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Agree with not getting involved in feature creep. There are hundreds of failed civic tech projects, mostly because they tried to do too much. Users do want "pos
by tfgg 10y ago
Agree with not getting involved in feature creep. There are hundreds of failed civic tech projects, mostly because they tried to do too much. Users do want "positions" or "issues" etc. but those are really hard to find / build good data for. That's the next level!
epoch_100: Stick to making an awesome data source and interface to solve the one problem you've picked :)
In the UK mySociety does similar things, their WriteToThem services gives a drill-down on the politicians for a given postcode. You'd probably be really interested in their http://www.everypolitician.org/ http://www.everypolitician.org/ project, which is trying to do this for the entire planet -- but generally working from the top down.
I'm involved with https://democracyclub.org.uk/ https://democracyclub.org.uk/, which works particularly on developing really good election data. epoch_100, reach out to one of us if you want to chat :)