What products do you use/buy and why do you use them?
I tend to just look for ideas for what to build, but today I asked myself what I actually use myself, what I pay for. I would love to hear your answers.
Here's what I found for work-related products. Most are actually free.
- Roam for notes and project management (personal projects). paid.
- Apple notes for quick jotting down ideas. free.
- Dropbox paper and Obsidian sometimes for longer form writing.
- Brave browser. free
- Gmail and Hey.com (not sure Hey is adding that much value for me, might go back to just Gmail). Free and $99/year.
- Google calendar. free.
- Outlook for work email and calendar
- Whimisical for flowcharts. Mapping out systems. free.
- Sublime for development
- Render for hosting
- Rails for app (guess not a product, but I use it a lot)
- Tailwind for css
- monday for work projects (shudder..)
- full microsoft stack for work (teams, word, excel...)
What do I consume?
- books. Anything with interesting ideas.
- newsletters. Type notboring, Seth Godin, DHH, Jason Fried, Tim Ferriss.
- twitter.
- youtube. Learning about anything.
Other "special" purchases
- skiing-related products
- gym membership
- Special foods: good wine, cheese and olive oils.
So there are not that many special products I think, and most things are free. Which is a bit annoying if you want to build something for people like yourself 😂.
I would love to hear: What products do you use/buy and why do you use them?
Anything special you love or hate? Something you spend "too much money" on?
