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Show HN: GovAuctions.app now in US,UK,CA,AU with deal scores and bid estimates

https://govauctions.app
2•player_piano•1h ago
I posted govauctions.app (which aggregates government auctions) back in April and got a lot of helpful feedback and suggestions. I was encouraged to keep working on the site, which now has a growing base of active users and paying customers who find it useful. So thank you for the support.

I've spent the last couple of months increasing auction coverage inside and beyond the US, improving data accuracy, and building paid features for serious buyers. Most visitors are just curious about the unusual stuff you can buy from the government, but serious customers care about coverage, sales comps and margins - so I've been spending time trying to make those robust.

I also maintain a 'research & data' section (https://govauctions.app/research) with market information like median sales prices over time, and have made some of the data publicly accessible as an open dataset.

So far: - Around 100k visitors. - More than 200k auctions processed. - 1 friend who bought a boat he found on the site.

Hope you like the updates - I welcome any thoughts and advice.

Comments

The_SamminAter•51m ago
Thank you for adding more countries! Is there an API which can be exposed to the user? (For integrating into a personal TUI, no LLM funny business). I’ve looked into querying my local gov auction site, and it ended up being quite a pain and ultimately not successful.

On a bit of a more serious note, would it be possible to add fallback js to support older devices?

Thanks again

player_piano•45m 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.

The_SamminAter•37m ago
Wonderful! I’ll check that out.

For context regarding JS, this is what the site looks like on my phone (iOS 14): https://imgur.com/a/K0OGEma . While Reynard (browser) does make it work mostly, the sort by selection doesn’t - a minor complaint to an otherwise much better experience for accessing gov auctions.

player_piano•36m ago
Oh boy ok thank you for the screenshot :-) I'll see what I can do.

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