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So, Github Actions is currently at two nines of uptime?

I anticipate a raft of answers along the lines of "AI + robots will automate everything eventually", but am more interested in areas where you think there is an inherent or structu…

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 addit…

Correct, there are about 3,000 real estate listings right now on the main site: https://govauctions.app/feed?category=real-estate

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.

The data are from HUD, Fannie Mae HomePath, and Freddie Mac HomeSteps. There's a methodology section towards the bottom of the page.

Apologies, clicking on the dot should also take you to the listing.

Appreciate it, but no need - happy you found it interesting. If you end up buying one of these, let me know!

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 …

Oh boy ok thank you for the screenshot :-) I'll see what I can do.

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 m…

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…

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

Thank you. I think the highlight so far has been one of my friends buying an industrial lathe that he found on the site!

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 …

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

Oh Northern line, I would recognize that ear-splitting screech anywhere.

I'm not scraping sites like govdeals, so no need to worry about that thankfully.

Ok, I'll dig into this more.

Thanks, definitely on my to-do list.

Thanks, appreciate the advice.

I believe this should now be working. Thanks for the suggestion.

Will look into this, I have seen some issues where the API data is not reflective of the current bid status.