BidHeron
Public tender alerts for the UK, EU, US and Canada
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Public tenders are spread across separate government portals, each with its own search and alerts. BidHeron reads Find a Tender and Contracts Finder (UK), TED (EU), SAM.gov (US federal) and CanadaBuys every two hours and puts them in one search. Search free with no account. Save an alert and get new matches by email: weekly on the free plan, daily on Pro ($19/month or $171/year) with up to five alerts, a plain-English summary and a fit score with a one-line reason for each tender.
PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: government contracting intelligence platforms · 51 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▲ +17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Government
- Search & retrieval
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Sales
- SaaS
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Could you build this?
Partial While the search portal and email alert system are standard CRUD, consistently parsing, normalizing, and syncing schemas across multiple international government API and scrape feeds is non-trivial.
What it would actually take: A sustainable platform requires individual connectors tailored to UK (Contracts Finder/Find a Tender), EU (TED API), US (SAM.gov API), and CanadaBuys, each with distinct authentication, data structures, and rate limits. The architecture needs robust ETL pipelines (Airflow or Temporal) to ingest and map disparate tender schemas into standard models (such as OCDS), coupled with a full-text search cluster like Elasticsearch or Meilisearch. Managing brittle scrapers, rate-limiting, and data deduplication requires specialized data-pipeline engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 138 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #34 of 139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 220 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Government Tenders SA · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- BidEasy · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GovBidFit · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- askTender · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- GovContract Radar · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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