Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#1

Post by burtonator » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 10:36 PM UTC

Hey HN.

I'm curious what apps / software you pay for.

This community is interesting and we all use a bunch of Open Source and free software but I'm curious to see what apps you actually pay for.

Re: Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#2

Post by burtonator » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 10:39 PM UTC

The reason I ask is that we're in the monetization phase of my app and it's also Open Source:

https://getpolarized.io/

It's basically a PDF and document management repository. It's kind of like Mendeley/Zotero meets Kindle+Github.

I'm kicking around some ideas including just make it flat out free and just focusing on growth to charging for some premium features like cloud sync.

One of the things we're struggling with is many of our users are from the HN community and they aren't really open to using something like cloud sync as they don't trust cloud.

Re: Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#3

Post by Wuzzy2 » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:05 PM UTC

None. :P

Re: Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#4

Post by aespinoza » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:30 PM UTC

On the top of my head I personally pay for:

- Jetbrains All Pack

- LittleSnitch

- Git Tower

- iStats

- VMWare Fusion

- Beyond Compare

- Office 365

Re: Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#5

Post by burtonator » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:31 PM UTC

Also.. here are the apps that I actually pay for myself ;)

IntelliJ... love it. Can't live without it.

Slack... of course.

Github.

Lots of web apps like Typeform.

Re: Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#6

Post by burtonator » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:40 PM UTC

aespinoza wrote: post #4

On the top of my head I personally pay for: - Jetbrains All Pack - LittleSnitch - Git Tower - iStats - VMWare Fusion - Beyond Compare - Office 365

Thanks.. Git Tower and iStats both look interesting. Have you tried Git Kraken?

Re: Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#7

Post by burtonator » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:41 PM UTC

aespinoza wrote: post #4

On the top of my head I personally pay for: - Jetbrains All Pack - LittleSnitch - Git Tower - iStats - VMWare Fusion - Beyond Compare - Office 365

I think one trend I'm going to notice is that a LOT of these apps are going to be older apps. I think people have trouble paying for NEW apps as they might go away...

Re: Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#8

Post by ram_rar » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:42 PM UTC

IntelliJ

Github - I used to pay, but not anymore. Since, private repos are free now.

Slack.

Re: Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#9

Post by jordhy » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 11:44 PM UTC

- Office - DaisyDisk - IntelliJ - iA Writer and VMWare Fusion

Re: Ask HN: What software do you actually pay for?

#10

Post by arduinomancer » Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 12:02 AM UTC

Sketch, iStats, Paste