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I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by player_piano »

xnx wrote: post #6

Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

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

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by rovr138 »

player_piano wrote: post #11
xnx wrote: post #6

Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

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

Curious, what are you using for notifications like this?

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by 83 »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #8

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.

Or when you've been wanting to one up your neighbor's boat by buying a drug running speedboat with bullet holes.

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by 83 »

player_piano wrote: post #11
xnx wrote: post #6

Clone of "GovAuctions" from 3 weeks ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662945

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

Your site is awesome. I too am tired of checking five different government auction websites every day, each with a terrible interface from 2005.

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by player_piano »

rovr138 wrote: post #13
player_piano wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Curious, what are you using for notifications like this?

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.

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by player_piano »

83 wrote: post #15
player_piano wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Your site is awesome. I too am tired of checking five different government auction websites every day, each with a terrible interface from 2005.

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

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by xnx »

player_piano wrote: post #16
rovr138 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious, what are you using for notifications like this?

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.

> 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.

Re: I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

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Post by player_piano »

xnx wrote: post #18
player_piano wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 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.

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