Madza

Posted on Sep 17, 2020

What paid services do you use?

#webdev #discuss #productivity

Maybe you have bought some tools, extensions, libraries, etc, or you have some active paid subscription plans on some services?

Currently, I can't think of any of my own, but I would be interested to discover recommendations on the best cost-value stuff worth paying for?

Oldest comments (40)

Ganesh • Sep 17 '20

VPN(PIA, for an year)
Amazon Webservices (for 2 months) Planning for email, no idea yet.

Bernhard Wittmann • Sep 17 '20

1Password as a Password manager

Alexandru Naiman • Sep 17 '20

Notion
I cannot live or work without this amazing app
link: notion.so/

Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Sep 17 '20

Patreon

GitHub Sponsor

JoelBonetR 🥇 • Sep 17 '20

I use gitkraken for its automerge engine, easy to use and issue tracker. Also boards are nice and it's cheap.

Louis Low • Sep 17 '20

Besides investing my money paid for Digital Ocean. The other online services are Bonsai for invoicing and contract.

Gary Bell • Sep 17 '20

Full JetBrains suite. I'd not be without them as a suite of IDEs. My blog is hosted on Ghost professional, so I pay monthly for that.

I'm sure there's probably one or two others, but at the end of the day I am happy to pay for software/tools which make my life easier. Whilst I love open source software, and the freedom which comes with it, people still need to pay bills. Not everything can be free.

David Dal Busco • Sep 17 '20

I also use Webstorm and pay the yearly fee.

One of the few subscription, if not the only one, for which I have absolutely no doubts that it is worth the money. I am just more effective with their editor and the fact that you can reach out their support anytime, makes it worth it.

Gary Bell • Sep 17 '20

I have the full toolbox. I also got my employer to pay for it for the rest of the dev team. JetBrains have done alright from me over the years, and will continue to do so.

If I had to pay the full £499 a year for just me, I'd reconsider it and just go for PHPStorm alongside PyCharm Community

David Dal Busco • Sep 17 '20

Indeed the full one is quite an investment. I only use Webstorm (since a couple of years), so I (aka my company 😉) pays something like 79$ a year.

Gary Bell • Sep 17 '20

I use PHPStorm just about every day. I also use DataGrip quite often, so there's two tools already. I dip in and out of PyCharm, but use it less than I would like.

I've been a customer long enough that an annual licence for toolbox for me is less than 2 licences individually, so I stick with it.

David Dal Busco • Sep 17 '20

It makes fully sense 👍

scroung720 • Sep 18 '20

Last time I used webstorm was 4 or 5 years ago. Currently, I am working with VS Code and a friend lately has been saying that I should try WebStorm and he gives me a list of features that I believe are already in VS Code. Does anyone of you know features that are not built in VS Code?

David Dal Busco • Sep 18 '20

This week I saw a tweet mentioning that you can now in VS Code visualize upcoming changes before refactoring in order "to be sure that it is correct". I found it actually funny because in Webstorm, refactoring just works, period. It's really a powerful and reliable feature.

Another feature which I found better implemented in Webstorm is Git. Even if you are slick with the GitHub commands, which are seamlessly integrated, it can still helps in case of merge conflicts. The way of resolving these is pretty well handled.

Summarized: Refactoring + Git are really great in Webstorm

Of course the above answer is my humble opinion. Other might see it differently and even I might change my mind with the time. That being said, few times I tried VS Code, these two features were bringing me back to Webstorm.