I try and keep subscriptions down to a minimum, although there are several that I think are essential to my workflow. I'm interest to know what everyone's essential subscriptions are.
Mine are Excalidraw, Mermaid, and ChatGPT.
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#2I pay (personally) for Postico and ChatGPT.
I pay for Mullvad for my VPN of choice, and Eweka and Drunkenslug for newsgroups (i.e. every media ever invented downloaded at maximum speed)
Bitwarden for personal password management
x.com sub to get rid of the ads
youtube pro to get rid of ads
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#3Obsidian
Google (for Deep Research, Gemini and NotebookLM)
ChatGPT (For ChatGPT and Codex)
GitKraken
CodeRabbit
Novelcrafter (for fiction)
Wondercraft (wrapper around Elevnlabs and Googles TTS)
Seriously considering Elevenreader as well
Raindrop (bookmarks)
OutdoorActive (maps for hiking)
YouTube Premium
Sanebox (Email triage)
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#4intellij, proton, ps+, youtube premium
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#5Proton,Mullvad
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#6mathacademy - learn math
chatgpt - make problem sets and personal tutoring
mullvlad - vpn
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#7Mullvad, tailscale, bitwarden
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#8Used to pay for a VPS, besides that nothing.
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#9mullvad, 1Password, fastmail for me
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#10Personally nothing - a one off payment for software is fine.
Subscription based software - it's what I do for a day job but I'm not interested in any more monthly money drains than the bare minimum - ie mortgage, rates and utilities.