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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
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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.

Other launches for this product

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