I am curious to know what saas or apps are HN user's paying out of their own pocket for? Not business apps, but for your own personal use.<p>Personally, I pay for feedly (rss reader), G Suite domain (for my personal email), beyondpod (podcast app for android), mighttext (syncs sms to gmail), todoist premium (task/to do app).
Spotify, TrainerRoad, Zwift, Strava.<p>I used to pay for Crashplan until they terminated the plan I was on.<p>I hop on and off the paid plan of my own SaaS just to test the payment flow from time to time ;-)
Newsblur for RSS feed reading.<p>NearlyFreeSpeech for web-site hosting.<p>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.<p>Cerberus for phone anti-theft on all family phones.<p>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.)
I found myself paying upwards of $100 monthly in these small incurring charges until my credit card was lost and they were all cancelled. I'll answer with what main services I used to pay for and what I replaced them with. Evernote got replaced by OneNote. It's not an equivalent, but it gets the job done. I moved from lastpass once they changed their subscription model to the free tier. I'm considering moving to bitwarden's free tier. I'm somehow unable to get together the few hours it will take to migrate a handful of sites and email accounts from my 1and1 site to something less painful, but every time I try to move, it becomes a small nightmare.
Backblaze business(two computers), Spotify, Github, Amazon EC2 and RDS(Rancher DB and Master), Digitalocean(Rancher Workers), Circleci, Buddybuild, Google Business (three seats), Name.com( one IO, a dozen dot coms), Netflix, Amazon Video
I have a dedicated machine from online.net that hosts a few services that <i>would</i> incur a monthly cost but self hosting helps save a bit of cash there. These are: GitLab for private projects (because I work with a team and per-seat costs multiply fast), Confluence and Jira for project management (again, team size scales the cost and a self-hosting license is only $20/yr).<p>As for actual SaaS: Backblaze personal, Adobe full suite ($400 per year I think, gives me everything I need for art/video projects), A password manager, and... that's it actually! No netflix, no google, no dropbox, I'll probably keep it this way.
It is interesting to see that most people only pay for some large brand name services, would love to see more people paying for SaaS solutions from smaller businesses/startups and for more technical resons (I guess SME's would better qualify for this than individuals)<p>As for my spending I guess I also fall short of the above point: Play Music - music streaming, Netflix - chill, Github - Private repos, GSuite - mostly emails, GDrive - storage, Namecheap - Domains, Google Cloud and AWS - cloud stuff, Asana - side project management, AdWords - side project marketing
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.
JuiceSSH - android, highly recommened
GSuite
a t2.micro EC2 - tiny websites, personal url shortener, screen with ssh sessions to every machine I have access to
more Win10 licenses then I care to admit to - my VMs gave keys!
Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, VRV, DirecTV Now - HBO is included in dtvnow, and we're grandfathered in to the intro $35/month plan
Office 365 from work - If I love jobs, I'll pick up an Office subscription myself.
Two I haven't seen mentioned that I pay for<p>* Postman: an awesome tool for API work (I'm not affiliated)<p>* Amazon Glacier: cheap offsite backup of photos/video (also not affiliated)
Not all active at the moment, but: Robinhood gold, tipranks (in the past), marvel unlimited, Intellij IDAE (not really a SaaS per se), Adobe Creative Cloud (same) ,Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO (Hulu and HBO only when there is a good show to catch up on... ). iCloud, AWS, leetcode (in the past)
In order of amount I pay for each service:<p>Atlantic.net (Hosting), Fastmail, Discord Nitro, Todoist, Private Internet Access, Twilio<p>Some that I paid for in excess of 1+ years (or Lifetime):<p>Freedom.to, Brain.fm<p>Couple that I'm using premium plans, but not currently paying for (prolonged trial offers, etc.):<p>Reddit Gold (still have several years left), Todoist
Apps, in the strictest sense? I can't think of any that are purely personal. Unless you count entertainment oriented stuff like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime with some "add on" channels like Shudder and HBO.
LWN, Wikipedia, FastMail, Digital Ocean, Google Play Music, Plex, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.<p>I buy music at Bandcamp, bleep and direct at artist pages. I buy movies at rifftraxx.<p>I donate to various FOSS projects with money and time.
#dev:
cloud9
digitalocean
serverpilot<p>#education:
onemonth
udacity/coursera as needed
Gotham<p>#entertainment:
HBO
netflix
hulu
youtube Red (music)<p>#other:
dashlane
dragon dicatate
amazon prime
apple storage<p>I use the free tier of many other services.
Google Play / YouTube Red: ad free streaming music, ad free YouTube<p>G-Suite: mostly for email for my personal domain<p>Netflix: streaming video<p>101domain: domain registrar<p>Amazon Prime: faster free shipping<p>DigitalOcean: virtual machines<p>AWS: cloud stuff
Bear: the best note-taking app I’ve ever used, with a great tagging system<p>Spotify: music subscription<p>Github: private repos<p>1password: password manager