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Open-source land-use software for small US towns: permits, inspections, Planning Board and ZBA cases, and code enforcement, organized around the parcel.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 126 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views
Niche: open-source software platforms · 61 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Government
- Vertical SaaS
- B2B
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- agpl
- building-permits
- civic-tech
- code-enforcement
- gis
- govtech
- +11 more
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Could you build this?
Partial Permit, inspection, and case-tracking UIs are CRUD-like and vibe-codeable, but correct parcel-based GIS data and zoning or municipal workflow rules require domain expertise and local data that code alone doesn't provide.
What it would actually take: Build a Django or Rails app with PostGIS for parcel geometry, plus workflow state machines for permits, inspections, and ZBA/Planning Board cases, and document storage. The hard parts are accurate parcel and zoning data per town, legally sound notice and hearing workflows, and integration with municipal GIS and tax records. Real adoption needs a land-use planning domain expert and municipal sales/support capacity.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 384 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #136 of 385 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
- Verdant: helping cities process permits faster · yc · 2026-07-07 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- RustGIS · github · 2026-10-10 · 981 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- awesome-digital-public-infrastructure · github · 2026-11-06 · 149 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OpenSC4 · github · 2026-10-12 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- slop-cities · github · 2026-10-26 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- microPMS · ph · 2026-10-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- vrai · github · 2026-10-13 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- bloom · github · 2026-09-28 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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