Hacker News: jaaacckz

New comment by jaaacckz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

jaaacckz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:46:25 +0000

yeah they should be fine. dude is a standard HN hater

New comment by jaaacckz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

jaaacckz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:45:40 +0000

which ones dont load? which ones take forever?

New comment by jaaacckz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

jaaacckz — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:31:32 +0000

I've built tons of things but next to zero adoption. Its SUPER easy to build now, near impossible to get people to use your things. As long as you are getting value out of them... that is all that matters. At least that is what I tell myself.

https://thepublictab.com/ https://tryfinn.ai/ https://travelerscodex.com/ https://github.com/govapi-rb https://chamomile-rb.github.io/ https://houseguessr.io/

New comment by jaaacckz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

jaaacckz — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:28:26 +0000

also elixir is amazing ~

New comment by jaaacckz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

jaaacckz — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:27:20 +0000

my gut reaction online is to poopie on people but i just wanted to tell you this is cool and u are doing well great job

New comment by jaaacckz in "Show HN: The Public Tab – See every federal dollar flowing through your district"

jaaacckz — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:59:44 +0000

I took a look at your previous comments, it seems you just typically have something negative to say about most things on HN. That is fine, just the nature of the site I guess. The person above found it useful. One persons trash is another persons treasure I guess.

New comment by jaaacckz in "Show HN: The Public Tab – See every federal dollar flowing through your district"

jaaacckz — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:41:05 +0000

I'm not sure what this comment means. The site is to help you follow the money of federal spending in districts. I never mention anything about "local spending". What are you trying to say here?

There are lots of places people would want to see contracts and spending..

https://thepublictab.com/districts/CA-14 https://thepublictab.com/districts/NM-01

etc..

New comment by jaaacckz in "Show HN: The Public Tab – See every federal dollar flowing through your district"

jaaacckz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:18:00 +0000

https://thepublictab.com/districts/VA-08

You can at least drill down onto what the spending is all about! Where I'm near its not mainly social security (^:

New comment by jaaacckz in "Show HN: The Public Tab – See every federal dollar flowing through your district"

jaaacckz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:28:41 +0000

I hear ya. I'm just unsure that people will even use the API enough. That is assuming that most of the people that would use this/hangout here are programmer-y.

Perhaps I can make more things seen in the "Free tier"

Show HN: The Public Tab – See every federal dollar flowing through your district

jaaacckz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:19:13 +0000

Early in my career I worked on DataLab, the sister site to USASpending.gov before it got merged into it. I then worked on USASpending a bit. Datalab had more of a "for the people" storytelling vibe to it which I liked a lot more and I feel that spirit got lost when we "merged" into USASpending. I built The Public Tab in response to this feeling.

My core idea: The district you are in is a more relatable measure of analysis for federal spending for the average person. You want to know what is going on around you. You can more easily "follow the money" this way.

I have a pipeline that runs nightly/weekly with data digest from USASpending, SAM.gov, and some other big players in the space. You can subscribe to changes and get updates daily/weekly on spending in your district. You can map that to lobbying, new contracts that pop up, as well as what your rep is voting on.

The client libraries are written in ruby and are open source here: https://github.com/govapi-rb

You can also check out the API Docs here: https://thepublictab.com/docs/api

It is deemed "beta" for now.. I'd love any feedback and to hear what is cool and what is not.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798958

Points: 1

# Comments: 8