Let me put you on to something real quick.
Most of these are completely free, and the ones that aren't come with insane discounts. You can sign up as a student, learn a few things on the side, and unlock all of this with no need to be sitting in a lecture hall.
We all hate paying for subscriptions. Nobody wants to, but somehow we all end up doing it. $10,000+ a year just to use the tools you need? That's genuinely ridiculous. Here's how to avoid most of that.
Zyke started on Heroku's free tier, ran the whole thing there from day one. Just migrated the main infrastructure over to DigitalOcean using the $200 credits from the GitHub Pack. Still keeping Heroku around for lighter, lower compute stuff. Two free tiers, zero wasted credits.
See thread below.
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Start here: the GitHub Student Developer Pack
This one thing unlocks over 100 tools with a single application. One verification, and you're in. Everything else on this list saves you money on one thing. The GitHub Pack builds your entire dev setup for free. It's not even close.
I study Computer Science @ Uniuyo, they needed a student email, but I used my ID card instead. This site currently runs on Heroku's Free Tier for students, see screenshot.
Dev & IDEs Ideal for: software engineers, CS students, and anyone writing code daily. Cursor Pro (1 year), Copilot, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm), JetBrains Space Pro, Replit Pro, GitKraken, Postman Student Expert. Most of these come straight through the GitHub Pack.
Cloud & Hosting Ideal for: developers building and deploying apps, backend engineers, and indie hackers. AWS Educate, Azure ($100 credits), Google Cloud, DigitalOcean ($200 via GitHub), Oracle Cloud free tier, Heroku, Netlify, Railway, Cloudflare Pro, Vercel Pro. Zyke runs on Heroku's free tier, so that one hits close to home.