I saw Irish planning-lead tools charging €30/month, so I built a free hobby version
I was looking at tools that surface Irish planning applications and construction leads, and saw a few services charging around €30/month for it. Fair enough, keeping messy public data sources usable is real work. But I got curious whether I could write a simpler version myself, mostly as a hobby project, and make it free for people who might find it useful.
So I built SiteScout.
It checks the public planning lists from the four Dublin councils every three hours, adds new or changed applications to a searchable index, and tries to make the data easier to use by grouping projects and relevant trades.
There’s no paid plan or waitlist. It’s free for now while the hosting and LLM costs stay manageable. Would genuinely love feedback. If people actually use it, I’m happy to add more councils over time!