Kairui Cheng

New feature time! Incorporated a toggle that enables users to show which party represents which district: congressional, state upper, or state lower. Had to reexport all of the .geojsons cause they didn't include the right property fip/geocode matching the first time.

More refactoring internally, also starting to implement backend that enables users to follow legislators!

Minimal feature changes; just a lot of codebase refactoring!

Many QoL improvements in this devlog! Fixed some dark mode theming issues for the map popups/key. Replaced Leaflet rendering engine with MapLibre GL, which now renders all of the legislative districts much more quickly than before. No lag! Added more bills and merged duplicate representatives as well.

Added chamber makeup into dashboard stats; users can now look at which party controls which chamber in different states, including numbers and percentages!

Added previous terms for Congress people in the representatives detail page. Also refined tables/buttons to improve consistency and dashboard stats to make circle size proportional to number of bills

Users can now click anywhere on the map and drag the location icon to get the representatives that represent those coordinates!

Added .geojson files client side for faster district boundary loading.

Federal and state legislative boundaries are here! Imported them into mongodb from U.S. Census. Implemented find your local reps, which get the relevant districts using lat + long. Also added all district boundary visualizations in the dashboard, and color coding representative cards for ux :)

Lots of new features! Implemented max view counts, end-to-end encryption, and many ui + font updates. Used AES-GCM for E2EE, and included random password hash generation.

Lots of new features in this devlog; implemented fuzzy search in policy updates feed using fuse.js. Added the field jurisdictionName: United States Congress for all Congress bills, so fetching bills from Congress should be nearly instant now. Also created some scripts to clean up some unwanted summaries.

Added legislation existence check so I don't call unnecessary gemini summaries from the API

Implemented time in office, added direct legislation filtered by representative in policy updates feed, and fixed clear filter bug not reloading feed state. Improved UI and UX for representative details with animations and better buttons!

Finished adding representative collection in mongodb database. Normalized all Congress representatives and senators into correct data types; now users can click on any representative to see the bills that they have sponsored! Obviously still a WIP, as some time dates are curiously NaN...

Changed source fetching script to have an Illinois exception (due to their stupid legislative page format)

Lots of new features in this one! Added distinct representative page for lookup and filtering, donation buttons, and a parallax animation on the home page to boost engagement. Implemented civics endpoint to remove conflicts with representative endpoint, and switched back to Google AI Studio after looking at the costs :D

Continued changing the AI Summaries text extraction from the different pdfs provided by legislature websites! Switched from Google AI Studio to Microsoft Azure AI for cost purposes. Text extraction from pdfs and source links now works better than ever...

Implemented SMTP email senders in tracking policies! Also fixed some of the backend API for handling push notifications, and added a new email template. Settled on Brevo for SMTP after hours of searching for alternatives to gmail. Unrelated, transferred DNS from Namecheap to Cloudflare :)

Lots of new stuff in this one! Spent a while refactoring the PostsFeed and PostCard components, which enabled me to add liking, more sorting (new, hot, top, and old), and display exact times. Also fixed some CRUD issues that came up through previous updates.

Added password protection! Now your links can only be accessed by the person you trust.

Added a FAQ. Max views feature has been tabled for now, but everything else works. Will come back in V2.

Link burning works now! Adding max views, optional messages, and password functionality next.

Testing links to see whether they have expired or not! Currently running into build issues with Vercel specifically...

Created initial UI layout, plus bare-bones implementation of some backend stuff, where links are stored in mongodb. Added an ember glow for the animation!

Revised win screen/menu a bit. Fixed random popup bugs!

Updated the fetching script to include more robust Gemini Summary handling by feeding it better input text. This bug has been bashing me since the existence of this project...

Users can now search posts and filter them by tags!

Fixed CRUD operations on detailed individual community posts. Users can also click into posts from viewing other people's profiles.

Implemented some functionality into viewing individual community posts on a separate page. CRUD operations will be fixed soon.

More animations added! Also created a script that merged duplicate Congress bills containing same source links but having different identifiers.

Reformatted a ton of code. Added animations to the entire website, reduced loading times!

Fixed dashboard data inconsistencies in internal API

Major internal codebase changes, refactored a ton of types. Also fixed fetching representatives bug, where states with similar acronyms would fetch cached reps of different states (i.e. CA and AL)

Fixed incorrect Congressional session aggregation for dashboard. Implemented more robust solution for querying most recent Congress session; floor((x - 1789 / 2) + 1, where x is the current year

Fixed bugs regarding searching for Congress bills in the policy updates feed. Also enabled aggregation for U.S. Congress in dashboard.

Fixed tech support bug, which changed the prices after each click. Now repair prices only change upon city arrival.

Added state-specific dashboard statistics! Users can now look at popular topics, most active representatives, and recent bills at a glance.

Changed font to match techno theme.

Added readme!

Users can now view a dashboard to see overview statistics of all state legislation in the U.S. More features will be implemented soon!

Added market forecast and tycoon index. Fixed some cyberattack bugs, added ASICs.

Improved user interface. Added reputation and tycoon index. Enhanced bank deposit and cloud transfer ux. Added server health status bar. Changed server repairs to be enabled only if the server health is less than 100%.

Added ui components for main city dashboard. Implemented price fluctuations, markets, upgrades, and travel.

Added home page and ui components!

Legislation fetching script now handles two APIs: OpenStates and U.S. Congress.

Bug fixes: fixed incorrect pagination state on new state search, fixed multiword queries for RepresentativesFinder.tsx (states like New York, New Jersey, New Mexico were calling directly from the OpenStates API instead of from mongodb cache); Enhancements: added custom tags for policy search, enabled users to view details on embedded legislation in community posts

Users can now add comments to posts, with fully implemented CRUD operations. Comments are nested akin to Instagram/Youtube/X.

Users can now create posts and link legislation to express their views! Also enhanced mobile UI and deployed a production instance of Clerk Auth. Core features are essentially complete (except for the occasional bug :)).

Added generate message to legislator. Now users can contact with their state rep/senator and ask questions pertaining to their bills!

Added civics tool improved mobile formatting (still need to iron out more bugs), added bookmark functionality

Added further improvements in policy tracker front/back end, barebone functionality

Changed timeline representation format

Started implementing page protection, used mistral from ollama to generate better summaries of policies, pushed to mongo

Added ollama scripts to generate summaries of legislation locally + push to mongo db database, continued populating historical legislation, fixed infinite scroll + state preservation on policy update feed

Added a better script to fetch all legislation data from all fifty states from 2017 to present

Improved pagination, switched localStorage caching to sessionStorage

Added more historical legislation

Added night theme toggle

Added home page