Yesterday I went for a demo. An elderly gentleman – Vice President of this Society asked me – why should I pay recurring and not one time. Just give me your software we will put it in this computer – showed me an old computer with a CRT monitor – and we are good.

It has been a while I had answered this question – “a while” being – might be 2 or 3 years. I take it for granted nowadays that Online Software as a Service ( SaaS ) is the way to go.

Here are the Online Services I use – on a monthly / yearly basis .

Personal
1. Apple Music – Rs.190 per month – for an infinite supply of songs.

2. Amazon Prime Subscription – Rs.499 per year ( introductory I believe – will be Rs.999 later )

3. www.the-ken.com – Rs. 2,750 per year – for well researched Indian startup news 5 times a week.

4. Art of living app – Rs.60 per month. For the Pranayama count mainly.

5. Apple 200GB Storage – Rs.140 per month

6. Magzter – Top Gear – Rs.670 per year, Readers Digest – Rs.370

7. Wired Magazine – Rs. 1200 per year.

8. Newton – Mail Client – Rs.1650 per year

9. Audible  – Rs.1100 a month – get 1 audio book a month.  

Had tried Netflix, Kindle Unlimited – but stopped them.

For ADDA
1. YouTrack.Jetbrains.com – Kickass Tool to track sprints. 20$ per month.

2. Jetbrains tools – PhpStorm, IntelliJ, PyCharm, Webstorm paid yearly.

3. Adobe Creative Cloud – for Photoshop paid monthly – some 70$ per month total

4. Zeplin – 20$ per month – for UX Team to upload design and Developers to use them

5. Github – 50$ per month

6. Marketing automation tools – 30$ and 50$ per month

7. Intuit Quickbooks – Rs.5000 per year – for our company’s online Accounting

8. Google Apps for our email – Rs.150 per user per month. Bonus we get Google Docs and lot of storage space – to which we are migrating lock stock and barrel. Not using Dropbox.

9. Eapps, Amazon AWS and Linode Servers – Not disclosing 🙂

10. Microsoft Office 365 – but we are switching to Google Docs – 80% are using Ubuntu inside ADDA so we had to let go off Office. A few licenses are still being used when we have to communicate with the outside world. I have switched to Numbers/Pages/Keynote.

Yes, I do not own any of the Software or the Hardware. Enjoy the upgrades and benefits like backup and 100% uptime and can sleep peacefully at night.