Show HN: I made a tool for analyzing wind conditions for bike rides

[Marsolgen]

Hi all, Wanted to share a project I just launched. WindMate is a web app that integrates with Strava to give users insights into how their rides are being affected by weather conditions. I use weather data from tomorrow.io which is the gold standard in the industry, so it is super accurate. Users can see current conditions for any route, as well as an hourly forecast up to 12 hours ahead for users on the free plan and 2 days ahead for WindMate+ subscribers (priced at only 2.50/month :) ) It also features an automatic caption generator for activities on Strava, which breaks down the wind conditions on that particular ride so you can share it. In addition to that - and I haven't found a single other service that does this - you can see how weather conditions affected your *past* rides, no matter how far back. I've received a lot of good feedback on that feature! Plus, the design is clean and features a cute penguin (pengwind?) so check it out!

For people who are curious about how it works under the hood, it is basically built to connect easily with a Strava account (ie. no account creation needed!), then uses their API to get data about rides and the segments the user is interested in. We get hyperlocal hourly weather data from tomorrow.io that is mapped onto the segment polyline to display which sections will be a headwind/crosswind/tailwind. The analysis also factors in wind magnitude, temperature and air pressure. The project is built in React with a Firebase backend (Firestore + Cloud Functions)

Would love to hear your feedback!

[taivare]

You could expand this for Fly Fishing. Example use: I want to fly fish a lake by bank or boat if one could see wind data they could save a lot of time on the river, stream, lake. Wind affects fly fishing a lot.

[Marsolgen]

Good point, never thought of this hahah, maybe in the future :)

[playingalong]

I haven't tried yours, but the description seem very much like Mywindsock, which I saw people using in my Strava feed.

[Marsolgen]

Definitely some feature overlap yes, but as a former mywindsock user I saw the room for improvement. In my experience mywindsock was pretty difficult to understand, and seems to not have been updated in years. Comparatively, WindMate is more intuitive, a lot more affordable and has features that can't be found anywhere else (eg. weather condition analysis for previous efforts)