Building a Venmo for City Budgets Using Claude
eltokh7 · reddit · 2026-07-12
The creator built an app that lets you browse city budgets "like Venmo."
They primarily used Claude to:
- Build the interface.
- Track, extract, clean, and organize budget data.
- Process information scattered across obscure PDFs and municipal websites.
The author views this as both a public service tool and a practical demonstration of Claude's capabilities in data extraction and scraping scenarios.
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