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I'm the dev for this, so can shed some light on this! Weather Underground was a pretty out there choice- I guess the kind of people who like putting together we
by alexander0042 4y ago
I'm the dev for this, so can shed some light on this! Weather Underground was a pretty out there choice- I guess the kind of people who like putting together weather APIs aren't great at naming things. I considered "Bright Ground", and still have the domain name for it, so maybe it'd be worth spinning up another API endpoint/ branding that uses that and has a more commercial focus, keeping Pirate Weather as the free and open source branding.
- ummonk 4y agoThat would actually be a great idea.
- guntherhermann 4y agoFWIW I love the name Pirate Weather. Thanks for the work!
- nivenkos 4y agoWeather Underground would be hilarious.
- zerocrates 4y agoNot only is it already a thing, IBM of all people own them now.
- astrange 4y agoWe took the real Weather Underground so unseriously that half of them became college professors and one of them was on Jeopardy, seems consistent.
- wallfacer120 4y ago[dead]
- Bloating 4y agowunderground.com has existed for a long time. Defining feature it is can crowd source weather
- phpisthebest 4y agoThat used to be the defining feature. IBM has killed the community and put alot of restrictions on the data
- midoridensha 4y agoI wonder if they put the codebase into ClearCase too.
- maphew 4y agoRrr-mate, Rmate, Are-matey, And variants thereof perhaps
- argc 4y agoI like the name pirate weather a lot.
- dbuder 4y agoKeep the name - this is not vc bait