Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by lacker » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

Child care is thousands of dollars a month, everything else pales in comparison....

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

#62

Post by archontes » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 3:29 PM UTC

Altium Designer costs ~$10,000

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by ehsanullaho743 » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 3:35 PM UTC

not bad

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by recov » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 3:55 PM UTC

Tech wise not a lot

- $5 droplet in DO hosting multiple apps

- $12 yearly domain name

- ~$200 A few one off tool purchases this year

Luxury wise

- ~$70 a month on streaming

Recurring charges are something I try to keep as low and as few as possible.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by wreath » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

sawmurai wrote: post #50

Converted to USD, approx: 1. Health insurance 440 USD/mo 2. 280 USD/mo for the membership at barbelllogic online coaching 3. root server 70 USD/mo

Hello there fellow BLOC-family member :)

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by bhu1st » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 4:19 PM UTC

Converted to approx dollar:-

Internet - $150/yr

Domains - $200/yr

Reseller Shared Web Hosting- $300/yr

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by ecedeno » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 4:24 PM UTC

hansor wrote: post #33

Zero! Monthly subscriptions are waste of money, and whole SaaS is IMHO wrong step in human evolution. I prefer to have my stuff for free or own stuff. My free stack: - Comms: Free "work" phone with unlimited everything, and free unlimited LTE/5G "work" modem. - Music: Free Tidal from work + my own ripped MP3s. - Software hacking: free virtual machines running at Oracle Cloud(and some services at IBM cloud). - IDE: In…

Out of all the things you mentioned, a political party membership is the only one I wouldn't pay for. May I ask what value you get out of being a paid member?

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by LordHeini » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 4:25 PM UTC

virtualpain wrote: post #37

$8500+ a month for Google Map API, we opted for developing our own local places database now

We have a similar problem.

Care to explain how you replaced Google?

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

lacker wrote: post #61

Child care is thousands of dollars a month, everything else pales in comparison....

For anyone reading, my vasectomy was fully covered by insurance. No kids.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by iyn » Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

amosson wrote: post #12

erikrothoff wrote: post #7

Servers at DigitalOcean $2500 per month. Paypal: Our last transfer to our bank account cost $1000 because PayPal takes a currency conversion fee of 3% from USD to SEK (that's in addition to the transaction fee) Intercom.io: ~$200 for the support package. Using the messaging automation would be ~$3000 per month...

Have you considered Wise. You get a “US” account that you could route (or wire money) into from PayPal. Wise only charges 40-50bps to convert to SEK.

+1, I've saved thousands by using Wise.