r/civictech

Built a free tool to find community grants — looking for feedback
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Built a free tool to find community grants — looking for feedback

I put together a simple, free directory to help people track down grassroots community funding:

https://fundni.org

No signups, just basic filters and direct links.
I’d really appreciate anyone having a quick look and letting me know what feels clunky, what's broken, or if there are obvious local funds I’ve missed.

Thanks

u/alvynmcq — 1 day ago
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I built a polling tool that tracks voter accuracy instead of just crowd opinions

Most survey tools ask 50 random people what they think looks best. The problem? Crowds are often wrong about what actually converts in real life.

To solve this, I built Verdict: a poll platform powered by Verdict Intelligence.

How it works:

  1. Upload 2 designs, landing page heroes, or thumbnails.
  2. Run a poll across our panel.
  3. After you launch, input the actual real-world winner (e.g., “Option B got 15% more clicks”).
  4. Verdict tracks voter accuracy over time. Next time, you get both the Crowd Vote and the Intelligence Verdict (what historically accurate voters chose).

Free tests for r/civictech:

Drop a link or screenshot of your design, hero image, or app icon in the comments. I’ll run a free Verdict test for you today and reply with your accuracy breakdown!

Check it out here: http://giveverdict.com

I would love your feedback on the landing page and concept!

u/RayanBuilds — 1 day ago
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Procuro sócio para projeto de inteligência de dados políticos

Estou procurando alguém para entrar como sócio em um projeto que finalizei o desenvolvimento há alguns meses: Critério Político.

A plataforma reúne e organiza dados públicos sobre parlamentares, permitindo consultar informações como gastos, presença, votações, projetos e outros indicadores em uma única interface.

A ideia é transformar dados públicos dispersos em uma ferramenta simples de consulta e análise.

O projeto já está desenvolvido e funcionando. Neste momento, procuro alguém que possa entrar como sócio, ajudando principalmente na parte de escalarmos.

Procuro alguém que queira realmente construir o negócio junto, participar das decisões e assumir responsabilidade pelo crescimento do projeto.

Se você tiver experiência com startups, GovTech, dados, mídia, vendas, marketing ou produtos digitais, pode fazer sentido conversarmos.

Quem tiver interesse, pode comentar aqui ou me chamar por DM.
Posso apresentar o projeto, o que já foi desenvolvido e a visão para os próximos passos.

https://app.criteriopolitico.com.br

u/Ok_Substance1369 — 7 days ago

Procuro sócio para projeto de inteligência de dados políticos

Estou procurando alguém para entrar como sócio em um projeto que finalizei o desenvolvimento há alguns meses: **Critério Político**.

A plataforma reúne e organiza dados públicos sobre parlamentares, permitindo consultar informações como gastos, presença, votações, projetos e outros indicadores em uma única interface.

A ideia é transformar dados públicos dispersos em uma ferramenta simples de consulta e análise.

O projeto já está desenvolvido e funcionando. Neste momento, procuro alguém que possa entrar **como sócio**, ajudando principalmente na parte de escalarmos.

Procuro alguém que queira realmente construir o negócio junto, participar das decisões e assumir responsabilidade pelo crescimento do projeto.

Se você tiver experiência com **startups, GovTech, dados, mídia, vendas, marketing ou produtos digitais**, pode fazer sentido conversarmos.

Quem tiver interesse, pode comentar aqui ou me chamar por DM.
Posso apresentar o projeto, o que já foi desenvolvido e a visão para os próximos passos.

https://app.criteriopolitico.com.br

u/Ok_Substance1369 — 8 days ago

I built an open-source knowledge graph to show that no problem is “unsolvable” when we connect the right knowledge

I kept running into a different kind of frustration: people saying “this is too big,” “nothing works,” “we’re doomed,” or “there’s no point trying.”

But when you look closely, that’s rarely true.

Most of the time, solutions already exist somewhere/tested in a different city, a different country, or a different context. The real issue is not lack of solutions, but lack of connection between people, evidence, and experience.

I believe something important: anyone’s skills can contribute to solving even the world’s biggest problems, if we can see what has already been tried and learn from it properly.

That’s why I built CommunityFix, an open-source knowledge graph designed to make problem-solving cumulative instead of repetitive:

  • Issues describe real-world problems without assuming they are unsolvable
  • Solutions capture approaches that have been attempted
  • Case studies show where and how they were applied
  • Results include costs, outcomes, constraints, and failures when available

The goal is not to claim everything is easy. It’s to make it visible that progress is possible and already happening in many places.

The project is open source (MIT license), and right now the most important part is not building more features, but improving the quality of what exists.

I’m looking for people who can help stress-test it:

Researchers, practitioners, designers, civic technologists, and anyone with lived or local experience.

The simplest way to contribute is to pick one entry you understand and challenge it:

https://communityfix.org/contribute

What is missing for you to believe a system like this could genuinely help people move from “nothing can be done” to “here are the things we can try next”?

u/mathix420 — 8 days ago

Building an open-source civic-tech scraper to track local tender cartels. Need an architecture roast before I build the backend.

Hey everyone. I am building a Public Interest Tech project aimed at increasing local municipal transparency, and before I commit the next few months to building out the backend, I need a reality check on the architecture from devs who have dealt with Indian government portals and data extraction.

The Problem (Why this matters for everyday citizens): Local government tender portals legally publish all public spending data, but they intentionally bury it in unsearchable, massive scanned PDFs. It makes it impossible for a normal citizen or journalist to track where tax money is going, or to see if one hidden cartel is monopolizing all the municipal contracts (like road repairs) in their city.

The Tech Stack & Logic (How it works under the hood):

  • The Scraper (Node.js + Puppeteer): A script to automatically navigate regional eProcurement portals, bypass basic captchas, and pull daily unstructured tender PDFs.
  • The Shell Company Pivot: Corrupt contractors don't use one company; they use 10 different shell LLPs. So, the backend needs to extract the winning company data and cross-reference it with the MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs) registry to check Director Identification Numbers (DIN) and registered addresses. If 5 different LLPs winning contracts all share the same 2 directors, the algorithm mathematically flags it as a syndicate.
  • Database & UI: Clean the data, push to MongoDB, and map it on a React dashboard. The goal is to set up automated alerts for local transparency activists when a monopoly is detected in their area.

Where I need your technical brutal honesty:

  1. Scraping NIC/Gov Sites: Will I get instantly IP-banned by government servers? Do I need to invest in rotating residential proxies from day one just to pull these PDFs?
  2. PDF Parsing Pipeline: Puppeteer handles the navigation/downloading, but what is the most robust Node library to parse poorly scanned, sometimes bi-lingual PDFs? Does anyone have experience running OCR on government documents?
  3. MCA Cross-referencing: Does anyone have experience pulling DIN/Director data from the MCA? Is there a clean third-party API for this, or is scraping the MCA registry a completely separate nightmare?

Tear the architecture apart and let me know what blind spots I am missing!

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u/CorrectLobster6669 — 13 days ago