Hacker News Reader

Does anyone live in a city (within the US) that takes a similar approach to GDS? I live in SF and developers usually create their own apps for services (Like MUNI/BART) but the city seems to have a mix of good and bad UX when it comes to municipal services (from my experience, at least)

View on HN

Not sure about at a municipal level, but USDS was based on GDS (https://www.usds.gov/).

Strange how it doesn't credit GDS

It doesn't, but more detail here> https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/16/us-uk-digital-gov...

Link to https://data.gov.uk on that page in fact points to ’file:///C:/Users/mcallister_mj2/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/5P3C0P9L/data.gov.uk’

Oh dear.

18F is also based on GDS. 18f.gov

Explanation of the difference between USDS and 18F: http://ben.balter.com/2015/04/22/the-difference-between-18f-...

I live in Pittsburgh. I don't know if it is a "rule", but none of the municipal applications I've built are apps. As we show how much less expensive responsive web is to develop and maintain, it will only get harder for efficient and competent agencies to propose to build an app. Of course inefficient, corrupt agencies will probably still build apps.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com