I scraped the prices of over 15k plugins to create an audio plugin price history and price alerts

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  1. MusicSoftwareDeals

    MusicSoftwareDeals Ultrasonic

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    Hey there, new to the forum, but have been a lurker for quite some time...in fact probably around 11 years at this point!

    So as a producer myself, I've always been annoyed with how difficult it is to figure out:

    1. When plugins go on sale, and:
    2. The lowest price each plugin usually goes to
    3. Which store has the best price if you're looking to buy right now

    So I began scraping the prices of over 15k plugins and sample libraries across 25+ stores to generate a price history for each plugin and built a website to display the information. We've since expanded to include the functionality of being able to setup custom price alerts so you can get notified when a product hits a certain price (eg. $5 less or if it hits the previous lowest price again).

    We scrape the prices of all major stores including PiB, VSTBuzz, APD, Best Service, Audio Deluxe etc. so you can see all deals in one place at once too.

    I'm constantly working on it to improve the usability of the site and make it as useful as possible. Would love to hear what you think!

    https://www.musicsoftwaredeals.com
     
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  3. D-Music

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  4. MrLyannMusic

    MrLyannMusic Audiosexual

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    Good luck friend this is a really good idea, sounds like PCpartpicker but for audio plugins, i hope it blows up!
     
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  5. Djord Emer

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    This is insanely useful, I've been doing this myself and sometimes it takes a long time to find these info. Thanks!
     
  6. luckyLuke7

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    Cool website. Nice job.
     
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    very cool great job!
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    This will be quite helpful, thank you!
     
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  9. towerdefense

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    Love the "exclude manufacturer" options. No retail site dares to put stuff like that in.
    In fact, this site holds a ton of potential for general cataloging/sorting of plugins since KVRAudio's tagging system is so bad it's near useless.
     
  10. Tayh

    Tayh Kapellmeister

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    Well done. Thanks
     
  11. arrarr

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    Thank you for providing such a helpful webpage. I'm truly grateful for the existence of such a useful service

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    Great idea and nicely done.
     
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  13. ELpH

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    Thank you for this. Have you considered adding Sweetwater to your tracking list? Reason 12 is currently on sale there, but listed as "not on sale" on your website.
     
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    Softube Model 84 is on sale :)
     
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  15. aleksy

    aleksy Producer

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    I love the idea and how the website works!
    To be honest, I haven't heard about a handful of the listed resellers, but that's only for the better if there are good deals on there.
    Thanks for sharing your work and welcome to the forum!
     
  16. MusicSoftwareDeals

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    Thanks everyone for the overwhelmingly positive feedback. I'm continually working on improving the website each week - currently working on speeding it up as its a little slower than I'd like so it should be loading at 2x to 3x faster within a few more days when we push those changes live.

    I'm also going to add a sidebar shortly that will help with navigation as its missing links to specific pages right now.

    Love to hear any feedback people have!
     
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  17. Chaindog

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    I love this website!
    I already got IK Multimedia Sampletank Max for just 58 Euros (originally 89,had some spare Jam Point $), IK Multimedia Mixbox for 30$, and right now I'm about to get TDR Nova GE for 20$ on Audiodeluxe's Sale. So happy!
    Keep up the good work!
     
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    Absolute goat, thanks man ! I'll put this in bookmark for as soon as I'm less required to do gracious 'donations' to my wonderful government.. could be very useful !
     
  19. real

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    Fantastic work! Extremely useful site. Easy to use and very stable. Great job!
     
  20. MusicSoftwareDeals

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    Awesome great to hear guys thanks!
     
  21. real

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    I remember watching this video a while ago and it pretty much addresses your issue.
    What the video will show is that you can export TRACKS or export CHANNELS.
    You can also choose which tracks/channels to export in the export options.
     
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