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Why people always forget mobile?
They do not -- NewPipe exists.
Only on Android.
Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
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Re: Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Vote for Apple One here. Exceptional value if you have a few people sharing it.
I just wish they wouldn't gatekeeper Apple Fitness with a geolock. I'm paying the same as the rest of the people, but can't use it because of ... reasons? We don't need localisation, I don't want the exercises to be in my native language, I can understand english just fine.
I would imagine that because fitness+ involves heath data it is legally complicated to launch it everywhere at once.
There are probably also licensing issues with the trainers and music across various jurisdictions that need to need worked out.
It would be nice to get a token discount for features you can’t use though, you’re right
Re: Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
#63I pay for GH Copilot, but mostly because I haven't bothered to stop. I'm probably going to switch to paying for Cursor. I used to pay for the following: * Home Designer Pro (upgraded to fully purchased at some point) * JRebel (circa 2010ish) I will never pay for * Youtube Premium
Youtube Premium is brings qualify of life to a new level, though. No ads and off-screen playing rock.
Firefox + uBlock Origin achieves the same thing
Re: Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
#64Adobe Creative Cloud
Re: Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
#65- FastMail for email, calendar, and contact book. - Kagi for search and translation. - rsync.net for backup (although I took their lifetime subscription offer so I no longer actively pay them). - Self-hosting related costs (rented servers and domain names). - Buttondown for sending out blog updates. (I was generously gifted a lifetime subscription, but had I not been I would likely have paid for it eventually anyway.…
YouTube subscription - Ever since they tied play/pause to the screen lock a subscription is essential if you want to use it as an audio only app. I hate it.
If you're using a Samsung device then you can use Screen Curtain within Samsung's Good Guardians application on the Galaxy Store, which allows you to play media with the screen turned off.
Re: Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
#66For my life workflow, I pay for these because they add a lot of value for me: • Infuse, from Firecore (probably the best video player on Apple TV, iOS, iPadOS and macOS — you can throw almost any format at it) • Owl, by Beonex (it’s a Mozilla Thunderbird extension that connects to MS Exchange and costs $10 a year) • Bvckup 2 (Windows backup software) — this gets cheaper on renewals On services: • Apple Fitness+ (annu…
+1 for Infuse, you can also purchase a lifetime subscription, I think it's worth it.
Re: Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
#67Fastmail and HEY email,
Kagi,
1Password,
Newsblur,
Perplexity,
Wolfram (Mathematica),
Zotero,
Dropbox,
Backblaze,
Microsoft Office,
Raindrop.io,
Wachete (track changes on webpages)
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I also pay for Google but that’s just ransom for my data held hostage by them because I have shared that email address with many.
Re: Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
#68- FastMail for email, calendar, and contact book. - Kagi for search and translation. - rsync.net for backup (although I took their lifetime subscription offer so I no longer actively pay them). - Self-hosting related costs (rented servers and domain names). - Buttondown for sending out blog updates. (I was generously gifted a lifetime subscription, but had I not been I would likely have paid for it eventually anyway.…
> - LLMs: I find API credits to be better value. I've spent $260 worth of API credits on my $20 Claude Code Pro subscription so far.
Agentic stuff is probably the exemption to this because it chews tokens like nobody's business. For average prompting, API is the way to go. I've spent an average of around $7.50/mo between OAI and Claude, and that's using o3 and Opus for most queries.
Re: Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
#69- FastMail for email, calendar, and contact book. - Kagi for search and translation. - rsync.net for backup (although I took their lifetime subscription offer so I no longer actively pay them). - Self-hosting related costs (rented servers and domain names). - Buttondown for sending out blog updates. (I was generously gifted a lifetime subscription, but had I not been I would likely have paid for it eventually anyway.…
Re Spotify: I think the greatest value is easy discovery. I wouldn't find 90% of the stuff I listen to in CD shops.
Re: Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?
#70None.