What apps or services have you recently stopped using?
And why? And what have you replaced it with, if anything at all?
I thought it would be useful if we shared things we've stopped using as it might help us identify trends and give us indie hackers of things we could be building.
Personally, I've mostly stopped using Trello and Google Docs, and replaced it with Notion.
I was using Pocket recently, but have ditched that too, partially with Notion, partially with Flipboard.
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Recurring them with my reply is that as a developer, I do appreciate time savings, but the cost has to match the time I'm saving. More expensive services tend to offer more robust offerings. Because I try to keep it simple [stupid] they are often way more than I need and rolling my own solution that's minimal in functionality may only take me a night or two of couch hacking, resulting in month back in my pocket month over month.
For a cheaper MailChimp alternative, EmailOctopus might do the trick
Good tip. Currently looking at MailerLite but will check them out!
Fun fact, in a past life, I built "Message Center" for Sumo.com ... would just use that but the lack of RSS feed integration is still a deal breaker for me.
I used to use GitLab, but the number of outages I had with their continuous integration was costing us many many many hours of lost productivity during work hours. I had no choice but to be a paying customer of GitHub and paying for Travis CI (Travis doesn't integrate with GitLab).
That's unfortunate to hear. I haven't had much issue outside of the occasionally slowness (pretty isolated to just pushing / pulling to Gitlab). Runners have all been pretty stable, but I also don't do a ton of activity (one-man army and such)
I'll second the move from Chrome to Brave. Best thing since sliced bread!
Yes, I've been very happy with Gitlab the past 2 years. Unless you're trying to build up your open source project (or cred), Gitlab is hands-down the better choice.
Fair sentiment. I still have the majority of my open source stuff over on Github for that very reason (also, my sheer laziness to move stuff off of there).
Gitlab is great and made my deployement 10000x easier however it seems like github is catching up and implement more & more of the stuff that seperated those two.
Im a bit disappointed that there is no way except running your own CI/CD runners to get security with Gitlab, although on the upside it cost only 5 usd for a sufficient digitalocean server.
What do you mean by "get security"?
My bad should've read through the post before submitting. Nonetheless, Gitlab CI/CD runners requires you to open your servers ssh port to any ip(in other words they do not have pre-set ips) thus limiting your ability to secure your server with a firewall.
I tend to leave SSH open from anywhere (on an alternate port that's not easily detected due to Portsentry) and use keys for logging in, so this hasn't been much of a problem.
Definitely a fair point if you're using a bastion server that's locked down by IP and such.
A bit surprised that a block of known IP addresses isn't available for Gitlab? Most services publish those things to help alleviate these issues.
They added a feature for getting the IP address of your runners in v. 10.6: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/runners/#determining-the-ip-address-of-a-runner
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Dropped: Google Docs, MS Office, Trello, Podio, Todoist, Wunderlist, Evernote.
Now using Notion.
Funny thing - I wanted to build something similar to Notion since 2010 as I wasn't happy with any tools I was using at the time. Big lesson here - if you need something badly yourself, give it a shot without validation. Probably that's what Ivan did.
I've stopped using Omnifocus and switched to Things, much simpler and easier to use.
I'm using Evernote less, switched to Notion for most of my notes. Just using Evernote as a place to store my scanned documents.
I've been trimming down my paid monthly services. After taking a look, I realized that many of them aren't really necessary for me personally. I got rid of:
I realized that I just didn't need to be distracted by as much content, especially if I was already getting enough for free.
Medium.
Here’s are some of the reasons I chose it in the first place: http://williamwickey.com/medium-business-blog-platform/
I’ll write a more extensive post on the switch, but top reasons include things you might not expect: —we had some international contributors to our pub shadow banned with no response from customer service
—we had odd problems inviting contributors and editors
—anecdotally, medium.com links seems to be getting less attention on channels like Reddit, HN, etc.
All the standard trade offs regarding SEO and brand control were in play too.
Distribution via medium is advantageous, but limited analytics make it difficult to optimize.
I’m not totally sour on medium (as many are, and rightfully so in some cases), but ultimately our strategy has evolved in a way where medium isn’t the best primary platform for our writing. (Though, we may continue to syndicate some content there. TBD.)
I discussed some additional details on this in the Indie Hackers ‘Office Hours’ with David Smooke of Hacker Noon: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FE2EZiDydZk&t=2920s
Crunchyroll because their mobile web app and the native mobile app requires you to log in to watch anime but the log in feature is broken. When you click on it, the app closes; and it has been like that for months and they do nothing to fix it. Both on Android and iPhone.
Their PS4 app is also pretty bad, crashes randomly, and the navigation sub par. If you watch the videos with ads, sometimes it plays two ads at the same time which spawns other issues.
I don't know much about the company, but I'm guessing most of their users are on PC, otherwise theses issues would have been fixed.
I stopped using Trello and replaced it with Gitlab.
I stopped using both WebFaction and AWS and have moved projects from both to Digital Ocean.
I've cut back on Twitter and 99% stopped bothering with Medium, Facebook or Instagram. Instead, I'm spending more time on YouTube and my Kindle. Basically it's a move from transient short-form stuff to more long-form content.
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