holy sh*t, someone just mapped 600,000+ free datasets and APIs you can build an AI startup on today
finance, medicine, maps, science, news, food, government data, and most builders have no idea it’s free
the drop:
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github.com/public-apis/publi… (486k ★ · 54k forks)
1,400+ free APIs across 50+ categories: finance, jobs, weather, health, crypto, news, sports, ML. every entry shows auth, HTTPS and CORS support
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github.com/awesomedata/aweso… (79k ★ · 12k forks)
1,000+ curated datasets on healthcare, biology, economics, climate, energy and transport, real files for training and prototyping
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huggingface.co/datasets (22k ★ · 3.3k forks)
data built for AI: text, images, audio, code, conversations and agent traces, filterable by task, size and license, loadable straight from code
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openstreetmap.org (2.8k ★ · 1.1k forks)
roads, buildings, businesses and transit for the whole planet, the map behind thousands of products
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openfoodfacts.org (1.2k ★ · 662 forks · 1.7M+ products)
barcodes, ingredients, allergens and nutrition from 150 countries, with an open API
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data.gov (1.1k ★ · 202 forks · 590,000+ datasets)
the US government’s open-data vault: companies, EVs, housing, climate, health, trade and geospatial data, much of it as CSV, JSON or API
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openalex.org (250M+ scientific works)
a free graph of papers, authors, citations and institutions, with full text for 50M+ open-access works
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gdeltproject.org (100+ languages · updates every 15 min)
real-time news from almost every country, with people, places, events and emotions extracted automatically
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fred.stlouisfed.org (free documented API)
inflation, rates, jobs, housing and currencies, one of the best free economic databases
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datasetsearch.research.googl… (millions of datasets)
Google Search, but only for datasets. type “European apartment prices CSV” and skip the giant catalogs
the formula:
one dataset → AI → one expensive problem solved → product