Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by O_H_E » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 5:12 AM UTC

Little less than a must have, but Sublime Merge (from the makers of SublimeText) has been a great Git GUI. Especially since Linux lacks an initiative snappy one.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by fiftyacorn » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 9:58 AM UTC

ng-user wrote: post #8

YNAB - it seems unnecessary to some.. but I've got into an awesome routine after using it for 4+ years.

Have u looked at buckets? It's the same principle but it desktop software. I think it lacks bank integration

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by 2rsf » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 10:01 AM UTC

I hardly ever pay for software, but my best one was a very subsidized MS Office one time purchase.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by cotsog » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 1:52 PM UTC

TextSniper[0]: allows you to copy/paste text from images

aText[1]: keyboard shortcuts app

Super cheap (~5$) and can't work without them!

[0] https://www.textsniper.app/

[1] https://www.trankynam.com/atext/

Edit: formatting

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by NumberCruncher » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 11:11 PM UTC

https://cvcompiler.com/ high ROI investment

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by potta_coffee » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 12:47 AM UTC

Reaper DAW has been phenomenal and is quite affordable. I've used it constantly for probably 10 years now. https://www.reaper.fm/download.php

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by Tw9875 » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 1:31 AM UTC

Anyone bought a bot for buying high demand items online? Is it worth it?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by HomeDeLaPot » Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 4:50 AM UTC

Fastmail, to remove a fat Google dependency from my life. It's been great. Its aliasing features are cool.

Bitwarden has met all my password management needs for several years now. (Donation/pro version, can't remember.)

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by marm7 » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 6:42 AM UTC

Tw9875 wrote: post #27

Anyone bought a bot for buying high demand items online? Is it worth it?

Yes, but building one is better.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best money you have spent on software?

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Post by MoYasse » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 1:49 PM UTC

Adespresso

Might be the only digital marketer comment here, but it was defiantly worth the 39$, saves tons of times and generate a lot of data that is needed for my testing