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This is why I mentioned that it's not all low hanging fruit. Movie listings? Requires feed integration, handling a lot of data, non-trivial presentation. Same w
by user24 15y ago
This is why I mentioned that it's not all low hanging fruit. Movie listings? Requires feed integration, handling a lot of data, non-trivial presentation. Same with weather. Getting a good weather app is not 10 seconds of coding. Some, like ip address, are simple things, but even so whatismyip.com built a huge range of products around that one simple service.
- catch23 15y agoI always hated how weather sites could not just detect my approximate location based off of ip (eg weather.com) and required me to enter in my zip code, google fixed that.
- artur_ 15y agoAbout a year ago I've built a small weather app which detects users' location using Geolocation API: http://wthr.in http://wthr.in
- eli 15y agohttp://www.wunderground.com/ http://www.wunderground.com/ has worked by geoip for a while now.
- ajross 15y agoPretty sure they got that after google. For years, wunderground was the best of a bunch of terrible web sites. They're still about 40% ads by pixel though, and have a hugely cluttered UI. I'll use them as a second step (Google's "detailed forecast" link) after typing "weather" into the chrome address bar. But broadly, they still suck compared to Google.
- bigethan 15y agohttp://www.wund.com/ http://www.wund.com/ less typing and a much cleaner interface.
- alexitosrv 15y agohttp://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather