Greenhouse - Instantly see where any U.S. politician gets their money

@dskaletsky Thanks! @lessig actually helped launch Greenhouse with a blog post, which you can see here: http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/88...

Great idea and save a lot of time of developers! Good job team :)

This is so cool. It's a browser plugin that inserts hover links where politicians' names are on the page. Hover to see a quick card detailing what lobbies their biggest donations come from, and what percent are <$200. Reading about a political issue? Easily see who's in a conflict of interest. Click to learn more details about their contributions, and positions on specific campaign finance reform proposals. Their landing page says it well: "Puts vital data where it’s most relevant so you can discover the real impact of money on our political system."

Oh - and the creator is a 16 years old high school sophomore: http://nicholasrub.in/ Not even old enough to vote, but old enough to use tech to add transparency for those who can. Super cool.

this is pretty fun, especially the name which is the same as the World's biggest Marijuana seeds provider from Amsterdam haha http://www.greenhouseseeds.nl/home

super cool - love seeing stories like this. let's get this kid some well-deserved buzz. cc'ing founder @nickrubin - what inspired you to build this? Where's it going?

This is awesome. They take opensecrets.org data and present it effectively for the average consumer. Huge fan of opensecrets.org. I've spent countless hours in rabbit holes looking to see how Super PACs received funding and who/what their spending it on. It's a fascinating resource for monitoring political funds.

Thanks all! Just waking up in Seattle. This is an awesome site, and I'm really happy to be participating. @eriktorenberg Since a presentation in 7th grade, I've been very interested in campaign finance and the problems in our political system. More recently, I've been teaching myself how to code. I figured something like Greenhouse would be the perfect intersection of these two passions. For the future, Greenhouse will be updated to more current (2014) data, as it becomes more substantial. I have a bunch of ideas and am still thinking about where to take it. Any suggestions?

@nickrubin As a product and politics enthusiast this is great. Anything that creates better transparency about our officials is good for the public. Move over Yo, this is something worth writing about.

@nickrubin This is cool, congrats on shipping it! One piece of feedback: I'd love to just use this in the browser rather than download it anywhere. My first inclination was to go to the site and start typing in politician names. Maybe let a user type in 1-2 names and then prompt them to download. Try before you buy.