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Re:Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions ... by wiseowise on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:50PM (#47666023)
That’s nice. Care to write technical write up? What’s the tech stack, expected load, are you planning to monetize it, etc.?
Re:Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions ... by player_piano on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:01PM (#47666208)
Happy to. This is a side-project, so I spun it up pretty quickly using Next.js and Tailwind, and it is hosted on Vercel right now.

I use a few free government APIs for the data (listed on the site, you can sign up for a key for free for all of them I think), plus a custom workflow I built that parses and ingests many other online auctions that states are mandated to make public, but which aren't part of any API or data pipeline I could find.

Expected load - about 1/10 of what it has seen today :) I had to scramble to make things more robust once this post became more popular, and am now looking at a few different options for hosting.

This was not really intended as a business - there is a very light "subscription" option right now, for users who want to create many alerts. I mainly wanted to try and fix this problem, share the solution, and get some feedback.