I built a weather site for the Eastern Caribbean
Details
- External ID
- 47709917
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- April 9, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6446015424164524
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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/
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
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- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- weather information for eastern caribbean
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
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