Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#31

Post by jedisct1 » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:26 AM UTC

OVH Black Friday deals:

https://www.ovh.com/us/black-friday/

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#32

Post by _puk » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:27 AM UTC

vldmr wrote: post #30

I'll just leave it there. Real discount for domaine names, shared hosting and ssl. https://www.namecheap.com/domain-hosting-ssl-deals/black-fri...

Thanks for the link, but current deals all gone (other than Comodo Instant SSL, lots of those left)

New ones at 6am EST

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#33

Post by mrmrcoleman » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:31 AM UTC

GuiA wrote: post #2

The nature of your question in itself indicates that there is nothing you should buy. Buy things if you need them, otherwise leave your wallet in your pocket.

+1

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#34

Post by vldmr » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:33 AM UTC

_puk wrote: post #32

vldmr wrote: post #30

I'll just leave it there. Real discount for domaine names, shared hosting and ssl. https://www.namecheap.com/domain-hosting-ssl-deals/black-fri...

Thanks for the link, but current deals all gone (other than Comodo Instant SSL, lots of those left) New ones at 6am EST

NP, I waiting for .website domain.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#35

Post by SanderMak » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:37 AM UTC

O'Reilly is running a 50% discount on all ebooks: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/cyber-monday.do

(full disclosure: I'm writing 'Java 9 Modularity' with them, available in early access)

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#36

Post by veli_joza » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:38 AM UTC

olalonde wrote: post #29

PacktPub[0] and PragProg[1] both have discounts on eBooks (50% and 40%). [0] https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/thanksgiving-2016 [1] https://pragprog.com/

Humble has a nice UNIX book bundle:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#37

Post by sarsaul » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:43 AM UTC

Best one I found: https://twitter.com/HostingerCOM/status/801435545696092160 seems like one of the best deals for hosting and domains out there.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#38

Post by azazqadir » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:56 AM UTC

_puk wrote: post #32

vldmr wrote: post #30

I'll just leave it there. Real discount for domaine names, shared hosting and ssl. https://www.namecheap.com/domain-hosting-ssl-deals/black-fri...

Thanks for the link, but current deals all gone (other than Comodo Instant SSL, lots of those left) New ones at 6am EST

There are other hosting deals out there as well. Check out Cloudways that is offering 25% off for 3 months.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#39

Post by apricot13 » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:59 AM UTC

If your in the UK http://www.hotukdeals.com/black-friday lists all the current deals.

Re: Ask HN: Is there anything worth purchasing on Black Friday/Cyber Monday?

#40

Post by govind201 » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 10:59 AM UTC

Two9A wrote: post #25

govind201 wrote: post #24

Top discounts by product category: http://blackfriday.semantics3.com/dashboards/RJ7EP446XUIOLEU... Might aid the discount hunting process, if not the decision making process.

It's worth noting that there are lots of stores not indexed by Semantics3, and Amazon is one of the big ones they miss out.

Amazon is part of the list of sites being tracked. Any reason you felt otherwise?