RathausFeed

Overview

RathausFeed was built at HackaTUM 2025 for the City of Munich / IT-Referat challenge.

The project turns complex official city documents into a more accessible digital noticeboard for citizens.

Problem

Important local government information is often spread across official announcements, PDFs, meeting documents, gazettes, and council material.

These documents can be hard to find, hard to understand, and difficult to connect to everyday civic participation.

Solution

RathausFeed is a full-stack prototype with an ingestion pipeline for official documents, AI-assisted summarization and curation, and a frontend where citizens can browse local government updates more easily.

The prototype includes ideas such as:

• summarized updates about city planning, decisions, and debates
• tags and filters for topics such as mobility, housing, climate, and youth
• discussion threads for citizen feedback
• a children’s view for schools and educational settings
• pointers to participation options when available

My contribution

My main focus was backend development. I also supported other parts of the prototype where needed, including integration work across the frontend and AI-related service parts.

Stack

The repository contains a backend, a React frontend, and a Python AI service.