For the National Day of Civic Hacking, participants will focus on producing full, production ready apps and visualization tools that will be featured on the We the People website and made available under an open source license.
The site now carries 3, 000 items, with plans to expand to 25, 000 products. (The real store carries more than 100, 000 products.) Prices are the same in-store and online - with razor-thin margins - but Ahmad reckons the website is advertising as much as a revenue source.