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Hi HN, I'm making an indie, privacy-focused visual forecast app for iOS and Apple Watch, and have added a Dark Sky-style view a few days ago. Here's the link:
by tomaskafka 4y ago
Hi HN, I'm making an indie, privacy-focused visual forecast app for iOS and Apple Watch, and have added a Dark Sky-style view a few days ago.
Here's the link: https://weathergraph.app https://weathergraph.app
Screenshots: https://impresskit.net/6430c7f0-b34b-418f-9824-f386f939be9a/images https://impresskit.net/6430c7f0-b34b-418f-9824-f386f939be9a/...
Compared to Apple Weather, it uses more weather sources (and often better - Foreca often ranks in top 3 at https://forecastadvisor.com https://forecastadvisor.com and has 3-hour nowcast on par with Dark Sky), shows more forecast metrics (like wind speed & direction, humidity & dew point, UV index, etc.) and you can pick a color theme and metrics to display.
The app provides quite nice home screen and lock screen widgets for iOS, and many people say it’s the best weather complication for Apple Watch.
I am outdoor runner and biker, and as I built the app for myself, I made sure that the watch (and phone) app doesn’t go blank when it loses the connection or when you go running/biking without an LTE watch. Instead, it caches the last known forecast for up to 24 hours, as that's when the hourly forecast is still reasonably reliable, and shows ‘what would the weather according to the last forecast be right now’.
Weathergraph is also privacy focused (no ads or tracking), as that is how I want all apps on my phone/watch to behave.
The basic app with Dark Sky view and yr.no forecast is free, all the data sources and customizability can be unlocked with a subscription or a single payment.
Ask me anything :).