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Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by jv22222 »

docdeek wrote: post #5

If we’re talkiing regular monthly expenses: - Health Insurance for family of four: €118 - Accountant: €99 - Apple One Subscription: €19.95

> Health Insurance for family of four: €118

That is a bit cheaper than my $2,400/mo for a family of 3 (of which my employer pays 50%).

I miss the UK health system.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by amosson »

erikrothoff wrote: post #7

Servers at DigitalOcean $2500 per month. Paypal: Our last transfer to our bank account cost $1000 because PayPal takes a currency conversion fee of 3% from USD to SEK (that's in addition to the transaction fee) Intercom.io: ~$200 for the support package. Using the messaging automation would be ~$3000 per month...

Have you considered Wise. You get a “US” account that you could route (or wire money) into from PayPal. Wise only charges 40-50bps to convert to SEK.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by pjc50 »

My employer provides a MSDN subscription and a seemingly complete set of Jetbrains products.

We're a very cloud-skeptic company making chips and associated software, so the rest of our stuff - Jira, Artifactory, Gerrit, Confluence etc - is all on-prem.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by rvieira »

Obsidian publish and sync ($144/year), IntelliJ pack (£119/year), Dropbox (~£80/year)

Possibly another (£200/year) in misc stuff (sr.ht, newsblur, bitwarden, todoist, fastmail, etc)

EDIT: I'm only including "work-related" expenses and not things that are pretty common, ISP, utilities, etc. It is debatable if I should include pet insurance, since I WFH and my cats are essential for my work environment :)

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by shoo »

most expensive: a tool used for regulating exposure to local environmental weather conditions & providing access to fresh water, multiple energy sources (usage billed separately), waste disposal, storage, some degree of sound isolation, privacy and physical security. very handy. costs around AUD 10k annual subscription. don't leave home without one!

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Post by sneeuwpopsneeuw »

1: required health insurance: €120/month but I get 100 euro from the government so €20/month 2: a server at DigitalOcean: €5/month and domain names at TransIP €3.65/month 3: prepaid phone bill (€10 to €15)/year

In general I just don't like subscriptions. I prefer to pay only for things I use.

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by jbverschoor »

giraffepanda wrote: post #9
docdeek wrote: post #5

If we’re talkiing regular monthly expenses: - Health Insurance for family of four: €118 - Accountant: €99 - Apple One Subscription: €19.95

Sounds like he means related to productivity or software development

Looking for a market to disrupt :-)

Re: Ask HN: What are the three most expensive tools/services that you use?

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Post by docdeek »

jv22222 wrote: post #11
docdeek wrote: post #5

If we’re talkiing regular monthly expenses: - Health Insurance for family of four: €118 - Accountant: €99 - Apple One Subscription: €19.95

> Health Insurance for family of four: €118 That is a bit cheaper than my $2,400/mo for a family of 3 (of which my employer pays 50%). I miss the UK health system.

In fairness, it is the additional private health insurance on top of the French government’s public care. It’s not the most expensive option but we rarely pay out of pocket for anything medical (the odd non-compulsory baby vaccine, for example, might sting us 80 euros or so). Of course, a part of my business and personal tax goes to support the public side of the healthcare, but nothing like $2400 per month.

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Post by geoah »

shoo wrote: post #15

most expensive: a tool used for regulating exposure to local environmental weather conditions & providing access to fresh water, multiple energy sources (usage billed separately), waste disposal, storage, some degree of sound isolation, privacy and physical security. very handy. costs around AUD 10k annual subscription. don't leave home without one!

I assume that's a house? Technically you can't "leave home" if you don't have one so it does work out.
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