AmericanData.si
Four things to build on the country’s data, read whole, in six parts.
The country’s data, as one address.
The United States publishes more open data than almost any other country: census tables, labour statistics, trade figures, health records. Most of it is hard to find and harder to join. For a startup, “American data” with SI after the dot names a service that reads it all and answers in plain language.
Every federal table, one question away.
A startup indexes census, labour and trade releases and lets anyone ask a question in plain English, with the source table cited under every answer.
Numbers checked before they are quoted.
A fact-checking desk runs every statistic in a draft against the latest official release and flags the ones that have been revised.
Every county, compared.
A firm builds a profile of each of the country’s 3,000-plus counties from public data, for retailers deciding where to open next.
What changed this month.
A non-profit publishes a monthly page of what moved in the national numbers, written for people who never open a spreadsheet.
This name is waiting for its builder.
Everyone above is made up. The name is real, and it is for sale.
Those are only the uses we can picture. Someone who is a real innovator, a creative destroyer in Joseph Schumpeter’s sense, will see in this name something nobody has imagined yet, and build that instead.
It is priced on enquiry, with a reply inside one business day. Payment goes through independent escrow, and the name is pushed to your registrar, usually within 24 hours.
The end.
