StormWatch
Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists
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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)
HN · launched Jan 24, 2026 · 45 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: personal and family safety apps · 122 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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 : 179 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #41 of 180 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 58 days after the earliest competitor.
- StormWeatherEU · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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- NOAA Weather Radar Live · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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- ZoomRadar · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Aarthat Weather · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site · hn · 2026-07-25 · 228 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- WeatherLike · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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