Why Simba Systems exists
Public data is everywhere and almost none of it is usable. A government agency publishes a dataset as a quarterly PDF. A regulator posts recall notices as an unindexed list. An industry body tracks a number that matters, but only as a press release once a year. The data is public, in the sense that nobody is hiding it, but it is not accessible, in the sense that a normal person cannot get an answer to a normal question without real work.
Simba Systems is a network of small, focused sites that each take one of these slices and turn it into something you can actually use: a page that answers the question, updated on a schedule, with the source cited.
One person, many sites
Each site in the network covers one topic: oil production, aircraft registries, ship traffic, building heights, product recalls. They are built the same way, on the same stack, by one person. That is a deliberate choice. A single well-run pipeline that fetches, validates, and publishes data reliably is worth more than ten sites that each half-work.
This hub, simbasystems.com, is not itself a data site. It explains what the network is, shows how it is growing, and is the place to reach out if you want to advertise, share a dataset, or write for the network.
The rules we hold to
Every site in the network follows the same principles, published in full on the Mission page:
- Public data only, nothing scraped from behind a paywall
- Every source attributed, with its licence
- Methodology published, not hidden
- Every chart has a text equivalent
- No dark patterns, no fake urgency, no invented numbers
If a number appears on any site in this network, it traces back to a real source, and that source is named.
What is live today
As of 2026-09-14, the network has sites live, in beta, and building. The Sites page lists all of them with their current status, and the Growth page shows the combined traffic across every site since day one. Both pull directly from the same manifest data described on the Mission page, so the numbers here never go stale.
If you run a site with public data of your own, or want to add a dataset to the network, see Partners.