Great, I'm hoping you'll sign up for my upcoming weather widget which tells you the weather in a single location. It's only $30 a month, and it will save you time as you will no longer have to use any other weather widget.
At some point in the future I plan on offering additional locations (at a compellingly low per location monthly service fee TBD).
As great as the endless possibilities software offers are, it really obscures the amount of effort necessary to bring real world products to life. The jump in hubris from “Great, I can code!” to “Well, I could build a tool to do that, so no one deserves to make a living/profit/native app/business doing it” is waaaay too prevalent around here.
Of course none of the people who say such things could actually do so. Instead, they continue to post the aforementioned type of comment along with the following:
- Ask HN: Where are all the profitable ideas?
- Show HN: I built some half-assed idea that no one will ever use to learn the latest technology fad.
- Who’s Hiring: I hate my job at some random SaaS firm because I hypocritically don’t assign worth to building software.
Anyhow, where is this mythical weather widget getting its data? How reliable are its forecasts? What makes it better than the tools Apple/Google build into their OSes after spending millions acquiring formerly indie weather tools?
I pay for this its called Forecast bar (https://forecastbar.com) and I love it. Basically Dark Sky for your Mac. Not $30 a month, but there's different tiers of service depending on your needs.
Would I pay for this startups calendar? Probably not, but it seems nice, and I can definitely see people paying 2 cups of coffee a month for it.
I have been looking for a dark sky replacement for a while! Thank you, I just installed forecastbar. If it is even marginally approximate to the original dark sky, I am subscribing!
If I lived in that location, and that widget had a great UI, maybe combined some reminders (good morning, 70% chance of rain today, don't forget your umbrella!), maybe it integrated with my calendar and let me know I need to leave early if I'm in a location far away from where I need to be and it's snowing really bad.
And all of that is ignoring the possibility that the idea is to build into some other thing, but there's minimal advantage to waiting.
Luckily, I live in a place where the weather is the same for 6 months, before it changes and is the same again for 6 months. The ultimate time saver ;)
At some point in the future I plan on offering additional locations (at a compellingly low per location monthly service fee TBD).