Ask HN: What products have you used regularly for years?

6 points by neilsharma ↗ HN
Websites, apps, SaaS services, or even physical stores. What brands and companies have survived the test of time in your life?

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1. Unroll.me - Easily unsubscribes to newsletters. I currently have over 500 unsubscribed newsletters through them, and sign on every 2-3 weeks to keep it updated

2. Adblockers - I cannot use the internet without them. I actually use two -- adguard and ublock

3. Yelp - Cause knowing where to eat is a perpetual need

4. Video Speed Controller - Chrome Extension that speeds up all html5 videos. Youtube already supports this, but now I can speed up Netflix, Amazon Prime, Vimeo, etc

5. Venmo -- still the best way of paying friends

6. MightyText -- because typing on phones is slow

7. Google Drive, because enough docs/downloads/sheets already sync with it, and dropbox is redundant

8. Costco/Amazon.com/Farmer's Markets. I'm a massive consumer (mostly foods), but get 99% of everything I buy from those three sources. The last 1% probably comes from time-sensitive runs to a local pharmacy/drugstore.

9. Youtube for music. Still has more selection than all the other services combined

1. Gmail 2. Chrome 3. Heroku 4. Youtube 5. Spotify 6. Dropbox 7. Gyroscope
1. Emacs - I might have moved to something else if Spacemacs weren't so good.

2. Apple nearly everything - I've switched to Android and back several times, and have used Linux as my main desktop quite a bit, but I keep coming back to the Apple ecosystem. For all of its shortcomings (and there are certainly a few), Apple makes decent products that still mostly just work, and I like the fact that they make their money selling products, not ads, which is one of the big factors that has kept me from migrating to Google everything.

1. SnappyApp - http://snappy-app.com/

2. Google Maps

3. Amazon

4. Snapseed iOS - The best photo editing app I've found.

5. Lightroom

6. Sublime Text

snapseed looks slick -- just downloaded it!