Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by hellomynameise » Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 8:35 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by karanbir88 » Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 9:06 PM UTC

By tools, if you mean IDE's, I'd say Brackets or Sublime Text are worth at least $10. If you can broaden to API's & SDK, the one I'd pay for is Google Maps.

Re: Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by lokio9 » Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 9:13 PM UTC

Sublime Text 2. I love its simplicity! Even using IDE's at work, sometimes you need a fast text editor with syntax highlighting.

Re: Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by 0x400614 » Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 12:26 AM UTC

karanbir88 wrote: post #2

By tools, if you mean IDE's, I'd say Brackets or Sublime Text are worth at least $10. If you can broaden to API's & SDK, the one I'd pay for is Google Maps.

That's funny because they are charging USD $70

Re: Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by hellomynameise » Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 12:59 AM UTC

karanbir88 wrote: post #2

By tools, if you mean IDE's, I'd say Brackets or Sublime Text are worth at least $10. If you can broaden to API's & SDK, the one I'd pay for is Google Maps.

I meant to say - if you were to buy a developer tool (not currently existing), what functions would you want?

Re: Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by lokio9 » Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 5:25 AM UTC

hellomynameise wrote: post #5

karanbir88 wrote: post #2

By tools, if you mean IDE's, I'd say Brackets or Sublime Text are worth at least $10. If you can broaden to API's & SDK, the one I'd pay for is Google Maps.

I meant to say - if you were to buy a developer tool (not currently existing), what functions would you want?

I would buy a software which memorizes my programming habits and makes proposals while coding

Re: Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by meekins » Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 5:30 AM UTC

JRebel is awesome and well worth the price ($365/yr). Especially when iterating on a complex and messy JSF UI it really saves time on repackage/deploy cycles.

Re: Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by shortoncash » Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 2:48 PM UTC

I'm considering paying for CLion, but I am still on the fence about it.

Perhaps someone in this thread can tell me whether CLion is everything they dreamed of and more. It's hard for me to evaluate something fairly in 30 days.

Re: Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 4:23 PM UTC

IntelliJ.

(OK, I wouldn't personally pay for it, because I don't do enough Java work on my own. But for a company job, I'd push my company pretty hard to get it. And if I did a startup where it would be useful, I'd buy it.)

Re: Ask HN: What are some developer tools that you would pay for?

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Post by TobbenTM » Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 11:16 PM UTC

A smoother Quiver (http://happenapps.com/#quiver) for Windows