Doing post-thanksgiving shopping and thought the HN folk might have some cool gift ideas and deal-hunting strategies to share.<p>Preferably tech-related since this is HN, but really anything that improves your life / others would be great to hear about.
If you're building a PC, I suggest pcpartpicker.com for comparisons and checking historical prices.<p>The really good deals (along comments about caveats that aren't apparent from specs) will usually show up on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales</a> or <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc</a>
<a href="https://cashnotify.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cashnotify.com/</a><p>An OSX menubar app that alerts you when Stripe & Paypal payments come in. I personally use this everyday and it's awesome.<p>34% discount with the code BLACK19 making it only $6.46
My product came out of my own pains of providing end user documentation and tech support, so how can I not recommend it? 50% off BFCM.
Here's a post that summarizes my work, at least partially: <a href="https://www.helpinator.com/blog/2019/09/18/recommended-reading/" rel="nofollow">https://www.helpinator.com/blog/2019/09/18/recommended-readi...</a>
30% off the first year of yearly plans for Checkbot for Chrome: <a href="https://www.checkbot.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.checkbot.io/</a><p>It's a Chrome extension that tests 100s of pages at a time for web best practices to help you improve the SEO, speed and security of your site. Has a 4.9/5 average review score.<p>I'm the author though so I'm bias. ;)
I have had my eye on LinuxAcademy for learning cloud tech. <a href="https://linuxacademy.com/blog/announcements/why-black-friday-is-important-to-linux-academy/" rel="nofollow">https://linuxacademy.com/blog/announcements/why-black-friday...</a>
50% Off on EmailThis Lifetime Plan - <a href="https://www.emailthis.me/lifetime-premium/black-friday" rel="nofollow">https://www.emailthis.me/lifetime-premium/black-friday</a><p>EmailThis helps you save ad-free articles & web pages to your email inbox.
<a href="https://leavemealone.app" rel="nofollow">https://leavemealone.app</a><p>Using it and recommending it: unsubscribe to emails with one click. Also Privacy-focused.<p>50% off all packages with the BLACK_FRIDAY code!
We are having a Black Friday deal at ManyPixels: <a href="https://manypixels.co/black-friday" rel="nofollow">https://manypixels.co/black-friday</a>
DNA kits for Ancestry.com and MyHeritage are half price. MyHeritage also has genetic risk/carrier status report + DNA matching kit that's also 50 percent off.