【爆速】政府の公売・競売を一括検索！「GovAuctions」で掘り出し物をハックする

政府の公売サイト（押収品や備品の売却など）で掘り出し物を探すのが昔から好きでした。例えば今、サンディエゴのDHS（国土安全保障省）が26トンの鉛弾を1,000ドルから出品していたりします。シュールですよね。 ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ただ、これまではとにかく苦行でした。UIが壊滅的な数十ものサイトを巡回し、読み込みに時間がかかるページを耐え、ブラウザの「戻る」ボタンを押すと勝手にトップに戻される……といったストレスの塊だったんです。

そこで、あらゆる政府余剰品のオークションを横断検索できる「GovAuctions」を開発しました。場所、カテゴリ、価格での絞り込みはもちろん、ウォッチリスト機能や、条件にマッチした新着商品の通知機能も備えています。

ぜひ触ってみて、感想や改善案を教えてください。もしあなたの近くで面白いものが見つかったら、それもぜひ教えてくださいね！

This is a real public service. More people can find better deals, this increases the pool of bidders, taxpayers will get more money for the auction. Discoverability is hugely important to these auctions.

Doesn't seem accurate considering GovDeals has auctions in NY, NJ and CT listed but your website has nothing.

Pretty cool. But a lot of it doesn't really work once you click into a particular state. For example, from this page, if you click on "All auctions in Georgia", it lists all auctions in the country. Or if you click on "electronics", it doesn't show just electronics in Georgia.

https://www.govauctions.app/auctions/georgia (https://www.govauctions.app/auctions/georgia)

Suggestions:

Put the parameters into the url so searches can be bookmarked, like zip codes, terms, filters, and other aspects can be shared easily as well.

Description search both include (like i7, 16GB) which is good for electronics and exclude for example exclude "repair" or "needs repair" which is helpful for many things.

Category specific filters, vehicle millage range, year

Keywords classification filters like pickup, delivery, payment methods, how many days you have to pay if known, etc.

You are probably already thinking along these lines for some of them, just an encouragement to implement. Yes categorization/filters can be fuzzy(commas, which word or plurals used, etc), so feel free to put the [beta] or [experimental] tag until a recipe that gets most of the stuff works.

Thanks for building this, I bookmarked it and already shared it with a few friends.

The title claims to search every platform but I don't see any evidence of either https://www.govdeals.com/ (https://www.govdeals.com/) or https://www.publicsurplus.com/ (https://www.publicsurplus.com/) which are probably the biggest government auction sites.

Government auctions are interesting. Not a lot of information on pricing.

My dad bid on multiple LCVPs, guessing on a reasonable price for them based on what the engines were worth.

Fortunately he only won one of them. If all 4 had shown up at our house, my mom would have killed him.

Interesting aside, the casting date on the transmission housing was 1945 - but the hulls were built in 1967. Those Detroit Diesel 6-71s engines / transmissions last a long time!

I had no idea one could buy a Blackhawk for $1.5M

Thanks for building this!

Feature request: I'd love to be able to share a search results page with a friend. If you update the url to include the location or zip code I am searching for (ex: https://www.govauctions.app/feed/12345 (https://www.govauctions.app/feed/12345)) this would be possible.

Just keep in mind if you're providing value the scrapers will soon appear to claim it for themselves... look at what Craigslist does to protect their data though you want all traffic as you get off the ground.