About

Before NetCivic, there was a town that doesn't exist.

Hobart, Ohio is fictional. The infrastructure isn't. We built a municipal website, public records, a utilities commission, a volunteer fire department page, a community radio station, an animal control office. An entire system. twenty-plus sites that look and act like they belong to a real place.

After a while we started asking why actual small towns don't have anything like this. It's not a technology problem. Somebody just has to care enough to do it.

NetCivic provides web infrastructure to small organizations. Villages, churches, nonprofits, academic programs, neighborhood groups.

Most of these organizations have a website that someone set up at some point. It runs on something. Nobody is entirely sure what. It goes down occasionally and comes back up for reasons that are also unclear. There is no backup plan because there is no backup.

NetCivic exists to fix that.

We build public tools that take government data and make it useful. Flood levels, bridge conditions, public comment periods, municipal codes. If the data is public and the interface is terrible, we show up. The tools are free and live under /public. The infrastructure is what we charge for.