Show HN: open source congress tracking application (congresstrack.org)

2 points by bhelx 12y ago ↗ HN

It's basically a just a mailing list that subscribes you to the votes of your congress members. It's free to sign up and easy to unsubscribe.

I had initially written this as a script and decided to put it behind a web interface so others could use it.

Here is the repo:

https://github.com/bhelx/congress_track/

Needs a mobile responsive layout and will probably have bugs.

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d1_mo 12y ago ↗

Really cool app, but will it be around? Any plans to monetize it?

bhelx 12y ago ↗

Thank you. No plans to monetize it. It's been running for about a month and it's fairly low maintenance. I find it really useful myself so I have an incentive to keep it running.

I'm currently only spending a couple dollars a month on the heroku costs but wouldn't mind paying more if people actually found it useful. If the financial burden was ever enough I'd just take donations. I doubt it will get that far though.