4 ms·
Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945
by xnx 6mo ago
Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945
- player_piano 6mo agoThanks for tagging! I got a "traffic spike" notification from Hackernews for my site (https://govauctions.app https://govauctions.app) and wondered what was going on :-)
- rovr138 6mo agoCurious, what are you using for notifications like this?
- player_piano 6mo agoI am still on Vercel (yes I know, trying to migrate off...) and it gives you automated alerts when there are anomalous traffic spikes. Funnily enough, I have had about 10 scrapers from various places scraping the site in the last week.
- xnx 6mo ago> I have had about 10 scrapers from various places scraping the site in the last week. I hope you're adding some fictitious entries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry) to track where those scrapes might be going.
- player_piano 6mo agoThis sounds like a fun Saturday morning creative writing activity - "lot of 150,000 surplus government Cybertrucks, lightly used"
- sikozu 6mo agoOh that would be fantastic.
- kjs3 6mo agoSorry to derail...but have we now collectively realized Vercel is kinda crap? I missed the memo.
- zdragnar 6mo agoTo be honest, I don't think I've seen anyone mention Vercel here or on Reddit in any way that could be construed as positive in quite awhile. Most of that is tends to be over pricing or Next.js, when there's probably loads of quietly happy people using it, but... Those people are quiet, so it is hard to tell.
- m9a4r3a3n 6mo agoWhere did you hosted those scrapers? where do you store scraped tenders?
- 83 6mo agoYour site is awesome. I too am tired of checking five different government auction websites every day, each with a terrible interface from 2005.
- player_piano 6mo agoThank you. I think the highlight so far has been one of my friends buying an industrial lathe that he found on the site!
- 83 6mo agoThat is quite the highlight, now you have access to a lathe :) I also bought a large lathe from a government surplus site, it's by far my favorite tool.
- craftkiller 6mo agoAh thank you for your site! Before your post, I didn't know the government auctioned off homes online and through following the links to the auctions I learned about the FHA $100 down payment program.
- edm0nd 6mo agoyeah but do you really want to live in an area that has HUD housing? Most of the time they aren't in the best areas and/or in high crime areas. also perhaps the house is gunna take 5-6 figures of work to rehab and become livable. far better ways to burn your $ unless you just really need a house ASAP to live in for a year.
- cbdevidal 6mo agoThat may be true in general but I’ve found through years of bargain hunting various items that there are always options that aren’t bad. It takes more work to find them, and you might have to wait a while until the right one comes. It’s worth pursuing.
- s5300 6mo ago[dead]
- Loughla 6mo agoIf you look in rural areas they're not too bad in terms of neighbors. But they'll absolutely have to be gutted and remodeled.
- gavmor 6mo agoA lot of your "Madison, WI" listings are actually in Greenbay.
- scarsam 6mo agoThanks for flagging. The source's free-text city field gets used directly when I should be deriving from the zip. Adding a zip-to-city normalization step. Will fix.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo agoCool, I just bought a school bus.
- deleted 6mo ago[deleted]
- beepbooptheory 6mo agoLooks like that one actually works too!
- godzillabrennus 6mo agoPeople are realizing lots of government data sources are free and building vibe coding apps around them...
- millzlane 6mo agoYea, this one had wrong and broken info all over it.
- scarsam 6mo agoHadn't come across govauctions.app before today. Idea came out of a weekly idea bot I run; turns out the same gap was obvious enough that two of us built for it within a few weeks. Well done player_piano!