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Nice 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 de

Nice 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!

wensing 18y ago
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?
- dkokelley 18y ago
  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.
  - delano 18y ago
    The hurricanes are covered quite thoroughly in Canada too (including live coverage). I don't think it's sad though since it's something that can directly affect millions of people and can indirectly affect 10s of millions more (fuel prices, travel, relatives). Events on that scale deserve wide-spread coverage. One aspect that could be considered sad is the relatively low amount of air time international emergencies receive, even ones that are much larger in scale.
    - r7000 18y ago
      ..travel plans. The Caribbean and SW U.S. are huge tourist destinations of course.
jonknee 18y ago
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 such get a lot of mindshare.
- froo 18y ago
  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.
  - wensing 18y ago
    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/ http://stormpulse.wordpress.com/stormpulse-api/
    - jonknee 18y ago
      Nice, that's probably what the St Pete Times was using when I first saw you guys.
    - froo 18y ago
      awesome work guys, I admit I only had a very quick skim around the site and couldn't find it.
      - wensing 18y ago
        Not to sound more successful than we are :-), but since it's the kind of thing folks on here might like to know ... if we made it any more visible it would probably not be a good thing at this point.
- 18y ago

wensing 18y ago

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?

dkokelley 18y ago
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.
- delano 18y ago
  The hurricanes are covered quite thoroughly in Canada too (including live coverage). I don't think it's sad though since it's something that can directly affect millions of people and can indirectly affect 10s of millions more (fuel prices, travel, relatives). Events on that scale deserve wide-spread coverage. One aspect that could be considered sad is the relatively low amount of air time international emergencies receive, even ones that are much larger in scale.
  - r7000 18y ago
    ..travel plans. The Caribbean and SW U.S. are huge tourist destinations of course.

jonknee 18y ago

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 such get a lot of mindshare.

froo 18y ago
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.
- wensing 18y ago
  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/ http://stormpulse.wordpress.com/stormpulse-api/
  - jonknee 18y ago
    Nice, that's probably what the St Pete Times was using when I first saw you guys.
  - froo 18y ago
    awesome work guys, I admit I only had a very quick skim around the site and couldn't find it.
    - wensing 18y ago
      Not to sound more successful than we are :-), but since it's the kind of thing folks on here might like to know ... if we made it any more visible it would probably not be a good thing at this point.
18y ago