capitolbells

Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:15PM (#7583076)

I recently launched a webapp, CapitolBells.com, that is sort of a HN for arguments supporting or opposing legislation in Congress ("crowd-lobby Congress"). A friend of mine runs a project called Madison, which in essence is GitHub for legislation, allowing for various branching debates and amendments to bills. We've often thought it would be cool to combine the two ideas.

Ask HN: Pros and Cons of open sourcing a legislative social media platform?

Posted by capitolbells on Sunday April 13, 2014 @04:45PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Last year I started a company and created a mobile app that mirrors Congress’s radio-controlled voting alarm clocks with push alerts -- it's now used by much of Congress. Recently I launched a Reddit/HN-style site for House and Senate bills that compares everyone's positions to their Representatives'. I have heard from several people that I should open source my code. What are the pros and cons?

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