Windows 95–style Weather App for iPhone
Details
- External ID
- 47558530
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Windows 95–style Weather App for iPhone
- Website domain
- apple.com
- Launched
- March 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6439114391143912
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I built a Windows 95–style weather app for iPhone.
Enrichment
- Theme
- cross-device control and OS utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- weather app with windows 95 styling
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an iOS weather app pairing standard Open-Meteo REST API queries with retro Windows 95 UI styling.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Not actually pixel perfect to Windows 95, Controls don't match authentic Windows 95, Misleading 'pixel perfect' branding
Feature requests: Show icons and information display options, Dark mode support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 100 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #49 of 101 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 134 days after the earliest competitor.
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- GrayCloud · hn · 2026-06-04 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- FitCast: Weather & Activity · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Big Weather · ph · 2026-09-26 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- DayDrop · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Sensecast · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.