HACKER Q&A
📣 mbm

What software do you pay for monthly?


What software do you pay for monthly?


  👤 jakabia Accepted Answer ✓
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.


👤 HansTheOne
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.

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

👤 mikewarot
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.


👤 throwaway_1987
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. I have a personal license that I use for my side projects.

👤 johannesrexx
Web hosting to host my vanity domain.

DabbleWriter because it's a great product for writers


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

👤 dnlkwk
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.


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

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

👤 lucas03
vps (vpsfree.cz, hetzner), online tv, spotify, netflix. I will probably support more sites I use after I reach financial independence.

👤 marssaxman
Nothing.

👤 BrittonR
Fastmail and Tailscale with Mullvad VPN

👤 KomoD
No software, only a few services

👤 BOOSTERHIDROGEN
Obsidian Sync, Mullvad.

👤 CM30
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.


👤 FoxYolkYT
Premiere Pro, it's worth it

👤 srbhr
- Todoist

- Spotify Premium

- Balance Meditation

- Canva Pro

- ChatGPT


👤 dotcoma
Tutanota, Filen.io, Internxt

👤 mkbkn
Bitwarden.

PurelyMail.


👤 superkimchi
Protonmail, Notion, Railway

👤 ActorNightly
PIA VPN, Protonmail, Ngrok.

👤 world2vec
ChatGPT and Mullvad VPN.

👤 Tomte
Workflowy. Raindrop.

👤 flagsbskdb
VPN, Notion, chatgpt

👤 koevet
- google suite

- chatgpt

- midjourney

- vpn

- Adobe 10US$ dollar plan

- kagi

- fastmail

- code pilot


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

👤 gardenhedge
ChatGPT