u/jorik_bordiur

Been building this idea up for the last two months, all bootstrapped, nothing for sale. I just want to know if I built something useful or just *something*.

The problem: California counties auction tax-defaulted property, and the "list" is usually a 1,000+ row PDF where a genuinely cheap lot and a worthless landlocked desert square look identical. Hours of tedious cross-referencing per sale.

So I built a tool that pulls a county's list, cross-checks every parcel against the county's own assessor/GIS data, filters it down with rules you can audit, and publishes it as a free, sortable, downloadable table with the reasoning shown. No login, no paywall.

Fun finding that fell out of it: in one county's sale, cca. 72% of parcels open at or above the county's own assessed value (i.e. the "minimum bid" isn't a discount). That's the kind of thing it's meant to surface.

Nerd stuff: Astro 5 static site, inline SVG charts computed from the real data, no tracking, deploys as flat files.

Looking for: is the core idea useful? Is the site clear? Would you trust it, and what would make you trust it more? Brutal feedback welcome.

Not selling anything — no course, no paywall, no email wall to read it. Just a hobby project I want a sanity check on.

I got into California tax-deed sales and got annoyed that every county "list" is a giant PDF where the good parcels and the junk look identical. So I started pulling the lists, cross-checking each parcel against the county's *own* assessor/GIS records, and cutting them down with rules you can actually read.

Stuff that surprised me:

- San Bernardino's July sale: of ~1,193 priced non-timeshare parcels, about **858 (~72%) open at or above the county's entire assessed value.** The "minimum bid" often isn't a discount at all.

- The most extreme lot: county values it at **$241**, opening bid **$88,341** (366×). Almost always a data/assessment quirk — never a bargain.

- Riverside: 946 parcels on the list, ~175 I'd actually spend diligence hours on.

Everything's free and the sources are shown so you can check my work: lot-brief.com/sales/ (sortable/downloadable), and there's a write-up of how I read a sale in the research section.

I'm genuinely just trying to figure out if this is useful to anyone but me. If you do this for real — what would make it worth using? What am I getting wrong? Roast it.

Obligatory: this is desk research, not advice — assessed value ≠ market value, verify title/access/everything before you bid.

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*858 (~72%) open at or above the county's entire assessed value.** The "minimum bid" often isn't a discount at all.

- The most extreme lot: county values it at **$241**, opening bid **$88,341** (366×). Almost always a data/assessment quirk — never a bargain.

- Riverside: 946 parcels on the list, ~175 I'd actually spend diligence hours on.

Everything's free and the sources are shown so you can check my work: lot-brief.com/sales/ (sortable/downloadable), and there's a write-up of how I read a sale in the research section. I'm genuinely just trying to figure out if this is useful to anyone but me. If you do this for real — what would make it worth using? What am I getting wrong? Roast it.

Obligatory: this is desk research, not advice — assessed value ≠ market value, verify title/access/everything before you bid.

Game Title: Quasipuzzle

Playable Link: quasipuzzle.com

Platform: Web browser game

Description: A retro style puzzle game with over 1000 different solutions. Solve it, opt in to share your results and see how you do against players from around the world.

Absolutely free to play

Game Title: Quasi Puzzle

Playable Link: quasipuzzle.com

Platform: web browser game

Description: A simple circle puzzle online game to kick the boredom away. There are over 1000 different ways to solve this puzzle, see how many you can find. Opt-in to share your fastest times and least number of moves to solve the puzzle and see how you do compared to players around the world!

Free to Play Status:

• [V] Free to play

Involvement: I've digitized this game with the help of a friend who helped me draw all the pieces in Figma. The physical game has passed onto me from generation to generation, from my mum onto me. I actually did it for her in the first place so she could have this warm memory of when she was a kid and would spend time solving it, but I decided sharing it with everyone for free. Hopefully people will like it.

Would love to hear any feedback! Thank you!

Hi everyone! I'd like to share this simple puzzle game that I've made: quasipuzzle.com It's based on an a very old game that I got from my mom, she used to solve it as a kid. I decided to digitize it. Hope you enjoy it. Would love to hear any feedback! Thank you.