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Show HN: High School Student's First App – NWS Weather Report

62 points| Orcazephyr | 1 year ago |weatherreportnow.com | reply

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[+] haliskerbas|1 year ago|reply
Congrats on the launch and slick website! Not sure what has gotten everyone's undies in a knot this morning but keep up the passion for creating things. I wish I continued to build things but I feel like the older one gets the more doubt that sets in. Let's all strive to have constructive feedback and work on our passions!
[+] exhilaration|1 year ago|reply
Does anyone know if there's an official NWS API you can pull from? Is that what this app uses? The NWS weather.gov site is my go-to for weather (no ads, no tracking) but the UI isn't great, I'd love to build my own customized front-end for it.
[+] acomjean|1 year ago|reply
I use the hourly line chart graphical display on weather.gov. I got good at reading it, and really like my weather that way.

Don't think they have an api.

[+] banga|1 year ago|reply
Nice app, but uninstalled immediately due to obtrusive advertisements.
[+] hut8|1 year ago|reply
Idea for any weather app: integration with driving directions via Google Maps API or OSM. Going on long trips without this is super dangerous on a motorcycle but all drivers could benefit. It's easy to optimize for minimizing dollars or time spent, but optimizing for minimizing chances of death due to weather is lacking.
[+] throwaway4220|1 year ago|reply
Can you change the png to a jpg in the home page? it takes a long time for me to load it on a slow connection
[+] spiffytech|1 year ago|reply
Running the image through oxipng reduced it from 1.5MB to 1MB.

It's still big, but I like to do that as a standard practice when I put PNGs on my websites. It's a free win.

[+] jareklupinski|1 year ago|reply
for a second i grokked "NWS" as "Not Work Safe", and thought of that website from a long time ago that was like thef-ingweather.com , which gave you a very salty forecast
[+] warkdarrior|1 year ago|reply
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[+] dang|1 year ago|reply
This comment breaks the site guidelines and especially the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). Please don't do that.

This is especially important when kids or students are presenting their work. The last thing they need is to run into a bunch of internet jerks—and it's not who we want this community to be, either.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the rules more to heart, we'd be grateful. You've unfortunately been breaking them in other places too (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285885).

[+] leokennis|1 year ago|reply
If you want to see the free data, bookmark https://www.weather.gov/. If that works out for you, fantastic. If you want that data presented in a mobile friendly, quick glanceable way with added device specific creature comforts like widgets, notifications etc. it's $2 a month.

I fail to see the rip-off here.

[+] foooorsyth|1 year ago|reply
Good software that you use every day isn’t worth less than a cup of coffee for you? That’s fine, don’t buy it. Good UIs take time and skill to build. Should this student just do this for free? iOS users have money for software they use — $2/mo is perfectly reasonable.
[+] nicgrev|1 year ago|reply
Dude, the developer is a highschooler, calm down. There is also a free version.
[+] wnissen|1 year ago|reply
I know the reason why the NWS website is so crummy is because they deliberately don’t want to compete with commercial sites. But I have really wanted an app that presents the same data. The NWS website is mobile unfriendly. Thanks for sharing!