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Subbasta
A functional replacement (listing ingestion, search, notifications) is realistic for one capable developer to build and maintain; nothing on the site indicates irreproducible data, proprietary models, or regulatory barriers.
Visit website↗Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$50one-off22 h to build
$30/mo3 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Ingest new auction listings, store them, let users search/filter listings, and send notifications for matched auctions.
What it still won’t have
- Any official affiliation or legal audit/validation from the Law Courts
- Guaranteed accuracy or legal status of auction data
- Proprietary or curated workflows the original site may provide
- Polish of a production product (mobile apps, heavy UX refinements, multilingual support)
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
Subbasta does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a small web app using Django (or Flask) + Postgres, deployed on a single VPS (DigitalOcean). Core features: 1) periodic scraper job (Celery or cron) that fetches and parses judicial auction listings into a normalized Postgres schema, with deduplication and timestamping; 2) HTTP UI with listing index, search and filter by location/price/date, and detail pages; 3) user accounts with saved searches and email notifications via SendGrid; 4) admin CSV export and basic logging. Out of scope: legal verification of listings, payment processing, and mobile native apps. Include error handling for scraper failures, tests for scraping/parsing and API endpoints, and Docker-based deployment scripts and simple Terraform or Ansible for provisioning.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Build verdict base78
- Evidence score78
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
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Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productSubbasta Malta — Judicial Property Auctions at the Law Courts
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
