Sundial
a new way to look at a weather forecast
Details
- External ID
- 47588324
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sundial
- Website domain
- sundial.page
- Launched
- March 31, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 66
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8683886838868389
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- web development and browser utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- weather forecast visualization
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Sundial is an alternative visualization weather forecasting web application. Calling open weather APIs and presenting the results in a creative web UI is a classic vibe-coding project.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google weather, Phone default weather app, Traditional weather sources
Concerns raised: Postcode search gets stuck in loop, Sunset time accuracy issues, DST not accounted for in US timezones, Rain shown as boolean instead of percentage, Moon phases don't match real data
Feature requests: 24-hour time format option, Additional data rings (humidity, UV, wind speed/direction), Mobile widget or app version, Show date display, Even hours only option
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 544 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #63 of 545 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 153 days after the earliest competitor.
- WeatherOrNot a maximal weather app in the terminal · hn · 2025-11-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Lotus weather · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Weather app to show actual performance of weather models · hn · 2026-05-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Powered Global Weather · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- weather-app · github · 2026-09-24 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- AeroBrief · github · 2026-09-13 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Visual-HN · hn · 2026-07-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- HN Glance · hn · 2026-07-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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