DISQUS

jeremystein · 1 year ago

cant think of one! oddly enough, id happily pay for most of the services i use.

andrewparker · 1 year ago

yea, Charlie made me think about the fact recently that I'd pay for
Twitter. And I'd definitely pay for gmail... and Techmeme... and WordPress.

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jeremystein · 1 year ago

I think aim would top my list. I'd pay a lot for that. I'm always willing to pay for something that is slightly better. gmail is the perfect example. I download all of my emails into outlook. At that level, it makes no difference whether its yahoo or google. If google charged for gmail, id still go with them because the spam filter is unparalleled. However, id still pay for aim although gmail has gchat, simply because my network lives on it.

aaronwhite · 1 year ago

Do you count iTunes/Amazon music in this list?

andrewparker · 1 year ago

I think e-commerce doesn't count, but all-you-can-eat plans (eg Y! Music,
Rhasody, Napster) do count.... but I'm not sure why I made up those
arbitrary rules. Feel free to argue otherwise.

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aaronwhite · 1 year ago

I'll take liberty then :) Our "free generation" was weened onto digital music through Napster. That one service may very well have 'legitimized' music piracy in the minds of the early/young internet users. The fact that iTunes/Amazon has finally succeeded in switching me (former pirate) into paying customer is quite the feat!

So I think any apps that do micro-payments for digital content is worth including. (SecondLife, IMVU, etc)

It's one more way "freemium" apps can convert users from the "free generation" into paying customers.

Sam Huleatt · 1 year ago

Currently I pay for Basecamp. I also pay for WordPress (IMO)...Since I'm a terrible/lazy programmer I pay other people to do my WP updates, sidebar customization, etc.

I'd be willing to pay for Del.icio.us and/or Firefox + extensions.

Mukund Mohan · 1 year ago

1. Hosting my blog (annual domain fees) + quick blog (it sucks don't do it)
2. Paid one time $19 for IMplus on my blackberry
3. quicken online for business.

andrewparker · 1 year ago

Huh, the fact that you pay for Quicken Online makes me wonder if anyone
would pay for Mint or Wesabe?

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candice · 1 year ago

I would pay for Wesabe, especially if it let me do more advanced reporting type stuff.

I pay for flickr, and used to pay for emusic but stopped. Bought music from Amazon but not iTunes.

andrewparker · 1 year ago

Do you use the current feature set of Wesabe today? If not, what are some
of your dream feature requests?

candice · 1 year ago

I use the management side, but not the community so much; for me it is the ability to pool all my accounts together and look at the data across them, how much comes in and goes out, etc. (Doubly important when you're self-employed and monthly income can vary wildly.)

(Also, they have some great support people - I have had to get them to help me untangle big chunks of data more than once.)

KristianHansen · 1 year ago

I don't even pay for internet access - my wonderful neighbors do.

rajivdoshi · 1 year ago

I pay for a similar set of services and I think that is about it. I do pay for email but even that I have been debating. I use Yahoo to create dummy spam email addresses (so I don't give out my real email address address).

Flickr ($25 year)
Yahoo! Mail ($20 year)
1and1 hosting ($5 month)
Skype Pro ($3 month)
Blockbuster Online ($20 month)

I recently ended my SecondLife account ($75 year). I also spend enough money with GoDaddy for renewing domain names. Besides SL, all the services I paid for bring real ultility into my life where as most other web services that I use could be considered just for fun so I don't know if I pay for example: Twitter.

andrewparker · 1 year ago

It's a testament to Flickr's quality that people are willing to pay for
it...

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Ethan Bauley · 1 year ago

I pay for:
- hosting
- box.net cuz it's simple but i am dying for dropbox
- emusic
- sonicbids
- tunecore
- amazon advantage

what do you do in your consulting work? i may have a gig for thee

andrewparker · 1 year ago

Wow, I had not previously heard of tunecore and sonicbids, but both look
like really excellent companies. An interesting angle on the music space.
Thanks :)

In consulting I provide really basic sysadmin stuff. Good for remote
companies under 5 employees. As for the gig, I'm not taking on anyone new
right now, but that's anyway for the lead.

swissmiss · 1 year ago

2 x Flickr ($25 year)
Typepad ($14.95 month)
Skype Pro ($3 month)
Quicken ($2.99 month)
Blinksale ($12 month)
Backpackit ($7 month)
.mac ($99.95 year)

I have a feeling there is more, just can't think of it right now.

andrewparker · 1 year ago

Wow, that's a lot. What made you choose Blinksale over FreshBooks and
Harvest? Was it feature set? Design? Both?

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Rebecca · 1 year ago

Flickr ($24.95/year)
Blinksale ($6/month)
Box.net ($7.95/month)
Domain Name & Hosting (~$75/year)

Thom · 1 year ago

Typepad (Plus)
Skype
.mac

I use the free version of Flickr (v. light use) and Vox for an ad hoc personal blog

Phil · 1 year ago

interesting what apps other people use.. :)
i'm using (monthly:
- cashboard (12$)
- mozy(5$)
- basecamp(12$)
- skype (not pro) (5$)
- istockfoto(~5$)
- turbosquid
- domain+hosting(5$)

michaelgalpert · 1 year ago

personal: flickr + netflix
business: basecamp+highrise

elysa · 1 year ago

I pay for flickr & Dreamhost. I would pay for wesabe.