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Windows 95–style Weather App for iPhone

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I built a Windows 95–style weather app for iPhone.

HN · launched Mar 28, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views

Niche: mobile system utility apps · 186 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▲ +6% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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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 : 271 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #123 of 272 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 134 days after the earliest competitor.

  • weather-app · github · 2026-10-24 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • weather-app · github · 2026-09-24 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Wind Ready · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Comic Weather · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Boros Weather · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • MeteoLupa · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • SnowWall · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Cloud Calendars: Sync & Widget · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49

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