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Re: Acme Weather

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Post by bromuro »

mlrtime wrote: post #56
jwr wrote: post #14

Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others… "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Why not look into it instead of complaining about something you have no right to have in the first place? Maybe the market is too small, maybe it will come with the next version, maybe there are EU barriers that prevent implementation? This constant complaining about something that didn't exist 1 second ago is tiresome.

Dark Sky weather app never landed in Europe while it was available in US for years. The complaint is legit.

Re: Acme Weather

#72

Post by sixtyj »

jwr wrote: post #14

Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others… "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Windy.com - both website and app. It covers the whole world and seems that they have very large number of models available.

Re: Acme Weather

#73

Post by esperent »

sixtyj wrote: post #72
jwr wrote: post #14

Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others… "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Windy.com - both website and app. It covers the whole world and seems that they have very large number of models available.

Also yr.no app - the Norwegian weather service. Covers the whole world, uses a decent selection of models. I go between this and windy.

Re: Acme Weather

#74

Post by caseyohara »

jwr wrote: post #14

Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others… "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

I doubt people would complain this much if they came across a weather app that is only supported in the EU or China or India. No one would say

Yet another China-only app with China-only weather, I guess, like countless others…

"Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Build your own EU weather app if you care so much. No one is obligated to support their software in the part of the world you happen to live.

Re: Acme Weather

#75

Post by WarmWash »

jwr wrote: post #14

Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others… "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

All Europe has to do is let grind-culture young people become billionaires and they'll have all the cool (and necessary) software they could imagine.

The US might suck socially, but the other side of that coin is that it gets all the cool stuff.

Re: Acme Weather

#78

Post by [deleted] »

greatgib wrote: post #42

We don't care about a Weather app. Very easy to do and there are millions of it. What is missing is good freely accessible data /api for weather info. Most free one are disappearing and frustratingly in most countries, the weather agency you pay with your tax will not provide it for you.

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Re: Acme Weather

#79

Post by sschueller »

ca6d8815 wrote: post #18
jwr wrote: post #14

Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others… "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do not provide your app to.

Try your local weather app. Here in Switzerland the MeteoSwiss app is absolutely wonderful, and has all these main features: - Uncertainty bands in the forecast (the bands are a better UX than more lines imo) - User-supplied reports - Many many many different maps (snow / cloud / wind / sunshine / air quality / etc) - Alerts (not notifications, but real alerts to watch out for something) Plus many more other features…

In Switzerland all weather data is now also open and accessible via API. You can also use it for commercial purposes.

https://www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/services-and-publications/se...

Re: Acme Weather

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Post by kmbfjr »

imiric wrote: post #27

How are weather apps still relevant, let alone profitable enough to build a company around? This problem has been solved years ago. All the app needs to do is hook up to one or more data providers, and show some stats and pretty graphs. It's essentially a read-only frontend to an API. There are plenty of options to choose from on every platform, including not using an app at all. The features this ad promotes all see…

You are not wrong, except at scale it gets complicated quickly. For starters, to support large user numbers, you’re going to have to process your own grib2 data for radar and turn them into tiles at zoom levels.

It takes about 24 cores with a GPU to do CONUS, Canada, Alaska, Pacific and Caribbean data. This should be 2x for redundancy. Even being cheap with main processing in my basement (gen power, backup internet) the cloud costs to serve it are $200 month plus data transfer. The standby grib machine spins up should it not see the cheap primary or the NOAAPort receiver is offline.

There is no money to be made without whoring out your user’s privacy. People just won’t pay for a privacy focused weather app. I keep this going as a hobby.

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