Legalize

Legalize converts official legislation into version-controlled Markdown stored in public git repositories: each law is a file, each legislative reform is a commit dated to its original publication. The result is a complete, diffable, machine-readable legislative record covering 31 countries, 659,758 laws and 749,315 reforms, freely available to clone, search, fork and build on. A fully automated open-source pipeline fetches new legislation daily from official government sources. The launch reached #1 on Hacker News (827 points, 233 comments) and was featured in Xataka; the Spanish repository alone has 1,800+ GitHub stars. Open legislative data unlocks downstream innovation: legal AI, civic tech, comparative-law research and transparency tooling.