I've noticed a bit of fanfare these days for gov-/citizen-tech. However, a rarely mentioned obstacle (outside present company) regarding work for or on behalf currently established governments are how they are hobbled by mountains of bureaucratic cruft, making such ventures attempts at turd-polishing. Rather than surmounting the insurmountable, applying gov-/citizen-tech to building a competing startup government (or even a grander market of such governments) seems to be a more efficacious solution.
With all this said, what is a good angle/approach to implementing such a startup? What are similar examples you know of that worked in the past, or at the have a working theory behind their construction?
As an example, my town of about 400 does everything a government needs to, with a handful of people meeting once or twice a month, a website, some email addresses, a few Google docs, and a physical town hall to meet in and hold elections. Don't get me wrong, the people who run the town do put in work, but it is far more simple than the state or federal level.
Before you try to build some new solution, I'd research such simple governments and figure out what the minimum needed to operate really is, and where the limit will be as the size scales. Because while the few large government entities are the most obvious and talked about there are literally tens of thousands of small government entities to look at to fully understand the differences of scale in governments.
Look at: Small towns, Library Districts, School Districts, Sanitation Districts, even HOAs.