Publish the government data nobody can read, and email it weekly

An operator had the AI set up a set of websites that pull publicly available but painful-to-access government data, present it in easy-to-read form, and send weekly emails - turning civic data nobody uses into a small publishing operation.

How it works

Identify hard-to-access public datasets
The AI builds sites that pull and reformat the data
Pages update from the source
Weekly emails go out to readers

Why it’s worth knowing

The business is other people's neglect: data the government already publishes, made legible and delivered on a schedule.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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