Hi. I’m a Gwinnett resident and software developer. Over my recent vacation I built something I’d wanted for a while: a single place to ask straightforward questions about the county instead of searching across a dozen separate portals and PDFs. It’s at askgwinnett.com, it’s free, and I wanted to share it here before anywhere else.
The clearest way to describe it is by example. A few questions it answers:
- "When does school start?" — August 5, with the full GCPS calendar.
- "What did the school board decide at their last meeting?" — a summary of the meeting and its votes, linked to the official recording.
- "Why hasn’t the county portion of my tax bill changed?" — an explanation of the homestead Value Offset Exemption, which freezes the county portion for homesteaded properties.
- "How has Gwinnett voted in recent presidential elections?" — the official results, with sources and no interpretation.
- "When is the next Ride Gwinnett bus at a given stop?" — real-time arrivals.
- It also covers property and zoning, parks, traffic, trash and recycling, voter registration, and power outages.
The priority throughout was accuracy over coverage. Every answer is generated from real public data — the county GIS system, the actual meeting records, live feeds — and includes a link to its source so you can verify it. When the data doesn’t support an answer, it says so rather than guessing.
It’s multilingual (English, Spanish, Korean), with no accounts, no ads, and nothing collected for sale. The hosting and AI costs are mine, so if usage becomes expensive I may occasionally need to pause it. I’ll also be straightforward that it doubles as a portfolio project — which works in your favor, since my name is attached and I have every reason to keep it accurate.
It won’t be right every time. There’s a thumbs up/down on each answer and a feedback form, and reported problems are what I address first.
www.askgwinnett.com — an independent project, not affiliated with Gwinnett County government or GCPS.
