StormWatch
Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists
Details
- External ID
- 46746900
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- StormWatch
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Jan. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 45
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7779973649538867
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Basically was getting annoyed jumping between 5 different sites during this winter storm season, so I built "StormWatch". It's a no-fuss, mobile-friendly webpage (dashboard) that shows all the stuff I was looking for, but in one simple UI.Features:- Real-time NWS alerts with safety tips - Snow/ice/precip accumulation forecasts (+wind) - Dynamic preparation checklists based on your alerts - Supply calculator for your household size - Regional weather newsIt's free, no login required, works on any device. Just enter your ZIP.https://jeisey.github.io/stormwatch/Uses NWS and GDELT APIs and open source. Feel free to fork and modify however you'd like.For builders: - Used an API-testing agent to verify all endpoints, response patterns, types, and rate limits - Used a scope & validation agent to keep the slices simple, focused, and tested - VS-code Copilot (Sonnet 4 for dev agents + Opus 4.5 for scope and validation)
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Energy & climate
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- weather emergency alerts with preparation guides
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a single-page weather dashboard that fetches data from free public APIs (like the National Weather Service API) and displays checklists and forecasts in a responsive UI.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GDELT
Concerns raised: Weather news tab shows spam links in non-English languages (Chinese, Telugu, Russian), GDELT falls back to state level in non-major cities, includes junk results, Limited usefulness for East Coast weather news
Feature requests: Whitelist of news sites/networks to filter spam, Click for location feature instead of requiring zip code
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 69 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 70 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 58 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route · hn · 2026-04-06 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- ZoomRadar · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site · hn · 2026-07-25 · 228 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Weather Today · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Weather Today · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Sensecast · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Ranking weather models by how their forecasts turned out · hn · 2026-08-06 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Natural Disaster Map · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.