healthcare.gov

The source was already released once, then pulled again later. This is where it WAS available on GitHub: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov One of the many forks can be found here: https://github.com/binlain/healthcare.gov And here's also a public 'announcement': https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/ It really looks like they intended to OpenSource healthcare.gov anyways (or they already did and reverted their decision later).

This was the original link which was buried when it was originally posted 20 days ago: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476905

I was thinking the same... the source code for the portal is in fact open source: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov But the code for the marketplace isn't. I think if the marketplace was open bug fixing would be faster.

Putting it together with dangrossman's link to https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov, could be a private site written using some gov.* code from GitHub.

The Healthcare.gov Github repo does live under the CMS.gov account (https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov). (Edit: No, this isn't the marketplace code, but the fact that they share a Github account is some evidence the marketplace could be reusing/extending CMS.gov code).

Because it is: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/ Now, why they haven't open sourced the marketplace application, that's a valid question.

As has been noted on HN at the time, the front-facing part of the site was released as open-source 3 months ago: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov You can deploy it like any other Jekyll site. The code and content has changed since then but I imagine it still has the same static front facing architecture, much like the Obama campaign fundraising site, which famously raised $250M using Jekyll static pages: http://kylerush.net/blog/meet-the-obama-campaigns-250-millio... So the number of raw visitors may not be the most relevant number, as many of them may have hit the front page and left, or never got around to the signup part. But what exactly was the technology in the back-end stack?

No. But the company that built the working sections of healthcare.gov - that is, everything except /marketplace* - and open-sourced it (https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov) is Development Seed. They are indeed the makers of MapBox.

Interestingly enough, healthcare.gov itself is open source and uses Jekyll for the static site. It seems to be decently done. But the marketplace itself I guess is a whole different story. https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov

Interesting you mention that. I saw this the other day, and was debating whether or not it was (at least the frontend of) the actual running site: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov

Here's the repo of healthcare.gov is anyone is interested in addressing some of the optimization issues mentioned in the article: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov

I submitted a pull request when it first opened: https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov/pulls Doesn't look like they're doing much updating, though. I don't know if that's standard operating procedure on gov't websites (which, let's face it, have lots of clunky requirements that other websites won't have) or if this repo is just for public show. It's at least educational...for anyone who doesn't know how flexible Jekyll can be, this is a full fledged installation. You can create and deploy your own flat-file health care site in minutes. That's a very cool concept, actually, and probably never been done before with a government website.

This site's source is also on Github, and they've pledged to keep the repository up-to-date with the site -- https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov