Smart of them to give the interface a 24 type look. I think I'll dub it the SutherFace.
Everyone using it, in the back of their mind, will think they have access to the whole world, even if it's only displaying the weather.
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#12Nice work, both on getting techcrunched and on contining work on the site. And I see the site is popular, I wouldn't have thought it, considering the limited demographic. Anyways, congrats and do milk the techcrunch traffic!
I grew up in South Florida, so I figured it would be popular down here. But we are blown away lately by the amount of nation-wide and international interest. TV stations in Washington state have hurricane coverage. Who'd have thought that?
People love emergencies (meaning that everyone wants to watch and see if this will be another Katrina). It's kinda sad, but national emergencies get great ratings - everyone wants to know what's happening, especially considering Katrina and the recent devastation.
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#13Any comments on why you think you weren't accepted?
I don't know for sure. I imagine there were a number of things not working in our favor. I don't want to suggest anything unfounded, but what I can say for sure is that I wasn't willing to move to Boston/SF (I am happily married with two wonderful children and settled in West Palm Beach, FL). Also, we did apply late, and rumor has it that late applications aren't treated as thoroughly.
"Not willing to relocate for 3 months" seems to be pretty critical, even more so than single founders.
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#14Nice work, both on getting techcrunched and on contining work on the site. And I see the site is popular, I wouldn't have thought it, considering the limited demographic. Anyways, congrats and do milk the techcrunch traffic!
You probably don't live in hurricane country. When there is a storm bearing down it's the most important thing in the world to potentially millions of people. One of our local papers teamed up with these guys and were linking them quite a bit (perhaps in a frame, I don't remember) when Fay was coming our way. It's a handy site. So perhaps a limited demographic, but hurricanes are huge news a few times a year and as s…
You know, there's probably an idea in there.
The stormpulse guys could perhaps build a widget that news & nedia sites could embed into their stories so there is instant tracking for each storm right there on the page.
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#15Gosh, I remember providing feedback for this site way back when. It's been much improved. Clearly stormpulse is a labor of love and hard work. Congrats.
Check and see what advice they ended up taking:-)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
You probably don't live in hurricane country. When there is a storm bearing down it's the most important thing in the world to potentially millions of people. One of our local papers teamed up with these guys and were linking them quite a bit (perhaps in a frame, I don't remember) when Fay was coming our way. It's a handy site. So perhaps a limited demographic, but hurricanes are huge news a few times a year and as s…
You know, there's probably an idea in there. The stormpulse guys could perhaps build a widget that news & nedia sites could embed into their stories so there is instant tracking for each storm right there on the page.
We have that. That's actually how we 'got big' (although we're still very small compared to the NHC, CNN, etc.).
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#17Nice work, both on getting techcrunched and on contining work on the site. And I see the site is popular, I wouldn't have thought it, considering the limited demographic. Anyways, congrats and do milk the techcrunch traffic!
You probably don't live in hurricane country. When there is a storm bearing down it's the most important thing in the world to potentially millions of people. One of our local papers teamed up with these guys and were linking them quite a bit (perhaps in a frame, I don't remember) when Fay was coming our way. It's a handy site. So perhaps a limited demographic, but hurricanes are huge news a few times a year and as s…
My brother recently moved to Ft. Myers, Florida, from Oregon. It's kind of weird because all of a sudden hurricanes are not just some event that is on the TV thousands of kilometers from my friends and family. I actually read a bit about them now rather than just sort of glancing and saying "huh... that's going to be a mess".
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#18Smart of them to give the interface a 24 type look. I think I'll dub it the SutherFace. Everyone using it, in the back of their mind, will think they have access to the whole world, even if it's only displaying the weather.
I've actually never seen an episode. :-)
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#19Gosh, I remember providing feedback for this site way back when. It's been much improved. Clearly stormpulse is a labor of love and hard work. Congrats.
Check and see what advice they ended up taking:-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29516
Oh vey, I see I was as impolite 443 days ago as I am today. But I didn't say it was a bad idea, it just is not something that is relevant to me.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know, there's probably an idea in there. The stormpulse guys could perhaps build a widget that news & nedia sites could embed into their stories so there is instant tracking for each storm right there on the page.
We have that. That's actually how we 'got big' (although we're still very small compared to the NHC, CNN, etc.). http://stormpulse.wordpress.com/stormpulse-api/
Nice, that's probably what the St Pete Times was using when I first saw you guys.