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Not sure if you envision getting down to a consumer level in some way, but I race sailboats. There's plenty of people who use forecasting services to get a fore
by dustinmr 9y ago
Not sure if you envision getting down to a consumer level in some way, but I race sailboats. There's plenty of people who use forecasting services to get a forecast tailored to a very small area for their race course or route (think 10 sq miles).
I'd presume that mountain bikers, kayakers, climbers, and really anyone else who is into sports that are dependent on weather may be interested in similar information.
Delivering the information to a community like that seems like it would be too niche for your service, but for the people that already offer services to those people, perhaps there'd be interest.
- milancurcic 9y agoThank you for the feedback! At this point we don't target end consumers, but rather small businesses that create these kind of products. However, we do get a lot of requests for specialized and intuitive graphics/visualization and may go further in that direction later this year.
- mino 9y agoNaive question from a semi-beginner about your market: isn't there already a lot of competition for hyperlocal forecast and good accessible visualizations (e.g., darksky)?
- milancurcic 9y agoMost existing services that I am aware of provide nice visualization of existing publicly available datasets (GFS, NAM, HRRR, etc.). Cloudrun allows the user to create their own forecast product/dataset, so it is mainly a power tool and less a graphics/visualization service.