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Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life
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#12YNAB
Second to YNAB. I’m sad they’ve raised the price, but 99% of our budget and finance strife is gone due 100% to YNAB. Plus the deal to have free budgets for your older kids? Very nice.
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#13Piggybacking onto this thread, does anyone use software or any services for their parenting that they find invaluable? I imagine mentors and services like Kumon are popular with this crowd? How about the non-academic front?
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#14YNAB
I’ve never used this. Instead, the best thing my wife and I did was create a “bills” and “play” account. My recurring bills come out of the bills account and everything is paid automatically. My discretionary funds go in the “play” account and I feel free to spend that until it’s gone. This is handled with automatic deposits.
Later I added savings accounts to the list but the first two are the cornerstone of my budgeting.
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#15Todoist. My wife and I can share lists, assign tasks, track completion, all sorts of stuff. It’s not perfect, but I’m really mostly happy with it. Also, setting up an iCloud family. Most of the sharing stuff we can do can be done without being in a family unit, but it makes it that much easier since it makes assumptions about who I wish to share with. From there, native Notes, Calendar, all that stuff has made our li…
1Password family has been hard to get everyone on… one or two people yes, but not the entire family.
YouTube Premium is probably the only thing everyone in the family uses significantly and frequently… but mostly because they don’t notice it. Netflix, Disney+ maybe go without saying. Alexa/Google/HomePods too, mostly for music playback. Spotify Premium has excellent family features also.
Background but storage from Google One, Apple and Microsoft Office are also frequently used and relied on.
For me the hardest part is actually telling family what they could have access to - I wish there was something like https://duo.com/assets/img/leadin-images/sso_leadin_img.jpg but included all the content, apps and subscriptions we share, regardless of service provider. Whatever it is, it has to have tight integration with mobile and desktop computers so I and others can push notifications like, “Amy just signed up for NYTimes, add a shortcut and saved password?” Or a banner appears or customized Kagi results that could say, “Listen on Spotify,” if that’s what we have signed up for would be nice.
I’m thinking it might work like Apple’s notifications for health and/or activity sharing, where you get to see what others do, but instead you get to see what you have access to via the family, etc.
I tried setting up enterprise style accounts and domains and even a Google Site for this purpose and it went nowhere. Everyone already has logins and identities and half the problem is no one wants to visit “yet another website” just to find out what’s new. I haven’t tried making an app with push notifications and installing it on everyone’s devices with a web browser extension, but I also have to admit, I’m tempted to develop such a thing. Might also be useful for very small startups, etc.
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#16back in the day I had to buy a GPS software for my "smart phone", more like a palm with phone capabilities. A HTC model with windows 7 (i guess). Was the first time I felt confident in driving cross state by myself.
The whole time I was think "this thing can predict the future" cause I could see sharp turns and straight roads before hand. Simpler times...
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#17Spotify Duo. Works across all the variety of devices we have, jam group sessions are fantastic feature when riding the car together and their weekly discovery consistently brings in a lot of new music.
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#18Not family wide but very personal: MacroFactor. It healed my relationship with food, and helped me lose 60 lbs. Worth every penny ($12/month subscription).
MacroFactor is where it’s at. It is so much better than MyFitnessPal.
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#19Todoist. My wife and I can share lists, assign tasks, track completion, all sorts of stuff. It’s not perfect, but I’m really mostly happy with it. Also, setting up an iCloud family. Most of the sharing stuff we can do can be done without being in a family unit, but it makes it that much easier since it makes assumptions about who I wish to share with. From there, native Notes, Calendar, all that stuff has made our li…
1Password family has been hard to get everyone on… one or two people yes, but not the entire family. YouTube Premium is probably the only thing everyone in the family uses significantly and frequently… but mostly because they don’t notice it. Netflix, Disney+ maybe go without saying. Alexa/Google/HomePods too, mostly for music playback. Spotify Premium has excellent family features also. Background but storage from G…
Oh I should add that iMessage, if you can get the whole family on it, is killer for maintaining group chats. Really though, just having a group chat with the entire family on it is great. Especially if the app has Find My features where you can see where folks are. For the youngest tho, we use Facebook Messenger for Kids on Amazon fire tablets if they want to join in on video calls etc. Sadly there isn’t an all-in-one service that is also very child-friendly (and Fire tablet compatible to be kid proof)
Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life
#20Todoist. My wife and I can share lists, assign tasks, track completion, all sorts of stuff. It’s not perfect, but I’m really mostly happy with it. Also, setting up an iCloud family. Most of the sharing stuff we can do can be done without being in a family unit, but it makes it that much easier since it makes assumptions about who I wish to share with. From there, native Notes, Calendar, all that stuff has made our li…
1Password family has been hard to get everyone on… one or two people yes, but not the entire family. YouTube Premium is probably the only thing everyone in the family uses significantly and frequently… but mostly because they don’t notice it. Netflix, Disney+ maybe go without saying. Alexa/Google/HomePods too, mostly for music playback. Spotify Premium has excellent family features also. Background but storage from G…
1Password family has been a game changer for me. Just for sharing secure data with my partner who used to use the same 6 letter password on every site, life changing. It’s also been a great tool to teach my teenage kids good security habits while also building trust. It also sparks conversations when a website inevitably gets compromised and why it’s important to have unique passwords per site and they’ve actually been pretty good about using it too.