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by tndl 2y ago
We've deployed a few dozen, and we don't have a public API right now but send me and email: austin@sorcerer.earth
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by tndl 2y ago
Pretty much this. We add the data the balloons themselves are collecting to make things more precise as well
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by tndl 2y ago
Every once in a while things go spectacularly wrong up there and we kick ourselves for not doing a b2b saas
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by tndl 2y ago
How we make it go up and down is the secret sauce :) I'm a hangglider guy, so I'd love to be using thermals, but I can say that's not how we do it right now
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by tndl 2y ago
We're not hiring right now, but send me an email (austin@sorcerer.earth). And Max did the website, it's built on webflow
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by tndl 2y ago
Let's definitely talk, we're using protobufs right now. I'll send an email
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by tndl 2y ago
We think balloons are pretty cool too! So I can't get into exactly how we do our altitude control, but the Google Loon project has a really great explanation of how they made their (very big) balloons go up and down: https:/&#x2F
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by tndl 2y ago
Thanks! Let me know if you want to chase ours sometime.
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by tndl 2y ago
Our balloons fall under the FAA Part 101 weather balloon exemption, which is based on the weight and purpose (basically it has to be small and has to collect weather data)
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by tndl 2y ago
Being a balloon company means we get to launch pretty much every day, which is very fun :)
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by tndl 2y ago
We cruise in the stratosphere until we gather enough solar power to descend to ground level. On the descent and descent we're collecting soundings, which is the data that's useful for all types of forecasts. Right now we're f
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by tndl 2y ago
Sure thing! They're made of about 300 grams of polyethylene. Towards the end of their lifespan, we can steer them to an area that's easy for us to drive out and pick them up. The payload has a GPS, which lets us track where they a
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by tndl 2y ago
Sent you an email, thanks!
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by tndl 2y ago
Weather balloons (ours included) are pretty small and don't spend much time at the altitudes where planes are. And in the very, very unlikely case a plane were to hit one, our payload is less than 250g (about the mass of a pigeon).
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by tndl 2y ago
The stratosphere is having a renaissance: https://youtu.be/u1rivUSi8p8?t=519
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by tndl 2y ago
Thanks :)
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Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
365 points by tndl 2y ago|172 comments
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Weather Rock(en.wikipedia.org)
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Better weather forecasting: Agricultural/other benefits in low income countries(rethinkpriorities.org)
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Ask HN: Are weather balloons going to be replaced by weather satellites?
7 points by tndl 2y ago|3 comments
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Ancient Upheavals Show How to Geoengineer a Stable Climate(palladiummag.com)
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How we should fix the education system(ellegriffin.substack.com)
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by tndl 4y ago
Was also going to comment about Turing school. I've worked with Turing school grads who were really strong, as well as Galvanize/gSchool grads from the period when Turning and Galvanize were still the same thing. I think Turing Sc
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What if countries had to compete for citizens?(ellegriffin.substack.com)
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The Value of Being Cavalier(write.as)
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by tndl 4y ago
This is a good question. I've struggled with this quite a bit, I used to post exclusively on medium, then everything on my own site ( https://tndl.me ), and now I'm toying with the idea of a substack. But really the impo
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What if we fund artists the way we fund startups?(ellegriffin.substack.com)
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by tndl 5y ago
SumUp | Senior Software Engineer | Full Time, $130k-150k + Equity | ONSITE or REMOTE (Boulder, CO) SumUp is a fintech company focused on empowering small businesses. We're working on a number of exciting products including card accepta
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by tndl 5y ago
SumUp | Tech Lead, Software Engineering | Full Time, Equity, 160k-180k | ONSITE or REMOTE (Boulder, CO) SumUp is a fintech company focused on empowering small businesses. We're primarily focused on enabling merchants to accept payments
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Bootcamp vs. College: Which Will Land You the Most Prestigious Jobs in Tech?(switchup.org)
1 points by tndl 5y ago|1 comments

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