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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 ____tom____ »

me_online wrote: post #64
baby_souffle wrote: post #60

Slow, but working well. Really needs a way to refine search results to "within X miles of $someGeoPointOrZipCode". I am seeing a lot of neat stuff in California ... but i'm not going to drive 7 hours to go pick it up :)

Agree, or at least a filter by town, which seems to already be included in listings.

Not by town, please. There are about 100 in the Bay Area. That's just useless.

Lat long of the town center would work. I don't need precise, but not seeing something 100 meters from me because it's in the next municipal unit is aggravating.

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

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Post by zdragnar »

kjs3 wrote: post #25
player_piano wrote: post #16

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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.

Sorry to derail...but have we now collectively realized Vercel is kinda crap? I missed the memo.

To be honest, I don't think I've seen anyone mention Vercel here or on Reddit in any way that could be construed as positive in quite awhile.

Most of that is tends to be over pricing or Next.js, when there's probably loads of quietly happy people using it, but... Those people are quiet, so it is hard to tell.

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

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Post by m9a4r3a3n »

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

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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.

Where did you hosted those scrapers? where do you store scraped tenders?

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

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Post by markdown »

baby_souffle wrote: post #60

Slow, but working well. Really needs a way to refine search results to "within X miles of $someGeoPointOrZipCode". I am seeing a lot of neat stuff in California ... but i'm not going to drive 7 hours to go pick it up :)

https://bidprowl.com/listing/lot-of-355-alcatel-kyocera-soni...

This is GOLD, Jerry, GOLD!

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

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Post by markdown »

sikozu wrote: post #31

I'm loving how the deal of the day is a golf cart. https://bidprowl.com/deal-of-the-day/2026-04-30

This looks to be a vacant residential lot for under $3k: https://bidprowl.com/listing/vacant-lot-in-santa-clarita-los...

What am I missing?

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

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Post by 83 »

player_piano wrote: post #17
83 wrote: post #15

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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!

That is quite the highlight, now you have access to a lathe :) I also bought a large lathe from a government surplus site, it's by far my favorite tool.

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

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Post by 83 »

Barbing wrote: post #48
83 wrote: post #14

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

One of the top reasons auction hunters hate gun control The worst ones will try to add a few extra holes the night before the auction

You're probably kidding but I wouldn't put it past someone. Unscrupulous people bring antifreeze in gatorade bottles to the car auction and dump it under cars they want. Be careful out there.

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

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Post by scarsam »

gavmor wrote: post #49
player_piano wrote: post #11

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

A lot of your "Madison, WI" listings are actually in Greenbay.

Thanks for flagging. The source's free-text city field gets used directly when I should be deriving from the zip. Adding a zip-to-city normalization step. Will fix.
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