Subscriptions which are worth it?
Which subscriptions are worth subscribing to? Can be of any category Food, Grocery, Shopping, Music, newsletter, Books, fitness, etc. I'll start: * Zomato gold(I save 15k+ per year) * Amazon Prime
Music - Apple music
Otts - Netflix, prime
Food - swiggy one, zomato Gold
News - newslaundry
Books - Audible, Kindle Unlimited
Fitness - healthifyme, cult, freeletics
Tech - will let know if anyone is interested
HeftySpy78
Stealth
a year ago
Bro that's around 6k per month total. My brain won't let me spend this much even though I can financially support it.
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BossyCompost
Stealth
a year ago
YOUTUBE PREMIUM!
Chatgpt
BearBear
Stealth
a year ago
What is different in the chatGPT subscription?
BossyCompost
Stealth
a year ago
Chatgpt4 model, code interpreter, plugins (🔥)
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stealthyfime
Stealth
a year ago
Cultfit
Swiggy one
Prime
Purely on stuff that is worth reading:
Financial Times (for people into finance)
Stratechery
Lenny's Newsletter
Audible
ET Prime
Note - Have not ever had all of these together (not that rich), just at different points of time
Thatperson
Stealth
a year ago
The ken?
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productguy
Student
a year ago
Apple Music - Not cluttered as much as Spotify. Pure listening experience.
Kindle Unlimited - Have been using it for quite some time. There are few premium non-fiction books that one could read. No value beyond that.
Yes, agreed! Apple music is lit for those who like to hear lossless music
Ryan_Howard
Stealth
a year ago
But it does not have a lot of creator uploads right? I like listening to covers, mix and stuff. For that Apple music wasn’t good till 2021, when I switched to spotify. Is it better now?
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Vegetabledev22
Stealth
a year ago
Educative.io
Cult fit
Swimming / Tennis courts
Mint
Medium.com
ITC & vistara
Depends on the perspective and usage behaviour of the user. I use them pretty regularly and benefited a lot.
aalookanda
Student
a year ago
These are the ones I pay for:
Youtube Premium Family - The price is so good that this doesn't even warrant a second thought! The ad free experience has saved me soo much time and frustration that I can't even think of going back. Youtube Music is also a plus since this means I don't need to buy a separate sub.
Fully managed Plex Server - For access to media via some *ahem* less ethical means. Instead of paying for Netflix, Prime, Hotstar, Spotify, Audible, Kindle and what not, I pay a fixed sum every month for access to Petabytes of Media, at a much better quality.
It has everything: Blu-ray ripped 4K Remux stuff, Dolby Vision stuff, International media, Courses, Audiobooks, E-Books etc.
There are certain gotchas like having to buy a capable media player and supporting piracy, so there's that. But I blame that on the media companies.
I'm willing to pay, just make it convenient for me! But no, they all need to have their own separate subscriptions. So be it.
1password - I find this absolutely necessary in today's times. I'd have gone for a cheaper option like bitwarden, but 1password's UX is so intuitive that even my parents had no issues getting used to it. And that was a priority for me, so 1password it is.
Zomato Gold - I have used both this and Swiggy One; and I find Gold better. If nothing, it allows me to add discount offers even after they have applied theirs, so that's a plus lol.
Google One - Someone in the family ran out of space, so got it for them. But since it's shared, the whole family enjoys extra space in their google accounts now.
PS Plus Extra - Bought a new PS5 a few months ago. Since I was new to the ecosystem, the Extra sub made sense. Got my money's worth already by playing all the games they include. Might move to Essential next time since all I need now is multiplayer access.
Artos - Investment management app for privacy conscious folks. App is desi and so is the dev!
Niagara Launcher - I'm quite fond of the UX it provides.
aalookanda
Student
a year ago
Costs 800 per month. $10 to be exact.
Basically what Netflix used to cost for their ultra plan.
Look up plexshare on reddit (I think the original subreddit went private, but other small subs took over, you should be able to find them). You'll get tons of owners posting ads of their servers. Find one you like with the content that you want to watch and join their discord.
Some tips:
- Never pay for a multi month sub. Period.
You never know when the owner will pack up and leave (or gets banned). Pay month by month even if it's a little bit more expensive. It's better to not regret later.
- Get a trial for a server if you can. Also, try various servers before committing to one.
- Make sure to sort by bitrate and stream the most bandwidth hungry movie before you commit. That way you know that the server and your home connection can stream whatever the server throws at it. Use the native PC app for this, not Android or Web (you don't wanna transcode, see below).
- Have at least 200mbps of bandwidth if you plan to stream 4K HDR remuxes. 1080p will require much less, of course.
- Make sure your settings on Plex are set to not transcode stuff (it shouldn't convert media from one format to another, to be very basic). Transcoding taxes the server a lot and is mostly never permitted. Your server owner should have some recommendations on the best settings. Ask them for it.
- If you like what you see and plan to stream anything above 1080p, you'll either need a Nvidia Shield Pro or the new Amazon FireTV Cube (or a PC with the native app, of course).
