Re:Ask HN: Rate my startup: openpoll.us
by kongqiu on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @07:39PM
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Really cool idea to open this data up to the masses.
A few ideas:
Maybe you could do some sort of "introduction" video or tutorial so that a new visitor can tell what the site is about, use cases, where to find help, etc.
Could you maybe create a master list of "issue" keywords and then scrape the legislative text for these keywords, and then use this to tag each bill? Tags would help with discovery.
*Similarly, scraping the data for Legislator names would also be interesting.
A few ideas:
Maybe you could do some sort of "introduction" video or tutorial so that a new visitor can tell what the site is about, use cases, where to find help, etc.
Could you maybe create a master list of "issue" keywords and then scrape the legislative text for these keywords, and then use this to tag each bill? Tags would help with discovery.
*Similarly, scraping the data for Legislator names would also be interesting.