What is the last thing you've paid for as a Hacker?

Thank you for the post Steve. I did not expect much from it, but as we can see Heroku and other infrastructure tools are getting mentioned a lot. This is a proof that if you are going for the big money, build pick and shovels. Meaning tools that can be used to build projects. Like Saas services, CI tools, hosting stuff, addons for IDEs, web templates, ... Bootstrapping startups is the future for software developers.

$29 monthly Shopify fee

I only buy domains from porkbun. Free whois protection and the cheapest domain prices.

Notion! Very happy with it so far. I use it for everything personal and business related.

Referral link: https://www.notion.so/?r=9ed8a0ecd76d491793cff34a401d63e5 (I get $5 credit, you get $10)

• Heroku
• Digital Ocean
• MongoDB Atlas
• ngrok
• carrd
• domain names
• iubenda privacy policy generator

Just checked my bank activity, latest thing was a monthly donation to a charity. I like to spread the profit around when I can.

domain, hosting, designer because we need help in the department 👨‍🎨

heroku, digital ocean, domain names, laptop $$$

transistor (podcast hosting), heroku, digital ocean, AWS.

So far this year: AWS, a domain name, LLC formation fees, and an Intellij IDEA license.

Heroku, worldtradingdata api
Didn't take much traffic for the free limits to get hit quickly

My annual Adobe Creative Suite plan for Photoshop is renewing today, 120 euro :(

Mailchimp! It's expensive though, £45/month for around 4000 subscribers. I needed to do some mailouts for product updates and launch of another product, but think I'll move to another mailout package now I've sent those (if you have any recommendations please let me know!)

For me it's pretty much only domains and AWS consumption. I also use Heroku for another product idea (still in its early stages) but only a single free dyno, so that does not count.
Oh, and I have a subscription on Scribd as I read quite a lot (mostly startup books).

Yearly JetBrains license!

Convertbox.com - I needed some nice opt in forms to integrate with ActiveCampaign, and the design/UX of Convertbox forms were well above all competitors.

A docker hub subscription, in order to facilitate a quicker release schedule.

Right now I can do a push to GitHub, and be pretty sure that a new software version is up and running within 10 minutes. Tight release cycles absolutely improve my state of mind in a way that I have much less to worry about.

I upgraded Sketch to version 63 a few days ago.