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Ask HN: What Software Did You Pay For In 2012

36 points by crisnoble ↗ HN
What software or apps did you find worth breaking out your wallet for in 2012?

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crisnoble
LastPass Premium, best $12 dollars I have ever spent.
lucastheisen
Agreed... On my second year of $12 and happy as day one.
caw
IntelliJ during it's 75% off sale. I'm still experimenting with it, but overall it seems solid and better for Ruby than my previously used Textmate or Aptana Studio.

I also bought a couple of games, split equally between PC and PS3.

zerovox
Similarly, I bought WebStorm. I'm happy enough with Eclipse and at work we have a few plugins for the build system, but I'm not a fan of Aptana, so WebStorm seemed like a nice IDE for JS related projects, and in the 75% sale it was $12 or something, definitely worth the price.

I've bought a few games in the Steam sales over the year.

fogus
Both for the iPad:

* SmartGo Kifu * OOTP Baseball

quicksilver03 

  IntelliJ IDEA
  ClassicShell
  SecureCRT
  SmartGit
  Copernic Desktop Search
  xplorer2
rrreese
Lightroom, Resharper, Sublime Text.

Then several of the Humble bundles and a dozen games on Steam.

Derbasti
SublimeText 2. What a great piece of software.

And on a completely unrelated note, I then got thoroughly enamoured with Emacs. Thus donated some money to that.

frou_dh
I feel CloudPull was a good buy. It means I'm not vulnerable to data loss if Google decides to freeze my account, like you sometimes hear about. http://www.goldenhillsoftware.com
johnsbrayton
I am the developer of CloudPull. Thank you for the link and the kind words.
eze
Sublime Text. Better Terminal Emulator Pro.
gbog
Android's Minecraft, BubbleUpnp, Music Folder Player.
weslly 

  - Transmit
  - Sparrow (RIP)
  - Tweetbot for mac
  - Kaleidoscope
  - Echofon for mac (RIP)
  - DragonDrop
  - Daisy Disk
  - Codekit
  - Alfred's Powerpack (2x)
  - 1Password
  - Sublime SFTP
  - ColorSchemer Studio
  - DayOne
  - Reeder
+lots of cheap apps at app store
bilawal
iA Writer & Sublime Text 2
k-mcgrady 

  Evernote Premium (I store everything in this including photos of handwritten notes which it makes searchable)
  Aperture (I'm not a photographer but I prefer this over iPhoto and Google's Picasa)
  Sublime Text 2 (Excellent piece of software)
mseebach
Spotify (I guess more of a service than a piece of software)

Wikipedia £5/month donation

Civilization V

jacobwg
Sublime Text 2, CrashPlan, all the 2012 Humble Bundles, and assorted iOS apps.
tomasien
Coda 2. I understand the Sublime Text crew is probably going to yell at me, but I freakin LOVE Coda.

Oh, also Spotify Premium. I'm not sure if that counts.

Still looking for a CRM simple enough to be worth paying for, but it's not happenin. I'm building one myself I suppose!

eliben
I'm surprised no-one said Dropbox yet. I upgraded to their 100GB account which is now my main backup drive.

Also paid for some iPad games for my daughter :-)

msutherl
I did the Google Adwords trick (advertising your Dropbox referral link) to bump my account up to 17GB. ~$20.
icebraining
I'm surprised no-one said Dropbox yet.

Well, I paid for Tarsnap and Backblaze, but I don't consider them "software", but services. Maybe others felt the same regarding Dropbox?

onlyup
Some Android apps/games on sale at .99c or less, that's it.