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https://www.thechillypony.com https://www.thechillypony.com An email alert for horse owners/barn managers when the forecast will be colder than a configured th
by modoc 7y ago
https://www.thechillypony.com https://www.thechillypony.com
An email alert for horse owners/barn managers when the forecast will be colder than a configured threshold temperature. It's saved us a lot of mental energy this winter (having to check not just the forecast but also making sure to check the temp at 3 AM with windchill factored in, etc...). Got zero interest from various equestrian forums. shrug.
I taught myself Spring Boot through so that's a win!
- NoOneNew 7y agoDamn, knowing some horse owners, I don't see why they wouldn't like the extra reminder. Sure, you should always know yourself. But a little backup wouldn't hurt. Are you still pushing it? I don't think you should give up on that as just a magnet idea, at the very least. Maybe try fleshing out an extra feature/service? Out of curiosity, how are you handling the emails? In house or 3rd party service?
- modoc 7y agoI'm going to leave it up, and ideally add to it/improve it, but I'm not actively pushing it because I haven't figured out how to do so effectively... I'm currently using SES to send the outbound notifications.
- botwriter 7y agoforums are a tricky one. It needs multiple accounts to shill for you and praise you. I've got BHW and a few other forums wrapped around my little finger.
- tyrust 7y agoContributing to the destruction of online trust is a pretty uncool method of growth hacking.
- williamdclt 7y agoI'm hoping they're talking about multiple legitimate account, held by people that legitimately and individually support what you do. If not, shame
- rozab 7y agoI would generally agree but it's what BHW deserve
- sarakayakomzin 7y agothat's some innovative and technologically monumental work, you must be good at what you do.
- quickthrower2 7y agoHN excepted of course!
- noir_lord 7y agoI'm in the early planning stages of doing something somewhat similar for motorcycle riders (which I am one), you feed it your commute route, typical times and it then sends you a summary of the next days commute (or ride) including interpreting the forecast in the context of a motorcycle (i.e. gust delta against base wind speed, temps below 0 in the preceeding 12hrs, estimated windchill at 40mph, 50mph, 60mph and suggested clothing - plus the ability to set alerts for particulary directions of wind etc). I've zero interest in commercialising it, I'm building it to play with some technologies I want to learn and because it beats anything I've got currently which is mostly just remembering to check the temperature/wind direction for the next day.
- BooneJS 7y agoMy wife and I took a road trip to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA for our honeymoon in 2002. We were passing through a storm along I90 in South Dakota when we later realized we drove between 2 tornados. Since then I've wished that Google Maps would add a road trip weather option given that it predicts roughly where you'll be and when for possibly the next 10 hours in a drive.
- noir_lord 7y agoYep, I've looked for the country I'm in (UK) and no one seems to be doing it, which is weird since in the UK our weather data from our national meteorological provides it's main forecast data under an open license (5000 points, to 3hr accuracy for 5 days) https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/data/datapoint/datapoint-products https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/services/data/datapoint/datapoi... Between that data and open street maps I have most of the raw data I need, the rest is a halfway usable interface, aggregating and interpolating the data and figuring out a nice way to present the results to be easily grokkable.
- thmorton 7y agoI built something like this awhile ago (http://weather.basementserver.org/ http://weather.basementserver.org/) as an afternoon hobby project. I'm shocked that Google hasn't added this feature yet!
- matt_heimer 7y agoI'd suggest making it a little more generic and targeting the agriculture space. Have templates for animal alerts etc but also days without rain when plants need to be watered, etc. You might get more usage from busy people trying to have a backyard garden than more professional farmers that have already solved this problem. And email doesn't cut it as an alert mechanism. You'd need to support both SMS and have native apps to support iOS/Android notifications.
- williamdclt 7y ago> And email doesn't cut it as an alert mechanism I wouldn't invest any time in any other alert medium before verifying this. I doubt it brings anything to the value proposition of the product (but I don't know either, so that would need to be verified)