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Ask HN: Examples of businesses built on open data?
I'm looking at examples of businesses built on open data - such as
1. Selling the data itself - like, take data from the govt, clean it, massage it etc and sell it
2. Services built on top of open data
3. Scraping - data that is not readily available in machine readable format, but can scraped (web pages, PDFs etc), packaged and sold.
Anyone knows examples of such?
- johnmurch 12y agoYou mean something like these? http://geocod.io/ http://geocod.io/ https://smartystreets.com/ https://smartystreets.com/
- vijayr 12y agoYes, some other example http://aggdata.com http://aggdata.com (scraping, not open data) http://www.zip-codes.com/products.asp http://www.zip-codes.com/products.asp (open data)
- adrianh 12y agoI started a company called EveryBlock (http://www.everyblock.com/ http://www.everyblock.com/) that compiled a ton of government data and sliced it by address/neighborhood. Also check out the O'Reilly pamphlet about how to build companies based on open data. (I got it at a conference a while back and don't recall the exact title...)