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Ask HN: Black Friday/Cybermonday deals for hackers?

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I tend to buy most of my yearly subscriptions and learning materials during Black Friday. Are you aware of deals that may be particularly interesting this year? I’m particularly interested on those coming from independent creators as those tend to be less known outside their circles, but anything is fair game.

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fragmede
Parallels Desktop is 20% off. They have support for the M1 Macs, and there's an ARM port of Windows (you have to register for it), and of course various permutations of Linux support ARM.
Tepix
LowEndBox / LowEndTalk have some VPS deals
DataCrayon
Plotapi (https://plotapi.com) has its 20% off sale running... it's independent :) focus is on creating beautiful and interactive visualisations
kevinmcconnell
There's a collection of deals from indie makers, collected by Marie Ng, at https://indiemakerblackfri.glide.page/dl/d0a5f4/s/d0a5f4

And the Twitter thread where it started: https://twitter.com/threehourcoffee/status/14609177735848960...

newsbinator
The page doesn’t seem to load on iOS?

I get the top bar and the bottom “Made with Glide” button, and otherwise a white screen.

kevinmcconnell
I'm seeing that now too.

Refreshing the page seems to make it load properly (for me, at least) so, while not ideal, at least there is a way to work around the problem.

asicsp
I'm a self-published author and these are my offers till end of this month:

1) "Practice Python Projects" (https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/py_projects/blackfriday) ebook is free (normal price $10)

2) "Learn by example Python bundle" (https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/python-bundle/blackfrid...) is $2 (normal price $12) - three ebooks titled "Python re(gex)?", "100 Page Python Intro" and "Practice Python Projects"

3) "All Books Bundle" (https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books/blackfriday) is $5 (normal price $22) - includes all three Python books mentioned in the bundle above and eight other books on regular expressions and CLI one-liners

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I know a couple of blog posts by indie creators with their own sales and links to other programming deals:

* https://treyhunner.com/2021/11/python-black-friday-and-cyber...

* https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2021/11/24/python-black-f...

seanwilson
I'm an independent creator running a deal (50% off the 1st year, and there's a generous free tier too):

https://www.checkbot.io/

> Checkbot is a Chrome extension that finds website SEO, speed and security problems before your users do. Test 100s of pages at a time including local development sites to stop critical issues going live.

avinassh
Grammarly - 55% off on the first payment

Pro Writing Aid - 50% recurring off - https://prowritingaid.com/en/App/Purchase

Coursera Plus $1 for the first month - https://www.coursera.org/courseraplus/special/cyber2021

Pluralsight 40% off - https://www.pluralsight.com/offer/2021/bf-cm-40-off

O'Reilly / Safari online, 40% discount, use CYBERSAVINGS21 - https://www.oreilly.com/

Apress - https://www.apress.com/us/shop/cybermonday-sale

NoStarch Press, 35% off + free shipping, use BLACKFRIDAY35 - https://nostarch.com/blog/2021-holiday-gift-guide (not affiliated with any of these)