People struggle to follow bills across fragmented legislatures
Residents, advocates, and researchers want to know what bills are being considered and how they change, but state-by-state tracking can be manual and important bills may receive little public coverage. Existing needs range from following one state’s full agenda to monitoring a policy topic across many states or Congress. A useful first version is feasible if it focuses on a limited number of legislatures rather than promising complete, perfectly current coverage everywhere.
For legislative advocates and engaged residents. Mentioned from Feb 2025 to Jan 2026 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
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- 5.0/10
- Pain
- 6.0/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 5.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
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- Businesses
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- High
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Keeping all of these bills up to date across 50 states that change every year is quite the project. It's a pretty manual process right now, alas. I'd love to automate it
I would gladly pay $5 per month for someone to summarize ALL the bills being discussed. Just heard my 2nd one that’s been signed by Landry and thought “no one said a word about this one
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