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What you pay for
Add up what your household rents every month, build the free self-hosted replacement for one of them, and we send you the hardware to keep it running.
| You pay for | Plan | USD a month | Runs instead | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netflix | Standard, one household | 17.99 | Jellyfin | Rip the discs you own, stream them to every screen in the house. Nothing leaves the building. |
| Spotify | Premium, one person | 11.99 | Navidrome | Your library, your playlists, subsonic apps on every phone. The album stays yours when the deal expires. |
| Google Photos | 2 TB, the family plan | 9.99 | Immich | Same auto-backup, same face search, running on a box in your room instead of a rack in Iowa. |
| iCloud+ | 2 TB, the family plan | 9.99 | Syncthing | Every photo and backup your phone makes, landing on a drive in your house, with no account standing in the middle of it. |
| Minecraft Realms | Realms Plus, ten players | 7.99 | Paper server | Your world on your own box, with whatever mods you want, staying up after you stop paying anyone. |
| Notion | Plus, one person | 12.00 | Joplin Server | Notes that sync between your laptop and your phone and stay readable as plain files if the company ever folds. |
| Dropbox | Plus, 2 TB | 11.99 | Nextcloud | Files, calendar, contacts and shared links, without a company reading the folder names. |
| YouTube Premium | One account, no ads | 13.99 | TubeArchivist | Subscribe to channels, keep the videos, watch them again in ten years when the channel is gone. |
| Audible | One credit a month | 14.95 | Audiobookshelf | Your audiobooks with your progress synced, and no licence server deciding whether you may listen. |
| 1Password | Individual | 3.99 | Vaultwarden | The same browser extensions, talking to a vault that only exists on hardware you can unplug. |
| The gym | The one you drive past | 42.00 | Something you built | Not every subscription is software. A written plan, a log you own and a bar in the garage counts here too. |
Everything you pay for can be replaced with a free version you can build yourself, or find existing online.
Sources
- cloudfall.hackclub.com, "What you pay for" (the ledger)Rows copied verbatim from src/lib/data.js (RENTALS) and src/lib/Ledger.svelte in AD-Archer/cloudFALL. The site shows them as a tickable ledger; here they are a table.
- cloudfall.hackclub.com, page descriptionThe description above is the site's own meta description, minus its first sentence.
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