Front Seat is hiring! We're looking for a senior backend software engineer to compliment our UI expertise.

Current Project: WalkScore.com

Walk Score promotes the car-lite lifestyle by providing a personalized walkability rating for any address. Within one month of our July 2007 launch, over 1 million addresses were scored.

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Recently Launched: CountMore.org

CountMore.org shows college students whether their vote counts more in their school state or home state, and lets them register to vote. Find out where your vote counts more.

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Front Seat News

Walk Score Now on All Zillow Listings - 2/25/09 - Zillow.com adds Walk Score to each of their 87 million properties. Read the Walk score blog post or the Zillow blog post.

Front Seat Launches ObamaCTO.org - 11/12/08 - ObamaCTO.org helps you set the priorities for our nation's first CTO. We also launched ObamaUrbanPolicy.org at the request of urban planners. Got another suggestion?

Front Seat Launches CountMore.org - 9/19/08 - Front Seat launches CountMore.org, a site that helps college students decide whether to vote in their school state or home state. Read the press release.

Walk Score Ranks 2,508 Neighborhoods On Walkability - 7/17/08 - The Walk Score rankings were the top story on Yahoo.com, front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, featured in USA Today, etc. Almost 150,000 people visited walkscore.com in one day to view the rankings.

Walk Score Seattle Neighborhood Rankings Launch - 6/12/08 - Walk Score ranks 77 neighborhoods in Seattle on walkability and creates and interactive walkability map. We loved this King 5 TV piece and had great coverage on the front page of the Seattle PI.

Walk Score

Walk Score promotes the car-lite lifestyle. Visitors can type their address to get a personal Walk Score.

ObamaCTO.org

ObamaCTO.org asked people to submit and vote on the priorities for our country's first Chief Technology Officer.

CountMore.org

CountMore.org shows students whether their vote counts more in their school state or home state, and lets them register to vote.

Better Bills

We proposed design improvements to the Seattle utilities bills. We are currently working on letting people compare their energy usage to their neighbors.

Predatory Lending Association

A satirical payday loan industry association with best practices for exploiting the working poor.

Kathy's Climate Kit

Kathy's Climate Kit, a Front Seat spin-off, sells gift boxes with items that help fight climate change.

Open Source Media Project

A team of editors increased the accuracy and global perspective of Wikipedia articles related to the environment and the "War on Terror."

Where's The Truth

One hundred copies of An Inconvenient Truth were distributed with the goal of tracking each DVD as it traveled across the country.

Real MPG

A prototype website for tracking your car's actual miles per gallon against the EPA miles per gallon ratings.

Neutral Fuel

A prototype for a gas station prototype where the carbon offset is priced into each gallon of gasoline.