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24 alternatives to My response to "Why isn't your service free?"
At http://trackmydrive.com we have recently started charging for our service. We got our first email stating that our service should be free. Here is our response: Dear xxxxxx, We received your comments expressing concern about the price we have placed on our service. We have decided to charge for the service based on the following reasons: 1. There are hosting and development charges that we pay to provide the service. We had to pay to develop the program and continue to pay for the data that is stored on our website. Without this capability we would not be able to provide the reports –the…
TrackMyDrive is a service that tracks driving activity and generates reports for users. The service began charging a fee to cover hosting, development costs, and data storage expenses. The makers chose a paid model… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My response to "Why isn't your service free?" launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Fullstory Free▲654Web analytics with full session playback, now free
2017 · fullstory.com · its alternatives →
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TrackTheAuto▲69Track and manage your team's travelling expenses 🚗
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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EEVEE▲132Tesla EV charging app to track & manage charging costs
2021 · eeveemobility.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a series of sophisticated algorithms. At the moment, there are over 70,000 AWS EC2 prices - doing that manually just won't scale at most organizations. My background is in software engineering. Previous to founding Usage, I…
2020 · its alternatives →
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TrackMySubs▲144Track subscriptions, trials, lifetime deals, and revenue
2018 · trackmysubs.com · its alternatives →
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How do we handle freemium models?
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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TLDR: I made a public only web analytics without signup. Stores views and visitors for 10 days before deleting data. Exactly 25 days ago today I posted here, proud of my new web analytics. The response was mixed and my post even got flagged (understandable). It was my first real launch and I actually made a sale just a day later of 49$(!). Back then my project was pay once, keep forever. Since then I have sadly went over to the dark side (subscription based). Anyways, I never went back to look at the post after the first two hours, turns out I got a lot of answers. Most answers was something…
2024 · indielytics.link · its alternatives →
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I built this as a personal finance app that allows me to see how my recurring incomes and expenses will affect my network over the years. So trackm can show up to 4 years in the future and track when your accounts will go negative given you expenses and incomes. I've been dogfooding it for the past 10 days, fixing issues I find from my day-to-day use and now it's at a point where I'm comfortable sharing it with others. The app is free for 30 days, after which it goes into read-only mode. Paying the one-time license fee unlocks it forever.
Mar 2026 · trackm.net · its alternatives →
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exit1.dev▲11I'm trying to disrupt the insane pricing of uptime monitoring. I hope you'll help me out. I'm trying to create the absolute cheapest dev monitoring tool on the market, while still being competitive with all the others. This means $3/month plan, while still having monitoring for: Website, REST API, UDP/TCP, ICMP, Heartbeat/CRON, WS/WSS, DNS, Domain Intel/expiry and SSL. Everything with unlimited alerts through webhooks. I'm also taking an unlimited approach to the amount of checks you can have. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
2025 · exit1.dev · its alternatives →
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Give sponsors a page where they book your ad slots and pay.
Jul 2026 · sponsonizer.com · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone. I'm a relatively new developer and I started my first project to go full production recently. It is a directory of payment processors and payment service providers. It's free to use and gives detailed info on their pricing, business model, supported business types, available countries, prohibited businesses and high risk business support. So far only 40 have been added with more to come. And I allow processors to contact me so that they're details can be added to the database. I'll eventually automate this and add verification the months to come. I hope you'll find it useful.…
2025 · sourcefees.com · its alternatives →
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Time tracking, expense tracking and invoicing made easy
2020 · timetrackbill.com · its alternatives →
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Tracksy▲8I'm a freelance developer who got tired of switching between time-tracking apps, spreadsheets, and invoicing tools. I built Tracksy because I just needed something simple: start timer → log hours → export PDF → send to client. I’ve been using it daily and recently added: responsive UI invoice templates analytics watermark removal feedback system interactive demo Would love feedback from the HN community. Demo: https://app.arcade.software/share/ipJQTkzCnEgNaXaHCS3z
2025 · tracksy.me · its alternatives →
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i wanted to build something on rails and sqlite and file_store cache. i have no idea if rei will let me into their affiliate program but this was fun to build
2022 · reipricetracker.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · unpricey.com · its alternatives →
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offline expense tracker
Jun 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Free expense management app to track and control money
2017 · luongsontv5.com · its alternatives →
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