Ask HN: What have the USDS and 18F accomplished so far?

[abarrettjo]

Interested in hearing about projects that have been accomplished or examples of cool things they've done.

[tdicola]

Have you visited their website? Right on the main page is a link to their projects, "Learn more about what we're building and how we're doing it.". Links to https://18f.gsa.gov/dashboard/ with over a couple dozen different government projects they're involved with.

[wslack]

May I recommend: https://18f.gsa.gov/tags/our-projects/ (I work at 18F)

[giaour]

They've found a way to source programming work for a dollar.

[thisisdallas]

What is your comment about? Is it all volunteer work?

[giaour]

They were experimenting with reverse auctions on software contracts, and the first contract went for $1. http://www.brendansudol.com/writing/18f-micropurchase/

[rkho]

Looks like the person who won that reverse auction did a follow up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10570069

[giaour]

Yes, that was linked to in the comment you're replying to.