixelSnap (measuring distances, rectangles on desktop...)

- Little Snitch (Firewall but also good for network debugging, e.g. turn off network for specific app)

I donate to

- zig language (not using at the moment but looks really nice!)

- lunarvim (ready to use neovim configuration)

- neovim

- brew

- Asahi linux (linux for apple silicon)

- Minisim (menubar tool to lunch android emulators and iOS simulators)

Kagi Search search engine. Unless I’m doing “food near me” type searches, Kagi is 100x better than the garbage heap Google is now. Then Jetbrains. Then one of the ProtonMail subscriptions although I only use the mail and sometimes the VPN for streaming. I still use gmail too mostly for junk mail/signups/loyalty programs but I wanted to support an email service that’s not Google and Fastmail wasn’t doing it for me.

Beyond that, if I want cloud stuff I usually am going to put it on DigitalOcean.

I received a Kinesis keyboard in the mail today - maybe not what OP had in mind but my hand issues were to the point of contemplating leaving computer work. Not sure how much it’ll change with the new keyboard - but my response is ergonomics.

I would add,

Obsidian https://obsidian.md/

to that list.

PHP Intellisense Extension for VSCode (10€ once)

DBeaver database mgmt 12€/mth (with intermissions)

github copilot 10€/month

NimbusNotes 40€/year

Cloud Platform (GCP), various services up to 60€, with intermissions

Youtube Premium 10€month

various MOOC and learning platforms

donations to Wikipedia when they're campaigning (with intermissions)

some fun services (streaming)

ChatGPT Plus - 20$/mo

Myriad of servers/cloud services - > 999$/mo

SetApp (Multiple apps in one) -> 9.99$/mo

Using these apps:

- RapidAPI (API Testing)

- Forklift (Multi-tab explorer)

- Dropshare (Screen recording)

- Mate Translate (Translation tool)

- CodeRunner (Code playground)

- SQLPro Studio (Database manager)

- Hype (HTML5 animations editor)

- Prizmo (OCR scanner)

- Ulysses (Writing)

- MindNode (Brainstorming/mindmaps)

- HazeOver (Focused windows)

- Renamer (Batch renamer)

- Boom3D (Volume controller/EQ)

- Canary Mail (E-mail client)

- Coherence X (Create isolated Chrome apps)

Been using SetApp for years, since paying the yearly upgrade for the apps would cost much more in total.

Note taking app (logseq), I pay for that even though it's open source and free (and I don't really need paid features)

Many of productivity tools I use are free (and not always related to dev, but as a side effect, increase my development productivity as well):

* a big monitor (switching from 13" to 27" definitely had an impact)

* https://www.raycast.com/ has the biggest impact to my productivity. So much good stuff there! Just one example is resizing windows with keyboard. Good old https://www.alfredapp.com/ is another option;

* https://devdocs.io/ to look up docs;

* https://www.tldraw.com/ for temporary sketches, wireframes, etc.

* while I'm here: in my experience, one-time purchase from https://serif.com/ is a great alternative to Creative Cloud.

* https://tableplus.com/ for database access

* https://bear.app/ for notes

* Skitch for screenshots and markup

* Dash for easy docs

* Easy CSV Editor (https://vdt-labs.com/easy-csv-editor/) for just editing a CSV file without loading a whole spreadsheet app.

* VSCode, Sublime, zsh, iTerm, Proxmox

If on a Mac, most of mine have been mentioned...

I would add Better Touch Tool. I use it to launch apps and trigger actions in apps from a global context. I things mapped to the function keys and also presses on areas of the Trackpad. So for example, regardless of what app I'm using at the time, f19 will pop a new iterm window on my monitor that has focus. Ctrl and a numpad key will set the brightness of the monitor I'm using in 10% increments. Pressing (not touching) the top left or right corner of my Magic Trackpad will seek a few seconds backwards or forwards in Spotify. It's useful to control other apps without switching focus from the current app. I've looked into window snapping areas with it which are powerful, but I currently have it set up where a four finger swipe on the Trackpad sends the current window to the left or right half of the current monitor. I was planning something more elaborate, but it's become a reflex now.

Alfred to launch apps by just typing the first few characters. I try to keep my fingers on the keys as often as possible.

Jettison is good for ejecting and remounting removable disks when I put the machine in and out of sleep.

I use an open source utility to limit battery charge level as my MBP is always hooked up to a dock these days.

If you're using git - git-fork.com is an excellent git client for Osx And Windows

I payed for Typora (a Markdown editor). The price is very reasonable and fair and the product and support is very good. This is the only tool I ever payed for. I do support OSs initiatives through donations.

If you work with Postgres a lot I'd recommend Postico. It's not a necessity but I've found it to make me much more productive and worth the cost.

Wallaby.js is so nice for instant as you type evaluation of unit tests. Its magical and improves my productivity immensely.

Vitamin R is a great hack for the ADHD brain.

Very few.

I bought Sublime Text + Merge. They're the backbone of my computer work.

I pay 10€ per month for Wachete. I get notified when German laws and policies change, so that I can keep my own website up to date. It's a great time saver.

I pay for Spotify, to make work a little more pleasant. YouTube Music gets me better though.

That's it!

GitHub Copilot is the only one that comes to mind.

iTerm 2, basic Creative Cloud even though I rarely use it, MDN.

I'm transitioning from Sublime to VSCode but I'll probably pay for future versions of Sublime because I really like it.

I will probably pay for ChatGPT. I don't think it's super useful yet but if it saves me just a few minutes a month that's worth $10 to me easy.

Kaleidoscope is my go-to merge tool kinda surprised I didn’t see it mentioned yet. http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/

i pay a yearly sub for jetbrains (very good), but i would pay more for a modern version of visual c++ 6.0 - so fast, so simple to use, even back when. visual studio (although impressive) is just too fat for me and, along with jb a bit too slow.

Tool to remove stupid middle managers and redistribute their paychecks.

Github Copilot and, depending on the team, also Miro might be useful.

Sublime Text, a great keyboard and monitor and desk chair

You already mentioned JetBrains, but more specifically I happily pay for Resharper for C# and C++, it’s such a productivity boost if you’re using Visual Studio.

- twitch turbo. good background while coding.

- aws. ec2 spot and lambda are great for getting a lot of compute for a little while with fine granularity billing.

Once the price is down enough GPT-4 32K+autoGPT running directly on our codebase+running unit tests and creating new ones

ChatGPT, GitHub CoPilot, I may need to pay for ngrok soon (interacting with Meta APIs and their webhooks...).

CSS Pro: https://csspro.com/

* Github Copilot

* ChatGPT

The other tools I use (VSCode, ...) are free

What’s making you pay for the subscription version of ChatGPT, compared to the free one?

- GitHub

- GitHub copilot

- ChatGPT

- Mathpix (LaTeX OCR)

- Language tool (multilingual grammar checker)

- Neovim

- Weight and bias (monitoring tools for machine learning models)

I pay for computer, internet, electricity and paper books.

zsh, nvim, fzf -- These things drive my daily everything. I'd pay if that wasn't all FOSS.

Pixelmator Pro for Photoshop tasks

Beyond Compare

I use my own product SnipCSS all the time: https://www.snipcss.com

I also pay for BrowserStack, Browserless and ChatGPT