FirstDig
New building permits in your area, emailed every morning
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FirstDig reads about 100 city permit feeds every hour and emails service businesses the new permits in the areas they draw on a map: new pools, roofs, remodels, demolitions. Get the address and the builder weeks before the job is done. Free plan.
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Construction
- Data infrastructure
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Sales
- Construction
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See all 155 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial Emailing and map-based filtering are easy to build. The hard part is collecting and normalizing permit data from about 100 different city systems, which are inconsistent and change often.
What it would actually take: The stack would be a fleet of per-city scrapers or API clients, a normalization layer that maps each city's fields into one schema, geocoding, and geofenced alerting with email delivery. The main difficulty is maintaining the many brittle municipal feeds over time, which takes ongoing data engineering work and a long tail of per-city fixes.
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Attention rank: #50 of 156 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 287 days after the earliest competitor.
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