Ask HN: What little-known services are you paying for?

#1

Post by nazerimahdi2001 » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 8:14 PM UTC

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#2

Post by nazerimahdi2001 » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

Personally, I am paying for ludwig.guru which helps to write better english by searching the given statement in famous newspapers like Washington Post, BBC and etc.

Re: Ask HN: What little-known services are you paying for?

#3

Post by readonthegoapp » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 9:07 PM UTC

Mubi

not sure how 'little-known', but...

Re: Ask HN: What little-known services are you paying for?

#4

Post by giantg2 » Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 11:27 PM UTC

There are a ton of little known services covered by taxes.

Re: Ask HN: What little-known services are you paying for?

#5

Post by mikewarot » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 1:22 AM UTC

Flickr pro

1and1 domain hosting

Microsoft office 365

Re: Ask HN: What little-known services are you paying for?

#6

Post by quickthrower2 » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 8:16 AM UTC

Dreamhost, which provides the old school control panel style hosting with Wordpress installation

Also Zoho for email.

Re: Ask HN: What little-known services are you paying for?

#7

Post by theSealedTanker » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 2:35 PM UTC

mikewarot wrote: post #5

Flickr pro 1and1 domain hosting Microsoft office 365

"little known"

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#8

Post by mikewarot » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

theSealedTanker wrote: post #7

mikewarot wrote: post #5

Flickr pro 1and1 domain hosting Microsoft office 365

"little known"

I doubt anyone's heard of the first 2, the last one might have a few other users.

Re: Ask HN: What little-known services are you paying for?

#9

Post by jolmg » Mon, Jul 12, 2021, 6:35 PM UTC

rsync.net

Maybe they're not little-known here, but their service of a restricted shell to large-storage-capacity machines for backups seems pretty unique.

Re: Ask HN: What little-known services are you paying for?

#10

Post by rdtwo » Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 6:11 PM UTC

I pay for stellar robotics and cardinal autofill scripts. Most people don’t even know what those are