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Our hurricane-tracking startup

stormpulse.com

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Re: Our hurricane-tracking startup

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Great idea! Have you seen www.surfline.com? Maybe we could advertise there once we get the Pacific going (which wouldn't be a colossal amount of work with the systems we have in place...).

Advertise? You should partner with them. Their hurricane service is terrible.

Partner with them? They should crush them.

Re: Our hurricane-tracking startup

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Great work. Keep it up. Someone should buy these guys quickly. I see you guys are using S3. There's no doubt that you have a ton of info. The trick is not to overwhelm the user with that info but at the same time have it easy for them to access it and interpret it if they wanted.

Re: Our hurricane-tracking startup

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Well, I'm sure this is useful in some manner. However, I've never even seen a hurricane, and a hurricane has never affected my life. So I'll leave the commentary for those people whose cat has been raped by a hurricane...

Then why even bother commenting on this thread? Great site btw although I had a bit of trouble navigating the site. Help docs should alleviate that...also it would be nice if the UI was cleaned up a bit for new users. I had no trouble using the map and checking out the world. But the rest of the site leaves me confused with so much information all over the place.

Re: Our hurricane-tracking startup

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great idea! Have you seen www.surfline.com? Maybe we could advertise there once we get the Pacific going (which wouldn't be a colossal amount of work with the systems we have in place...).

Advertise? You should partner with them. Their hurricane service is terrible.

Going to check it out. Thanks for the idea. We've been thinking about "Stormpulse as an embedded service" for a while . . .

Re: Our hurricane-tracking startup

#17
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So cool! I've been playing on the site and I'm impressed. Who's your ideal customer? How do you plan on making money?

Thanks, Ty!

Ideally, anyone interested in this sort of information. That said, there's obviously an advanced tilt to the site right now to support our marketing strategy of going after the most avid enthusiasts first, and the general public second.

We are planning to provide some (hopefully) very useful localization features. Ads and sponsorships would be okay as well. We have sunk in personal investment, but we don't owe any outside financiers; read: we don't feel pressured to make huge sums, nor must we to make anyone happy.

Re: Our hurricane-tracking startup

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Great work. Keep it up. Someone should buy these guys quickly. I see you guys are using S3. There's no doubt that you have a ton of info. The trick is not to overwhelm the user with that info but at the same time have it easy for them to access it and interpret it if they wanted.

Thanks for the encouragement.

S3, yes. We're happy so far.

Feel free to point out any trouble spots with information density vs. legibility.

Re: Our hurricane-tracking startup

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Make it work on the cell phone.

By which I assume you mean: 'Make all of it work on the cell phone.' because at least part of it already does.

FlashLite is the answer to getting the Flash component to work on something other than the iPhone :), and I haven't had the time to figure out how to make our ActionScript 2.0 / Flash Player 8 code compatible.

I'm pretty convinced that doing so would be profitable, of course. Problem is, I feel that way about more features/enhancements than we have the time for right now.

Re: Our hurricane-tracking startup

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I had previously ignored this links on News.YC since hurricanes aren't a passion of mine, but glad I checked it out today. Very well done! Excellent job on the site and the interface. I found myself engrossed and playing with the data for much longer than I anticipated. Keep up the good work!
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