Really just curious what folks out there deem valuable enough to give money for monthly or annually. As a software engineer I have quite a few that keep me productive and I’ll list a few:

  • ChatGPT
  • Perplexity
  • Obsidian Sync
  • YouTube Premium
  • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’m a software engineer as well, but (almost) none of my subscriptions are related to that. Currently:

    • Netflix
    • Disney+ bundle
    • Bitwarden (yearly)
    • DNS names (yearly) - currently unused because I bailed on Vultr due to TOS BS; this is for personal projects
    • Tiller (yearly) - pulls transactions from my various accounts

    That’s about it. Everything else I buy one at a time, like video games or donations.

    I’d like to drop Netflix and Disney+ over their stupid ad policy, but my wife and kids use them a lot.

    Here’s some stuff I plan to get soon:

    • VPN - probably Mullvad
    • Tuta - finally axe Google
    • VPS - probably Hetzner; I’d prefer one without forced arbitration though; could get by if something like Tailscale allowed custom domains and port forwards
    • Backblaze B2 - backups