OpenFOIA
local-first FOIA toolkit with entity graphs
Details
- External ID
- 47479673
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenFOIA
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4108241082410824
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
FOIA toolkit for journalists and citizens.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Government
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- foia request management toolkit
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A local-first FOIA toolkit with entity graphs can be built quickly using modern local-first tools (like SQLite/WASM or PGlite), an off-the-shelf graph visualizer, and an LLM for entity extraction.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Launched 143 days after the earliest competitor.
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Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.