Ask HN: What do people pay for on a regular basis

Independent press

SoundCloud — their ads are annoying and it's the only music service I use.

Wikipedia — I Square Cash them a few bucks a month, because it's my most used site by far.

PlayStation + — Because you can't merk kids in CoD/FIFA without it.

Patreon for my favorite podcasts

WBAI

Happy to pay for my Spotify every month. Prob the thing I feel most comfortable paying for.

Online iCloud storage. Being on the Mac ecosystem just makes it easy

Gym membership: gotta stay healthy

- Unlimited real-time Cloud backups with version support (Crashplan)

- Adobe photoshop + LightRoom (Adobe)

- Unlimited hosting of images (SmugMug)

housing, utilities, food, health insurance, monthly donations to a couple of activist groups (environmental & political)

Food

Coffee

SaaSy stuff: Office 365. Netflix & Stan. AirVPN. Pluralsight (on/off as needed).

A whole tonne of other stuff for life I won't bore you with or create too much of an identifiable footprint with :-)

- NYT/The Guardian digital subscriptions

- Spotify

- Moviepass

I have been donating to Doctors Without Borders for many years. Also local humane society and food bank. I pay monthly for NYTimes, Medium, Netflix, HBO and additional cloud storage.

1) My current recurring is Mercy Ships: https://www.mercyships.org.au/

I did a bunch of research and felt this was a quality charity that gives great impact for dollars spent.

2) Any free software/service I use multiple times. I'll look for a donate option. I'm not particularly generous but do like to support with something.

My sister pays for Netflix, I pay Spotify family.

I have a $14 monthly donation for some religious institution. And about 10% of my salary goes to paying off debt.

I pay for a VPN (Mullvad) every now and then. Also have my own domain name which I never use but I'm afraid of domain name squatters.

I would actually pay for membership to some elite club. Unfortunately, it looks like Something Awful or MMOs are the closest to that.

I'd also pay for anything that sufficiently motivates, even if it gets me working an extra hour per month. Haven't found anything along those lines. Some work for a short period of time but the motivation wears off.

Netflix, web hosting for my blog, coffee, unlimited backup with backblaze, digital ocean vps for my food app

Domains, donation, mobile, occassionally Wikipedia, thinking of using Google One once it is available to my account, Postcards & Stamps, Stationary

I subscribe to: - Netflix - Spotify - Google Drive/One - iCloud - RescueTime - Lastpass - Audible (1 credit per month)

I donate to: - One small NGO that assist poor college students with basic stuff (rent, food, etc)