What services do you pay for?
Hello everyone,
Ideas and side-projects are great, but not all it needs to be successful. Validating & execution is key, we got this. Yet, I think nothing would come in as handy as knowing what services (online services) people actually pay for. So was wondering, if you are happy to share which services you are actually paying for (or paid for in the past)?
For me, it's these services:
- Domains (mostly on Cloudflare by now)
- Hosting (Digital Ocean)
- Backblaze (backup storage)
- Laravel Forge to manage DO instances
- Google Suite for emails on one of my companies (might change to Protonmail)
- Buffer (annual plan, not sure if I continue)
That's it - surprisingly low number in general and only one SaaS service. I guess I'm not representative though - I've got work-arounds for many things others might pay for. How does it look for you?
Peter
I'm actually paying for a similar amount of services:
- Domains - namecheap, porkbun, etc.
- Notion - although recently I moved to the student plan
- Hosting - digitalocean.com
- Mail - zohomail.com
- Spotify - gotta stay motivated aye!
I'm probably missing something but that seems to be about it.
Yeah, I was thinking about it for a bit and couldn't come up with more. Even my bank statement didn't reveal anything more. A bit surprising I thought…
@spekulatius Yeah, I feel the same surprise level. I thought it'd be more (I'm sure it's more…)
@sergio maybe we just forgetting the obvious ones haha. Keen to see what is on other people' list.
I would consider using mailbox.org, it's $4 cheaper than Google and privacy friendly.
Ah, okay. I was thinking of moving everything over to Protonmail… Are you using mailbox.org?
@spekulatius yeah i can give you 3 months for free if you want. Has been very stable and good so far. Also extremely cheap.
They also support E2E encryption browser side, similarly to Protonmail and has some other great security features.
@spekulatius Also similarly to GSuite, it has docs, sheets, calendar, notes, etc. in the docs (and hosted on german servers)
@bcye that sounds interesting. Let me ask some questions on Telegram quickly…
The services I'm paying for include:
Websites
- hosting: Digitalocean & WebHostOne
- domains: inwx & moniker
- provisioning: Laravel Forge
- deployments: Laravel Envoyer
Marketing
- SEO: SE Ranking
General
- password security: 1Password
- data security: Boxcryptor
These are my regular payments, besides these I've especially paid for courses (webdev, design) & software licenses (video & graphic tools).
Interesting list Felix. Thanks for sharing! Have you tried Ahrefs (my current favorite, but too pricey at this point)?
@spekulatius Yes I've used it in the past and I absolutely love it. IMHO it is the best tool for everything backlink & content related, but as you said it's also too expensive for me right now. But I will use it again in the future, no doubt. Btw I think Ahrefs as a whole is also a prime example for how to do content marketing.
- hosting: digitalocean & hetzner an
- domains: cloudflare, namecheap, godaddy, namesilo, netcup
- mail: google suite + mailbox.org
- file storage: dropbox, google drive,
- marketing: sistrix, ahrefs
and
photoshop evernote notion trello bitwarden……….
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