I built a weather site for the Eastern Caribbean
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I built a weather and hurricane tracking site for the Eastern Caribbean islands (https://dewedda.com). PHP, MySQL, Cloudflare, Visual Crossing API, Leaflet.js for maps.The interesting part wasn't the stack. It was realizing how much the interpretation layer matters when you're building for a specific region. Wind descriptions, "feels like" calculations, condition summaries, all tuned for temperate climates by default. I've been reworking them for the Eastern Caribbean audience.Wrote about what I learned: https://hydn.dev/82-degrees-feels-like/
HN · launched Apr 9, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views
Niche: environmental and geospatial analytics software · 124 launches, 16 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
More like this: all 124 launches in environmental and geospatial analytics software →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward weather tracking dashboard that queries a third-party weather API and displays data on a Leaflet map.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 111 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #39 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 142 days after the earliest competitor.
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- StormWeatherEU · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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