Editor's note: To celebrate the holidays, we tracked down the best limited-time developer discounts for 2016—we'll keep updating this list with new discounts as we find them. NOTE: many of these deals will expire on Cyber Monday (11/28/2016) so act while you can!
Updated at 7:13pm PST 11/28/2016
Put down those keyboards and break out your knitted mousepads. Tis the holiday season! A time full of awkward family get togethers, Mariah Carey singalongs, and crazy Canadians on Black Friday.
But there's one part of the holidays that always makes our team happy—the abundance of deals! Given that the average American will spend $718 on gifts this holiday season, most companies are more than willing to shell out on big discounts. All of the big name companies compete for a bit more attention, and us developers score some cheap tech.
We typically put together a wish list of deals each year in our Slack room, but this is the first year we decided to share it with you all. Don't let us down—save wisely! Here are some of our favorite tech discounts.
Hundreds of new servers are installed in OVH's 12 datacenters everyday. This guarantees bare-metal resources accessible in less than an hour, and the liberty to use it to rollout the software of their choice. The many functions available on their dedicated servers allow their clients to manage their infrastructure autonomously.
- Up to 50% off 1 year plans
- Promo link
Paw is a full-featured and beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction with REST services delightful. Either you are an API maker or consumer, Paw helps you build HTTP requests, inspect the server's response and even generate client code.
- 50% off immediately
- Promo link
CodeShip runs your automated tests and configured deployment when you push to your repository. It takes care of managing and scaling the infrastructure so that you are able to test and release more frequently and get faster feedback for building the product your users need.
- 25% off first 2 months
- Promo link
- Code: CMUL25FOR2
A development platform that enables you to not only edit your files from underlying services like FTP, GitHub, Dropbox and the like, but on top of that gives you the ability to collaborate, embed and share through Codeanywhere on any device.
- 35% off any paid plan upgrade
- Promo link
- Code: blackcyber2016
InVision lets you create stunningly realistic interactive wireframes and prototypes without compromising your creative vision.
- 3 months of free, unlimited prototypes
- Promo link
- Code: INV-CYBERMONDAY
Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That's Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.
- $100 off Slack Team
- Promo link
- Big thanks to ProductHunt for the find
A simpler way to manage servers online. Commando.io empowers users to be more efficient, improve their workflow, and eliminate anxiety over server provisioning, maintenance, and deployment.
- 15% off any plan for life
- Promo link
- Code: USERLIKECYBER
Cyfe is an all-in-one dashboard that helps you monitor and analyze data found across all your online services like Google Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook, WordPress, Zendesk, Twitter and more from one single location in real-time.
- 50% off Premium for 1 year
- Promo link
- Code: TA5016
Slaask enables you to set up a dedicated live chat channel on your Slack.
- 24% off any paid plan
- Promo link
WP Engine provides best-in-class customer service on top of innovation-driven technology. This is why over 30,000 customers in 120 countries have chosen us for their mission critical WordPress hosting needs.
- 30% off first payment
- Promo link
- Code: cyberwknd
GitKraken is the downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.
- 33% off immediately
- Promo link
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
- $10 in free MongoDB Atlas credit
- Promo link
- Code: goAtlas10
Get to all your files from anywhere, on any device, and share them with anyone.
- 25% off first year of Dropbox Pro
- Promo link
Losant is a complete developer platform for quickly, easily, and securely building connected experiences and solutions.
- 20% off ALL kits
- Promo link
Email list verify provides a 97% match rate and no false positives. You can verify emails within your application or website with our real-time API.
- 50% off ALL packages
- Promo link
- Code: CMONDAY50
Proto.io supports all the major mobile gestures and touch events like tap, tap-hold, swipe, pinch, and zoom. Interaction designers are not limited to a single ‘link’ transition anymore. Instead they can apply animated screen transitions like slide, fade, pop, flip, flow, and turn.
- 30% off all annual plans
- Promo link
- Code: BLACKFRIDAY2016
Creative Cloud gives you the entire collection of Adobe desktop and mobile apps, from essentials like Photoshop to innovative new tools like Adobe XD. You also get built-in templates to jump-start your designs and step-by-step tutorials to help you get up to speed quickly and sharpen your skills. It′s your entire creative world, all in one place.
- 20% off all apps plan
- Promo link
Outside of your tools, being a great developer nowadays requires constant self-improvement and growth. Reading, following, and learning should be your go-to habits. But sometimes learning how to use tools can be more frustrating than choosing them. Here are a few deals to help you advance your expertise and continue your growth into 2017:
EnvatoTuts+ hosts thousands of online courses on various programming languages and technologies. Courses can range from 10 minutes to a few hours, giving viewers the opportunity for quick touch-ups or deep learning sessions.
- All courses $3
- Promo link
CloudAcademy.com is a platform to learn cloud computing and test your skills. New content on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and more every month.
- All plans 50% off
- Promo link
Code School teaches web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts.
- 50%+ off
- Promo link
Get 2 years unrestricted access to over $20,000 worth of books and courses on the latest development and design technologies. Updated monthly.
- 50% off immediately
- Promo link
The Rails Tutorial is the resource for mastering Ruby on Rails. This includes the updated version for the recent release of Rails 5.
- 40% off for a limited time
- Promo link
If you've been wanting to sink your teeth into React, this course covers 5 hours of video tutorials on how React relates to other technologies and a hands-on view of how to use it in your next application.
- 50% off all courses
- Promo link
A premium training course to strengthen your core JavaScript skills and master all that ES6 has to offer.
- 50% off immediately
- Promo link
Authors and publishers use Leanpub to publish amazing in-progress and completed books. Grab your ebooks from Leanpub for the best deals around. Here we've put found an amazing list of the top Leanpub deals.
- Up to 80% off
- Promo link
O'Reilly publishes most of the quintessential programming books on the market. They partner with leading experts to cover thousands of topics across hundres of programming languages.
- 50-60% on ALL tech ebooks & video training
- Promo link
Official Linux Foundation Training
The Linux Foundation is creating the largest shared technology investment in history. They are a non-profit technology trade association chartered to promote, protect and advance Linux and collaborative development.
- 60% off ALL Linux Sysadmin Training (and a free t-shirt)
- Promo link
Explore innovative courses in design, marketing, technology, and data—online and on campuses worldwide.
- 50% off ALL on-campus workshops
- Promo link
- Code: MYGA50
With more than 2,900 journals and 200,000 books, Springer offers many opportunities to grow your reading list this winter.
- All computer science books $9.99
- Promo link
With One Month's affordable and fun online bootcamps, you can learn Python, Javascript, or Ruby in just 30 days.
- 50% off ALL bootcamps
- Promo link
What better way to celebrate your favorite teams than with some good ol' fashioned swag? Check out some of these awesome deals on gear:
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
- 30% off all GitHub Shop items. Plus free shipping for any orders over $30.
- Promo link
- Code: OCTOCYBER2016
MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform.
- FREE vinyl Freddie toy with any order
- Promo link
Discard single lines of code. Cherry-pick commits. Work with Submodules. Use git-svn and git-flow... Tower is as powerful as Git - but without the sharp edges.
- 20% off ALL shirts, posters, and mugs
- Promo link
DigitalOcean takes the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.
- 25% off ALL shirts and accessories
- Promo link
- Code: DOcyber25
We'll continue updating this list as new deals pop up. If you see something you like, don't wait! Most of these deals expire soon.