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scarsam

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    Show HN: Inspection Credit – read your inspection, draft the negotiation

    Hi HN. I built Inspection Credit because the inspection-response window in a home purchase is one of the worst-designed parts of the entire transaction. You get a 60 to 90 page ins…

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    Comment #47996141

    Sorry about that. State pages were doing live aggregates per request and the HN spike killed them. Pre-rendered overnight; Colorado loads instantly now.

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    Comment #47994484

    Hadn't come across govauctions.app before today. Idea came out of a weekly idea bot I run; turns out the same gap was obvious enough that two of us built for it within a few weeks.…

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    Comment #47993685

    Maybe some chrome extension causing this on your end?

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    Comment #47993669

    Just shipped DC.

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    Comment #47993667

    Not that I've built. The UK has GovBuying but that's procurement, not surplus. If you know of an aggregator I'd be curious.

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    Comment #47993662

    Not yet. Plain Postgres FTS today. Will add -term exclusion.

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    Comment #47993660

    Easy ship. Will get state, category, and ending-soon feeds out this week.

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    Comment #47993657

    On the list, in next week's batch with Guam. Feel free to drop some of the ones you would like to get included!

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    Comment #47993648

    Deal of the Day is whatever scored highest yesterday. Sometimes glamorous, often a golf cart.

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    Comment #47993634

    Some are real bargains, some are landlocked or carry HOA back-fees not in the listing. The good ones tend to disappear in the first hour.

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    Comment #47993625

    On the list. Blocker is geocoding coverage; not all sources publish lat/long and address quality varies. Backfill in progress.

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    Comment #47993619

    Yes, queries are wrapped in unstable_cache (using Next.js) (5min TTL); the box was state landing pages doing aggregates uncached. Pre-rendered those overnight.

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    Comment #47993615

    Should be working better now.

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    Comment #47993611

    Should be quicker now!

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    Comment #47993609

    Tuned the ISR cache, should be quicker now!