Mullvad is the only one, though it’s in large part due to me not being in a situation where I have any important software needs in my personal life, meaning I can get away with just free options and cracked versions whenever I need something.

I think digital service would be a more appropriate term here as some of that you mentioned is not SaaS.

With that said, I do have a few subscriptions myself:

• VPN
• VPS (this is IaaS, actually…)
• shared cloud hosting (PaaS)
• domain name registrations

How is mullvad (or any commercial VPN) considered SaaS? They are providing networking services: relaying your traffic through a pathway other than your direct ISP.

I think of SaaS as something more like Google Docs: a cloud-based suite that replaces a locally installed office suite. Microsoft Office 2021 is software; Office 365 is SaaS.

Alternatively, a locally-installed application that operates without the use of the provider’s resources, but still requires an ongoing subscription for continued use. The software isn’t owned by the user, it is just a service the user continues to purchase.

I’ve got several subscription-based services that operate “in the cloud”. Webhosting, VoIP trunk provider, VPN, a half dozen apps on my phone. The only one I would consider SaaS, though, is a weather app that seems to pull its data directly from the National Weather Service.

None of them are FOSS. Dunno about calling them SaaS.

• My email provider, 1 € per month, posteo.de.
• My VPS (virtual private server), netcup.de.
• Does Amazon Prime count?

• Bitwarden: I could host it myself, but it’s better if it is secretly elsewhere in case I need up…
• Backblaze: backups from my server (to which everything else will soon backup to)
• Spotify: it’s convenient
• GPhotos: until I’m done migrating to Immich locally
• PIA: yarr, and also avoiding region stuff

Posteo for mail and Mullvad for VPN. That’s about it.

Monarch Money

Mint is going away and I need a polished mostly automatic way of tracking my income, spending and investments. Sure there are cheaper or subscription free ways of doing it but I really need something that just connects to all my accounts and helps me visualize things. I’m willing to pay for the service and I get to leave Intuit behind.

Midjourney

I use it to make concept art for characters, places and things in my tabletop game. I’m looking to drop midjourney and do this all locally though but haven’t gotten around to setting that up yet. In the meantime it’s still pretty cheap and easy to use.

With Yunohost being a thing, I’m down to nothing.

SaaS?

bitwarden, PIA

Proton mail and AirVPN

This community might call me an idiot for this, but nord vpn. I got a long subscription a while back for cheap. I’m in a good enough financial position that I can afford a streaming service or two without issue plus this vpn to hop regions. I value my time more than that amount of money, and I only watch so much tv, so I’m really not feeling any fomo from this strategy, plus I don’t really have concerns about getting into trouble. I’m streaming, not downloading, and using services that I pay for to do so. If it’s not legal to do this, I’m not exactly a power user so I’d be surprised if I were a big enough fish to come after.

Another one for me is PlayStation Plus (extra tier, specifically). I initially started paying for the base tier to be able to play Elden Ring with my friends. Then I saw that for a little more than I was already paying per year, I could get access to a pretty impressive catalog of games. I paid for another year of it when it went on sale like a month or two before they raised the price for it lol. Idk the exact cost now, but I figure as long as I’m trying more than like 3 games in a year then it’s worth it. But even better is that because I’m not buying individual games, I don’t feel pressured to dump 100+ hours into a game I’m not loving, so I can just stop if I lose interest and move on to another game. I played 2/3 of Ghost of Tsushima and just didn’t care after that so I stopped.

Idk, maybe I’m fucking weird, but I feel like I’m getting really good value from doing this. I rarely care about watching or playing something more than once, so I’m okay with paying a fraction of the cost of owning these things just to have temporary access, and then not have clutter leftover when I decide I’m done. I want memories, not stuff.

I find ngrok useful enough to pay for. When I want to demo some software I can run it locally and set up a temporary tunnel. When I used to have a VPS I would do this with SSH port forwarding, but I’m told that tunneling TCP in TCP can lead to some weirdness.

I used to have a dyndns subscription to get a stable domain name for my home router. It’s kind of another way to do the same thing - instead of a tunnel I could forward a part.

Tuta

Hardware and hypervisors as a service so to say

3 VPS hosts