StateScoop interviewed ProudCity CTO Jeff Lyon and me about the company public sharing the ProudCity platform code.
“Our philosophy around building technology is to really not to lock government in,” Fretwell said. “Our platform really gives them the freedom because we feel like we can have a competitive advantage around building a great product and customer experience.”
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“In the past, a full build out would have cost, at a minimum, probably $5,000, more likely $10,000,” Lyons said. “We wanted to get rid of that to make it as simple as possible.”
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ProudCity is a digital government platform that makes it easy and cost-effective to launch and manage all aspects of digital government operations, including websites, meetings, online forms and payments.