Maybe you have bought some tools, extensions, libraries, etc, or you have some active paid subscription plans on some services?
Currently, I can't think of any of my own, but I would be interested to discover recommendations on the best cost-value stuff worth paying for?
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Paid out of pocket for domain names. Everything else is paid by my personal meta data on free tier services.
I purchased several apps that I regularly need for working:
Subscriptions:
Services that I consider removing:
I guess, I can categorize all my tools into:
password manager: bitwarden annual
cloud storage: pcloud lifetime
dedicated servers: online.net monthly
vps servers: vultr monthly
web api framework: servicestack annual
bulk emails: amazon ses monthly
domains: cloudflare annual
music: spotify monthly
everything else is either free, open source or cracked 🤪
Guess it really depends on what you are looking for. If you are looking for just personal use tools most stuff is completely free for personal use.
For personal use I really only pay for domains, everything else I run is hosted freely at vercel basically with DynamoDB free tier database.
For business use theres a lot of different tools that I use.
GSuite, Stackery, a lot of the atlassian suite, github teams, and probably a lot more I cannot think of off the top of my head.
When I read this the first time, I could not come up with a lot of services I pay for, but after thinking a bit more on it, they all began coming up
"Tech" tools I subscribe to:
todoist.com (everyone needs a good and simple todo list)
Grammarly
Jetbrains (I have lost count on how many of their IDEs I got installed on my machines)
A few active subscriptions on Patreon and other services to support OSS
Is anyone is using repl.it paid package?
I'm a student of cs, currently learning ReactJs nd building my portfolio. Feeling like repl.it is really great.
I use none because I don't trust myself to actually use any of them.
Domain + Virtual Private Server to run my projects there.
Also, I have supported several projects by donations (from the top of my head, Wikipedia and The Perl Foundation).
I started my blog pretty recently. These are the things I've paid for so far:
These are things that I plan on paying for at some point:
Skillshare is really worth subscribing to. I started with atrial and went up a 1-year subscription. It was worth it for me
What classes on there have helped you the most?
1Password
Notion
Alfred (Lifetime membership)
Discord Nitro
SourceHut. It's still in alpha, but I really enjoy the simple and straightforward build system based on Linux shell scripting in separate stages. The pipeline definitions and secrets system are concise and allow you to pull in configurations to files at specific locations as well, which makes applying a secret for AWS or NPM CLI commands a single entry in the secrets property and you're good to go.
I'm using this primarily as a tool to automatically build and host webpages on Netlify with ease, but it allows functionality like containers (long live podman) for reproducible builds and supports various Linux and BSD distributions already.
Plus the UI is just easy to work with, most websites today feel like they're hiding things I care about in random corners of subsections in the page (I'm looking at you, GitHub, why is my Starred tab gone)
Jetbrains, LucidChart, Gsuite, various cloud products, github pro, gitbook.com, and testing fellow.app.
I still have a physical copy of Adobe CS6 that I refuse to let go of until it completely stops working.
Alfred (though a lifetime licence, not a subscription)
GSuite (for my personal email)
Various Domains
Netflix
None. Everything should be free 🙂
There's so many open source projects for every domain of life that can help you.
Everything should be free?
One of the issues with Open source projects:
But I think it all comes down to what your time is worth :)
If I can pay 3$/ month for a todo list app I would happily do that than spend hours trying to set it up and manage it myself :)
I'm grateful to be tech literate and a proficient developer. Using open source software is quite fast and efficient in my case :-)
I heard this phrase and it stuck with me:
But yeah, I know where you are going. There is most likely a free and OSS alternative for most stuff.
You can create your website for nothing. Just to pay the domain per year and it's good. Hosted with GitHub or other and pass into a serverless 🙌🏼
There are free domains too. Namely .la, .md and .ag
Yeah but I not recommend free NDD because isn't better for SEO 😁
Just my domains. Everything else is hosted on vercel for free.
Domain names are very cheap, compared to hiring a VPS.
Pricing is PER YEAR.
Same - Netlify and free tier of various hosting services for the win!