I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

59•scarsam•1h ago

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bbstats•1h ago

First thing I searched was Pokemon cards and found items with bids at 50% higher than market value...either shill bidding or folks who are bidding blindly.

reactordev•1h ago

Surprised you even got it to load.

yodon•1h ago

Server load issues? Home page loads. Individual states don't seem to.

xnx•58m ago

Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

player_piano•38m ago

Thanks for tagging! I got a "traffic spike" notification from Hackernews for my site (https://govauctions.app) and wondered what was going on :-)

rovr138•35m ago

Curious, what are you using for notifications like this?

player_piano•24m 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.

xnx•22m 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) to track where those scrapes might be going.

player_piano•14m ago

This sounds like a fun Saturday morning creative writing activity - "lot of 150,000 surplus government Cybertrucks, lightly used"

83•26m ago

Your 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•23m 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!

DevX101•58m ago

You need to cache search queries.

1970-01-01•47m ago

US Gov auctions are great when you want 400 of something broken or want to travel through 3 states for a $1000 mil-spec kitchen sink.

83•28m ago

Or when you've been wanting to one up your neighbor's boat by buying a drug running speedboat with bullet holes.

cucumber3732842•12m ago

Or want to get absolutely ripped off by the non-government sellers that are somehow allowed on those platforms.

Govdeals managed services (or whatever they call it now) is just as questionable as 3rd party sellers on any given big bog store's ecommerce "platform".

sjducb•43m ago

Cool idea, I tapped the vehicles / heavy equipment tabs expecting to be taken to listings. Nothing happened. Maybe these should all take you to a page that lets you sign up to see listings?

zikduruqe•39m ago

Can I finally find a cosmoline packed Jeep in the original crate for $50? /s

I wish I had jumped on those offers back when they were in the back of Boys Life, Popular Mechanics, and SOF magazines back in the day.

spate141•15m ago

Not responding on states links. Maybe increase the cache and add another compute to server scaling

graybeardhacker•9m ago

Looks like you got the Hacker News hug of death. "Oops Something went wrong

The server is under heavy load. Please try again in a moment. "