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I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

https://bidprowl.com
79•scarsam•2h 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•1h ago
Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945
player_piano•1h 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•1h ago
Curious, what are you using for notifications like this?
player_piano•53m 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•51m 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•43m ago
This sounds like a fun Saturday morning creative writing activity - "lot of 150,000 surplus government Cybertrucks, lightly used"
kjs3•12m ago
Sorry to derail...but have we now collectively realized Vercel is kinda crap? I missed the memo.
83•55m 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•52m 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•1h ago
You need to cache search queries.
1970-01-01•1h 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•57m ago
Or when you've been wanting to one up your neighbor's boat by buying a drug running speedboat with bullet holes.
cucumber3732842•41m ago
Or want to get absolutely ripped off by the non-government sellers that are somehow allowed on those platforms. The whole point of Govdeals et al is that the seller is a known-ish quantity. If I wanted to roll the dice on garbage with fresh paint I'd be on Ritchie bros.

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•1h 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•1h 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•44m ago
Not responding on states links. Maybe increase the cache and add another compute to server scaling
graybeardhacker•38m 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. "

pwr1•21m ago
Nice execution. How are you handling deduplication when the same asset shows up on multiple sites?
kdot•17m ago
Missed the District of Columbia

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I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

https://bidprowl.com
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