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Get Milk!

2026 · Product design, brand

Get Milk! is news made actionable.

In my words

Get Milk! is news made actionable. For years I felt that following the news made me feel informed rather than actually be informed. For the most part, it did an exceptional job of stirring my blood, and produced zero actionable insights.

Get Milk! takes the opposite approach. By cleverly using California’s Brown Act, the app scans local policy APIs and outlets, verifies what it finds, and translates it into simple English that shows what actually affects you. And it makes taking action as easy as posting online.

All quiet · 3 weeks · the radar is watching
Speak upcloses in 6 days

PG&E wants to raise your electric bill

Est. +$26/month for your household · public comment window open · draft ready to file

The Get Milk! radar, animated. Most weeks it stays quiet. When a public decision with a deadline affects you, one alert comes up.
How it went — 2026
  1. Jul 17Day one
    Four questions.

    Four questions. ZIP code, rent or own, work, household. Still called Actionable.

  2. Jul 17Interface
    The radar.

    The radar. Only two kinds of alert: Speak up and Claim it.

  3. Jul 17Action
    The alert.

    The alert. What is changing, why it affects you, and a draft comment you edit before sending.

  4. Jul 17Ledger
    The record.

    The record. A record of what you filed, what you won and what you claimed.

  5. Aug 5Renamed
    Get Milk!

    Get Milk! Named after Harvey Milk. The look changes from paper green to navy and milk.

  6. Aug 11Launch
    getmilk.net.

    getmilk.net. Day 25. Public launch. A weekly email instead of push notifications.

  7. AugPricing test

    The $2.99 tier. A paid tier, built and then dropped. Free for private citizens.

  8. Aug 22Paused
    Then quiet.

    Then quiet. The last piece of work was the brand sheet. The project stopped here.

From the repoActionable News / README.md

The product laws, written before the code. The app was still called Actionable then.

1. No deadline, no ring.

Every alert must have a deadline and a done-state. Proclamations, debates, and things already decided never fire. All-quiet is the default state; the silence is the feature.

2. Analyze once, distribute many.

LLM analysis runs once per docket item and produces an audience predicate; matching users is deterministic code. Cost scales with legislative output, not user count.

3. Receipts, not checkmarks.

Done-states are evidence — a sent email in the record, a tracking number from an API — never self-reported.

4. Counts, never names.

Community activity is visible in aggregate (neighborhood counts), never as personal profiles.

App icon: the pin badge
App icon: the pin badge
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Founded
2026-07-17
Public launch
2026-08-11
Commits
81 · 25 days to launch
Sources
Federal Register · CPUC · SF · Legistar · BoardDocs
State
Live · paused Aug 22
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