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player_piano 5 hours ago

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

craftkiller 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ah thank you for your site! Before your post, I didn't know the government auctioned off homes online and through following the links to the auctions I learned about the FHA $100 down payment program.

83 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

player_piano 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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

gavmor an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

rovr138 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Curious, what are you using for notifications like this?

player_piano 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

xnx 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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.

player_piano 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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

sikozu 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh that would be fantastic.

kjs3 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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