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by player_piano 25d ago
Over the last weekend, I rifled through over 370,000 completed auctions on govauctions.app, to see if I could find any fun and unintuitive patterns. About six potentially profitable patterns are supported by the data. A subset of the data i
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by player_piano 2mo ago
So, Github Actions is currently at two nines of uptime?
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Ask HN: Sectors that are inherently resistant to AI-ification?
4 points by player_piano 2mo ago|7 comments
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by player_piano 3mo ago
Real estate specifically is very hard to "value" sight unseen from a bidding perspective. The post I shared - with the information on what to look out for as well as possible additional costs - is part of helping people to underst
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by player_piano 3mo ago
Correct, there are about 3,000 real estate listings right now on the main site: https://govauctions.app/feed?category=real-estate
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by player_piano 3mo ago
Yes, sorry, the map UI could be better. You can zoom in to the state level, which hopefully will help a little with not losing context.
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by player_piano 3mo ago
The data are from HUD, Fannie Mae HomePath, and Freddie Mac HomeSteps. There's a methodology section towards the bottom of the page.
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by player_piano 3mo ago
Apologies, clicking on the dot should also take you to the listing.
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by player_piano 3mo ago
Appreciate it, but no need - happy you found it interesting. If you end up buying one of these, let me know!
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Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k(govauctions.app)
107 points by player_piano 3mo ago|115 comments
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by player_piano 3mo ago
Over the weekend, I pulled some data from my website to find the cheapest homes you can buy from the US federal government. The outliers (a $3,000 house in Flint, MI) are often in quite a state of disrepair, but there are lots of...lots...w
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by player_piano 3mo ago
Oh boy ok thank you for the screenshot :-) I'll see what I can do.
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by player_piano 3mo ago
Indeed, I recently added an API with a free tier ( https://govauctions.app/developers ) If the free cap is too low for you to get an understanding of what you can do with it, let me know. Let me look at adding fallback JS.
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Show HN: GovAuctions.app now in US,UK,CA,AU with deal scores and bid estimates(govauctions.app)
4 points by player_piano 3mo ago|4 comments
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by player_piano 5mo ago
This sounds like a fun Saturday morning creative writing activity - "lot of 150,000 surplus government Cybertrucks, lightly used"
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by player_piano 5mo ago
Thank you. I think the highlight so far has been one of my friends buying an industrial lathe that he found on the site!
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by player_piano 5mo ago
I 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.
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by player_piano 5mo ago
Thanks for tagging! I got a "traffic spike" notification from Hackernews for my site ( https://govauctions.app ) and wondered what was going on :-)
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by player_piano 6mo ago
Oh Northern line, I would recognize that ear-splitting screech anywhere.
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by player_piano 6mo ago
I'm not scraping sites like govdeals, so no need to worry about that thankfully.
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by player_piano 6mo ago
Ok, I'll dig into this more.
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by player_piano 6mo ago
Thanks, definitely on my to-do list.
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by player_piano 6mo ago
Thanks, appreciate the advice.
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by player_piano 6mo ago
I believe this should now be working. Thanks for the suggestion.
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by player_piano 6mo ago
Will look into this, I have seen some issues where the API data is not reflective of the current bid status.
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by player_piano 6mo ago
It's the fuel cost that gets you...
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by player_piano 6mo ago
Can't speak for every listing on here, but depending on the state and type of auction there can be lots of issues that you have to be aware of, like physical issues with the property itself, liens on the property, and even potentially
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by player_piano 6mo ago
Hi, yes, my apologies. One thing I'm currently fixing is the workflow for bringing in many of the listings that sites like GovDeals cover but are not part of the available APIs. Scraping sites like GovDeals is kind of shady and not som
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by player_piano 6mo ago
Happy to. This is a side-project, so I spun it up pretty quickly using Next.js and Tailwind, and it is hosted on Vercel right now. I use a few free government APIs for the data (listed on the site, you can sign up for a key for free for all
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by player_piano 6mo ago
Appreciate it. Some of the bugs I have been able to fix today, but these listings actually come from diverse and in some cases hard and time-consuming to parse sources. I have no intention of scraping govdeals or anything like that, which m

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