I used Claude Code to build a plain-English database of local government meetings for 2,400+ US & Canadian cities
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一位开发者利用 Claude Code 构建了一个名为 mytown.theboringparts.com 的数据库，旨在解决地方政府会议信息难以获取的问题。该平台从美国和加拿大2400多个城市的市议会、委员会会议中提取议程，并将其转化为通俗易懂的摘要。目前，该网站已收录超过6万场会议和4.5万份AI撰写的简报，并支持对所有内容进行全文搜索。…
Local government is where the decisions that actually change your life get made — zoning, budgets, water rates, the $2M road contract — and almost nobody can find out what their city council is doing without sitting through a 3-hour meeting or reading a 200-page PDF.
So I fixed that. https://mytown.theboringparts.com pulls council, board, and commission meetings from 2,400+ US and Canadian cities and turns every agenda into a plain-English summary. Search your town, see what it's deciding this week.
What's live right now:
- 60,000+ meetings across 2,400 municipalities
- 45,000 AI-written briefs in plain English
- 11 government-portal platforms reverse-engineered and wired up (Legistar, CivicPlus, Granicus, BoardDocs, IQM2…) — every city runs different software and none of them ship a usable API, so I built an adapter for each
- Full-text search over all of it, weekly AI roundups per city, a federal sibling site, and meeting videos transcribed with whisper on a 5090
It's not AI slop, and I built it so you don't have to take my word for that: every summary links to the primary source document, and the methodology page ( https://mytown.theboringparts.com/methodology/ ) publishes the exact prompts and the fact-first rules the models run under — fact-first, traceable, neutral, no fabrication. Every page has a "report an error" button. The whole dataset is open (CC-BY on Hugging Face).
Claude Code did a ton of the build — the adapters, the pipeline, the static-site generator. Local LLMs on my own hardware do the summarization, so it runs for almost nothing.
Search your city and tell me what you find. If a summary's wrong, I want to know — that's what the report button is for.