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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

#91
post #54

def some price/updating lags i saw a listing that ends in 39 minutes and was at $806 i click to be taken to the listing and its $1,270.00

Fair. The sub-cron only refreshed lots in the next 24h. Tightened it last night: anything ending soon refreshes every 30min, and anything not seen in 48h gets re-checked. Should be much closer to source on endings now.

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

#92
post #72

Weird, the first two auction items I checked on for Oregon (sorted by highest) were already bid for and won. Is this not clearing out finished auctions?

Real bug. Adapter wasn't reading "lot closed" pages and was relying on a 7-day stale window. Tightened to 5 days plus a 30-min priority refresh on anything stale > 48h. Each adapter now flips status on the source's signal directly.

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

#93
post #9

Cool idea, I tapped the vehicles / heavy equipment tabs expecting to be taken to listings. Nothing happened. Maybe these should all take you to a page that lets you sign up to see listings?

Fixing today. Categories should render an empty state with a signup prompt rather than a blank page.

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

#95

The site is slow as hell. I've been waiting for 3 minutes and haven't had results.

Caught me with the state pages doing live aggregates per request. Spent yesterday pre-rendering them and tuning the ISR caches. Should feel sharper now.

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

#100

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 :)

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