Civic Hack DC is back.
At Civic Hack DC 2025, technologists, policy experts, designers, data practitioners, and civic-minded volunteers explored what could be built with federal regulatory comment data.
Now we’re taking the next step: from prototype to production.
Part 2 will build on SpicyRegs and the original Civic Hack DC 2025 problem statements to create production-level open-source MVP tools for making public comments easier to search, analyze, understand, and act on.
This time, we’re focused on tools that can continue beyond demo day.
What Makes Part 2 Different
Part 1 was about exploring what is possible.
Part 2 is about building what can actually be used.
We are organizing teams around real work groups, judges, advisors, and product-owner partners who can help define needs, validate assumptions, and guide teams toward practical tools.
Together, teams will ask:
- Who is this tool for?
- What workflow does it support?
- What would make it trustworthy enough to use?
- What is the smallest useful version we can ship?
- What should continue after the hackathon?
Judging and feedback will focus on usefulness, feasibility, accessibility, trust, documentation, and potential for real-world impact.