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Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

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Post by moltar »

wpasc wrote: post #37
laken wrote: post #16

In order of amount I pay for each service: Atlantic.net (Hosting), Fastmail, Discord Nitro, Todoist, Private Internet Access, Twilio Some that I paid for in excess of 1+ years (or Lifetime): Freedom.to, Brain.fm Couple that I'm using premium plans, but not currently paying for (prolonged trial offers, etc.): Reddit Gold (still have several years left), Todoist

Have you liked Brain.fm? I used to use it, but started to think it wasn't really worth it/much more useful than regular whitenoise

Not OP. But I’m using it for 2+ years now almost daily. Love it. I use focus and nap modes primarily.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

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Post by gkoberger »

bastijn wrote: post #43
gkoberger wrote: post #33

A good amount! Media: Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Prime, put.io Personal "Work": GitHub, Heroku, Photoshop, Sketch, Dribbble Pro Workflow: Superhuman, Dropbox, 1Password Donations: Wikipedia, Watsi

Interesting to see superhuman there, I thought that died after being in the media for a brief while. Is it worth the subscription? What makes it that you would really need it, for you, not the ads.

You might be thinking of another product? As far as I can tell, they're doing pretty good. The hype may have died down a bit, but as far as I can tell the company itself is doing great. They're still in beta, and slowly rolling out.

For someone who spends most of my time in email, definitely. It's $29/mo, which is nothing for how much time I spend. It's really fast, and as a vim user I love how everything can be done with a keyboard shortcut. They have a ton of awesome little features, such as auto-BCCing people in intros, or snippets (which are way more than you'd expect... you can use snippets to do things like auto-CC someone you CC a lot, or insert text).

I mean, at the end of the day, it's still just an email client. However so far, I've really liked a lot of the nice little features and attention to detail.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

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Post by anotherevan »

Newsblur for RSS feed reading.

NearlyFreeSpeech for web-site hosting.

VentraIP for my .id.au domain. This includes DNS and email forwarding. The email forwarding is awesome - no need for G-Suite just for personal email domain. I just use a regular Gmail account.

Cerberus for phone anti-theft on all family phones.

I use to pay for Lastpass and Xmarks, but they shut Xmarks down, and the free offering of Lastpass expanded to include the features I needed. (To be honest, I've been looking to move off Lastpass since LogMeIn bought them, but especially since they shuttered Xmarks. That really rankles.)

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

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Post by mstaoru »

Newsblur for great and flexible RSS experience. Fastmail for great email experience (does that count as a SaaS?). Sync (sync.com) for cloud backup and storage (switched after Dropbox faked OS X password prompt and didn't even blush). 1Password for passwords. MyNoise app for white noise / procedural music generation. Github is paid also for my own private projects. I also used to pay for Evernote, but lately, the quality of their service declined in China and I gave up.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

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Post by laken »

wpasc wrote: post #37
laken wrote: post #16

In order of amount I pay for each service: Atlantic.net (Hosting), Fastmail, Discord Nitro, Todoist, Private Internet Access, Twilio Some that I paid for in excess of 1+ years (or Lifetime): Freedom.to, Brain.fm Couple that I'm using premium plans, but not currently paying for (prolonged trial offers, etc.): Reddit Gold (still have several years left), Todoist

Have you liked Brain.fm? I used to use it, but started to think it wasn't really worth it/much more useful than regular whitenoise

I use it on and off. I've only primarily used the focus mode, and it's a decent way to help get "in the zone" if there's a really deep task I need to do.

Re: Ask HN: What SaaS or apps are you paying for?

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Post by bernardino »

gkoberger wrote: post #33

A good amount! Media: Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Prime, put.io Personal "Work": GitHub, Heroku, Photoshop, Sketch, Dribbble Pro Workflow: Superhuman, Dropbox, 1Password Donations: Wikipedia, Watsi

I used to have a spreadsheet just exactly like this, w/ as many subscriptions. But nowadays that I feel inclined to use technology and the internet less (hopefully it doesn't come around and haunt me when I finish my undergraduate degree), I have canceled most of the subscriptions.

I am paying for: Spotify, G-Suite (personal email), and Go-Daddy (domain - does this also count?).

Otherwise, I also used to be a monthly donor to Watsi. I love the information, timeline, and follow up they have about the patients. They also sent me a lovely hand-written letter (may I add with my name hand-written!) and booklet once that I still have - think it was around Christmas time too.

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