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SF Microclimates

Details

External ID
46760927
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
SF Microclimates
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Jan. 26, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
54
Upvotes percentile
0.8096179183135704
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

https://microclimates.solofounders.com/

Enrichment

Theme
network bypass and Discord utilities
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
san francisco microclimate mapping
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes A web app displaying microclimate data for San Francisco using existing weather station APIs (such as Weather Underground, Open-Meteo, or PurpleAir) layered onto an interactive map.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Mr Chilly, PurpleAir (direct access)

Concerns raised: PurpleAir sensors placed by users, causing inaccurate/biased data, Temperature accuracy issues due to sensor placement (balconies, heat vents, indoors), Single sensor per neighborhood skews results heavily, Many neighborhoods have no sensor data, Sensors often offline or incorrect readings

Feature requests: Color tiles blue/red gradient to indicate temperature at a glance, Separate Inner and Outer Sunset neighborhoods, Add missing neighborhoods with sensor coverage, Show data source attribution more clearly

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 22 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #8 of 23 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 54 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.