I'm a lawyer. My side project is three free sites that serve a million court rules and regulations from primary sources.

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I'm a lawyer who has always dabbled in code on the side. I have practiced in several jurisdictions and have always found it annoying looking up court rules or state regulations for other states. I also hate how access to law is often pay walled. Over the last year I built three sites to fix that for myself and they have turned into something that people actually use. Here they are: federal-rules.com - FRCP, FRCrP, FRE, FRAP, bankruptcy, and the local rules of 89 federal district courts. Cross-references inside rules are links to the rule they name, for example https://federal-rules.

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痛点：跨州查询法院规则和法规分散、常被付费墙限制，法律从业者难以快速获取带交叉引用的原始法律条文。

目标用户：律师、法学生、法律研究者、合规人员、需要跨州法律检索的专业人士。

证据：I have practiced in several jurisdictions and have always found it annoying looking up court rules or state regulations for other states. I also hate how access to law is often pay walled. ... they have turned into something that people actually use.

变现：免费基础站 + 高级订阅：法规变更追踪提醒、跨州比较、团队协作/批注、导出、API 访问、律所版。

MVP：选择1个州或联邦某类规则，抓取并结构化，提供法规更新提醒和全文交叉引用，先面向小律所或法学生收取低价订阅或赞助。

竞品：Westlaw、LexisNexis、CourtListener/Free Law Project、Justia、Cornell LII、各州法院官网

摘要：一名律师利用业余时间搭建了三个免费法律规则网站，覆盖联邦法院规则、50州法院规则和CFR/US Code，约100万条规则，并称已有人使用。痛点真实，但项目完全免费，无明确付费意愿或收入数据，且法律检索领域竞品众多、变现空间有限。