Observed arrival · 2026-09-24
Make No Mistakes turns public data into APIs
A small data-tools project offers APIs and open datasets for building permits across 16 US cities and job postings across nine hiring platforms.
- For
- Developers and researchers using public permits or job data
- Worth noticing
- Its public datasets omit owner names, and contractor phone numbers are available only for Austin and Raleigh.
Field notes
The permit records combine city portals into fields including address, ZIP, work description, valuation, and contractor, but phone coverage is limited to Austin and Raleigh. The hiring tools use public feeds from nine named ATS platforms; the site also offers a free weekly email tracking hiring changes at 200 US startups. Its stated data practices exclude homeowner phone numbers and emails, and public datasets drop owner names.
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