Web apps and other platforms don't direct play certain formats, which will result in transcoding, which brings us to the point above where video transcoding is rarely ever allowed (especially above 1080p).
All of this might seem like a hassle at first, but it has made media consumption very easy for me. Essentially, the old netflix never died.
mishe
Student
a year ago
Have you looked into Stremio with Torrentio addon and Real debrid subscription?
RD costs me only 350-400/month and has basically got me covered for all the media I would ever need to watch.
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LinkedIn Premium if your job requires a lot of reach outs
Audible - a very good use of small time spaces that come up in your day
YT Premium - use it for the extensive music catalogue, and ad free YT
Swiggy One & Amazon Prime ofc
https://www.ynab.com/ ~9k per year
If you want to set up a budget and you log all your expenses from all bank accounts/credit cards, You Need A Budget (YNAB) subscription is totally worth it. Have been using it for a year now. Totally changed my money game. I have been able to save up for all my goals and no longer feel like I am not in control of my spending.
9k is a huge amount. How is it different from other money management apps?
So I'll tell you my money management app journey.
During college I started out with an app called Money Manager. I logged all my expenses there and then put these expenses into individual categories so at the end of the month I know how much I spent in what category (food, stationary, fees etc). Money manager didn't update their UI for the longest time so I moved to an app called Money Lover. Similar concept of logging daily transactions and giving them a category so that you can see how much you are spending in a category. These apps started being a bottleneck for me after I started earning. During college my expenses were hardly 5k a month because hostel and tution was taken care of by my edu loan. But once I moved to blr for work and needed to pay off loan, rent, maid, transport, other expenses, I could no longer rely on just spending and looking back at spends at the end of the month. More often than not I had to do a lot of mental math to see how my savings for future goals was going and how much I could spend on say eating out when I am out with friends. So I wanted to make a budget. Since I was already in the app world, Excel sheet wasn't it. I could have created my own budget and every time I make a transaction I may have been able to keep a check on how much money is left in that budget category (e.g. eating out). I needed a better solution. That's when I came across this app called ynab. It's hard to explain how it's different from other apps because it has its own way of doing things. One rule you have to follow is 'Give each dollar (rupee) a job'. Which means whenever you get any money in your account, you assign it to all of the budget categories you have made based on individual target spending for that category. There should be no dollar that is not assigned to a budget category. So when you get paid on 31st, you go to ybab, add the income to ynab and then you assign money to the different categories that you have created.
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If you can push for some kind of progressive delivery fee on longer dist delivery, Zomato subscription would become the best,
Before the new rules Zomato delivered order 11-12kms dist also for free but now it's gone.
So either it's order from outlet till 9.9kms or pay 100-150₹ delivery fee even it's 10.1kms distance.
This hurts because form the experience of ordering in mid tier areas of cities like Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Bhopal very few restaurants fall in then free delivery zone, and when it's smaller order of 1-2 dishes it's doesn't just feel right to avg indian mindset.
A bracketed plan something like 0-10kms free delivery then for each extra km over 10kms charge 10-15₹ per km till a ceiling of say 100₹
Or maybe for order value>= ₹500 give free delivery till 20kms Like currently basically it's order value>=₹200 free delivery till 10kms.
Just think about it if bigbasket or jiomart can deliver ₹500 and above order for free from their centralised store Zomato should also too.
And Swiggy's subscription is not worth just because they operate in very unethical manner, in some device it shows 3month subscription for ₹149, for some it's ₹249 for some it's ₹399 like if you're participating in a lottery.
Lageek312
Student
a year ago
Youtube premium family membership
Zomato Gold
Best subscription (10x value for money)
Paperbackdreams
Student
a year ago
Try using lintcode
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YT premium for sure! Surprisingly, don't see a lot of people out IRL using it, but it saves me ridiculous amounts of frustration at ads and the family subscription is super worthwhile
ChatGPT Pro
Grammarly Premium
iCloud
Need to buy:
1Password
VPN
Waiting for Black Friday Deals. 🥲
aalookanda
Student
a year ago
1password is amazing, especially if you plan to get family members onboard!
It's costly, yeah, but nothing beats the UX. I easily got my parents to start using it.
If you're going to use it solo though, I'd recommend bitwarden. It's open source and much cheaper.
The UI isn't that intuitive, but honestly, it's not too bad. Our generation would have no problem getting used to it.
I’ve been using BitWarden from last 5 years but looking to move to 1Password due to better chrome extension.
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Amazon Prime - cause I recoup nearly all my subscription costs with the cashbacks from Amazon Pay card and Prime helps maximize those rewards.
YT premium - music, ad free YT
Except for some OTT platforms, I try to go for lifetime licenses if there is an option for that rather than subscriptions.
Eg: Goodnotes 5, Spendee lifetime plus, Copy Em, Dropzone, Nova launcher etc..
Randomization
Stealth
a year ago
Good Print newspaper.
YT Premium.
Swiggy One, the fees is now 3k for 12 months subscription, quite high..
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