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What subscriptions do you pay for that you can't live without?

I'd love to know what subscription services other IH hackers pay for. Doesn't matter if it isn't hustle related, just tell us why it's important to you and why it helps you with your day to day.

I have a few:

  • Strong - Fitness tracker app that pushes me to hit the weights more often and harder. I've identified that I release a lot of pent-up anxiety after a workout, so I value this service a lot.

  • Notion - I use this for task tracking, brainstorming, reminders, wiki building, and more. Core to my daily work routine.

  • Carrd - Website builder that enables me to go from 0 to launched website in quite literally 2 minutes. Perfect when I have ideas I want to test.

on May 5, 2020
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    I've been paying Spotify for a few years. Nothing else stuck with me that long. I love my music. 🎶

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    Slack, Jira, Confluence, Grammarly, Seodity - I pay for my own application to make sure that payments and discount codes work okay :)

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      Do the premium version of Grammarly really worth it?

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        Absolutely, one of the best spent money in my life.

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          100% same for me.

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    Notion, Webflow, Zapier

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    Notion, Carrd, Ghost

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      Hi - I am in the process of setting up a blog but finding it hard to make a decision between Webflow, Ghost & Wordpress. I see that you use Ghost, can you share reasons why you are FOR Ghost and against the other Webflow and Wordpress (if you are)?

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        I use to use WP years ago, got tired of it, somewhat old and clunky.

        I’ve tried out Webflow and really like it for what it can achieve, if I wanted more than a blog I would probably go with that.

        I went with Ghost mostly because it is focused on publishing. The experience is really smooth, plus they are a non profit and that makes my heart melt, lol. I have longer term plans to do paid membership based stuff and their solution for that seems like it’s heading in the right direction (there are no added costs for it).

        I like that Ghost could handle everything I need, whereas Webflow I’d need to look at other services to integrate and I just can’t be bothered with the hassle of it all.

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          Thanks for that. What's your blog URL?

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              looks good well done

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    Grammarly - the paid version is so much better than the free.

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    1Password I think. The rest I can probably make do.

    Love Carrd, Zapier, Airtable.

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    Spotify and Jetbrains are current subscriptions I can't do without. What surprises me is that I recently cancelled Youtube Premium and it's harder to go back to ads then I imagined. 😳

    I am also considering to start a subscription to Mockplus. I was impressed by the tool during my trial.

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    I'd say Heroku, Notion and Dropbox

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