Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once

Post by kmoser » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 2:05 AM UTC

player_piano wrote: post #24

venusenvy47 wrote: post #23

Pretty cool. But a lot of it doesn't really work once you click into a particular state. For example, from this page, if you click on "All auctions in Georgia", it lists all auctions in the country. Or if you click on "electronics", it doesn't show just electronics in Georgia. https://www.govauctions.app/auctions/georgia

Thanks for surfacing this. Not sure why this is breaking, but I am looking into it and will fix it as soon as I can. Update: This should now be working the intended way (ie for Georgia, showing only GA results when you click out, and filtering for the category within GA).

Post by Onavo » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC

player_piano wrote: post #7

carefree-bob wrote: post #5

This is a real public service. More people can find better deals, this increases the pool of bidders, taxpayers will get more money for the auction. Discoverability is hugely important to these auctions.

Thank you. Yes, you could definitely say that I'm undermining a personal arbitrage advantage on this corner of the Internet, but I couldn't resist trying to "fix" it and better surface all of these woefully inefficient mini-marketplaces.

Post by edinetdb » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:42 AM UTC

Post by player_piano » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

leeknoww wrote: post #76

The point about govdeals missing is real, but in practice most of these sites block scraping aggressively for good reason. The operational cost of maintaining scrapers against hostile targets is non-trivial. Curious what the OP's plan is when they start rate-limiting or serving honeypot data.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 5:48 AM UTC

player_piano wrote: post #33

molticrystal wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RSS Feeds of searches would be great, I know alerts exist, but for this community being able to get data through alternative methods, especially RSS is very appreciated.

Noted. Crazy that as I was building this I was wondering whether I should be designing it as much for agent browsing as for humans. Update: search params are now passed into the URL