Ask HN: What services do you pay for every month?

5 points by JadoJodo ↗ HN
I've been pruning my subscriptions, but am curious what others find to be of value every month.

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Personally:

- Apple One

- Spotify (family)

- Netflix

- Disney+

- Supernotes

- Office 365

- FastMail

- HP Instant Ink (I know, I know)

- Libro.fm

Which Apple One services are you using? I find it curious that you pay for both Apple Music and Spotify.
I prefer Apple Music, but my wife likes Spotify for the social aspect. I have other family members on the plan as well that reimburse me so it ends up paying for itself.
Netflix

Hulu

Disney+

Youtube

A few Amazon Prime video "add-on" channels

Github

Brilliant

Patreon - I support Professor Leonard, Lost In Vegas and 3blue1brown

ACloudGuru

Lynda

Pluralsight

Egghead.io

I also have a membership at the local hackerspace (SplatSpace) even though I haven't been going to any physical meetings or really using the space much since COVID.

Probably a few more random things I'm forgetting.

> Brilliant

As someone who struggled with Math in school I've considered using Brilliant to bone up. Have you found it useful in that regard?

I can anti-recommend Brilliant. It might be okay if want to pay for a subscription to solve puzzles but it's not a good environment for learning.

In your case I would start with Khan Academy - they have material from kindergarten level all the way up to undergraduate university level so you can pick things up from where you feel most comfortable. And Sal explains things in a very human way which is nice for people who have struggled with math before.

I pay for the following:

- HBO

- YouTube Music

- JetBrains Goland license

- Weekly vegetable delivery service

- AWS (S3 mostly)

A lot less than I thought:

- HBO

- Digital Ocean

- Disney+

- YouTube Music

None. Just a month at a time now and then for streaming service when I want to watch a season of a show like The Mandalorian.
Some virtual machines at Hetzner, Gsuite for myself, and some AWS services I need to provide my git-based DNS management product.

I'm not a huge fan of monthly subscriptions, and can't think of anything I'm missing, with the possible exception of netflix.