There are many paid services I use, but which I don't pay for as a developer. I mean, AWS, Datadog and other managed services like this are taken for granted, but I don't pay for them as a developer (and my personal aws accounts are just peanuts ;))
So the items I will list below are things I pay on my own, because they help me be a better developer (or at least makes my life easier)
Services I don't pay yet.... but every month I hesitate (feedback welcome)
Oddly enough, this post makes me realize I don't have a lot of subscriptions, but I'll spend a lot on ad-hoc things (some books, software, equipment), but as soon as it requires a subscription , it implies we need it constantly for work, and then it needs to be covered by the company
Namecheap ......... $1.225/mo ($ 15/yr) // ajar.org
ZEIT .............. $1.334/mo ($ 16/yr) // redose.org
iwantmyname ....... $1.167/mo ($ 14/yr) // artille.name
WakaTime .......... $9.000/mo ($ 108/yr)
Adobe CC .......... $19.99/mo ($ 240/yr)
DigitalOcean ...... $20.00/mo ($ 240/yr)
Noun Project ...... $10.00/mo ($ 120/yr)
Think that's pretty much it right now. Not super active atm. Will update if I happen to remember something else... :-)
IDE, Github, hosting/domains and VPN.
See also the previous topic What paid/premium products do you use as developers?
I pay for Zeplin, Aws Ec2, Cloudflare, Firebase, Frontendmasters for learning.
I have a subscription for Webstorm IDE. I used to use text editors with plugins but using an IDE makes a lot of things easier.
I've paid for AWS a couple of times for using GPU instances for deep learning. Only because the credits ran out.
For my personal use, I don't use any paid tools or services. Probably, I haven't come across any situation where I had to use paid tools 🤔
I'm curious to know other answers to see If I missed something good
Edit: Sketch, gcp and send grid
Sébastien Portebois
Software architect at Ubisoft
Shreyansh Pandey
node, coffee and everything in between
So, I have a pretty extensive list of the tools and pieces of software I use. However, I thought it'd be best to give a list of tools which every developer - regardless of platform or language - should have.
Online Services
GitHub
This is, by far, the best investment I have ever made. I wouldn't say it is an "investment" because I got it as a part of the GiHub Education Pack which is pretty darn sweet! I would highly recommend every college and school going to sign up!
Even if you can't get the pack, the private repositories cost around $7/month which is less than the price of a grande americano. Definitely recommend it!
Trello
For task management, Trello is my go-to! The only reason I probably bought it instead of using the free version was that it supported a lot more integrations which made everything pretty simple for me and quite organized.
Google Suite for Business
Self-explanatory!
Development Tools
Paw
Paw, is by far, the best API testing tool ever built; a lot better than Postman.
.NET Tools
I used to do quite a bit of C# work back in the day; I am listing those tools here as well just in case it helps someone.
ReSharper
This is a must-have for anyone writing anything in the Visual Studio environment. It just augments the IDE by adding a lot of cool, much-needed features.
dotCover
I find dotCover to be much better than the built-in test runner with features like automatic coverage, and test-case scopes (which unit test to execute based on file changes).
SciTech .NET Memory Profiler
I did use dotCover and dotMemory in the past, but I fell in love with SciTech's spin on the product. The easy of use and the feature set is absolutely incredible.
GhostDoc
Considering some of the code I wrote was unmanaged, the documentation had to be thorough. GhostDoc, in the past, was free but they introduced a pricing model (not sure when). Even then, it isn't as crazy as some of the tools I have used in the past.
Licensing and Copy-Protection
Since I my field of training is applied cryptography, I wrote my own suite for adding licensing and copy-protection. (If any one is interested in this, I can provide them with the library.) I also wrote some implementations around the A/DRM1 model but never completed it since encoding got really annoying for me.
Note: I was in the process of writing an online, fully-open sourced, cryptographically secure implementation for copy protection but never got around finishing it. If anyone is interested in lending me a hand and getting this off the table, I would love it!
Other Tools and Services
Apart from these, there are a bunch of tools I use for misc. uses.
Learning
Pluralsight - the library is extensive containing every possible topic under the sun.
acloud.guru - keeping up with the latest changes in AWS.
Springer - primarily for research.
Design
Electronics and Mathematics
I do a fair amount of research in electronics (related to PKIF, etc.) so here are some of the tools in that realm:
This is, I guess, all! I haven't mentioned services like AWS because it isn't a "service" per-se. I had a subscription of VS back in the day and a student license for Xamarin, but the license expired, I guess.