I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route
Details
- External ID
- 47661038
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route
- Website domain
- navimodo.com
- Launched
- April 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 55
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8431876606683805
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hello HN,I live in northern part of USA where winters are snowy. Whenever I took long trips, I always wondered what the weather along the route is going to be. For those who live in northern USA, you know weather can change frequently, so when you're traveling matters a lot, not just the route.To solve this problem for myself, I built https://navimodo.com/. NaviModo calculates the route, and then checks weather along the route based on your start time, and displays weather along the route. Change start time, and the whole thing is recalculated.I am not expecting any commercialization for this, just wanted to scratch an itch, and just did it. I have ideas for adding additional features (suggestions for when to take breaks based on bad weather, auto-suggestion of start time to avoid bad weather, etc.,) but will add more as time goes by.Any feedback is welcome!
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- navigation app with route weather
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This can be built in a weekend by querying standard routing APIs (like Mapbox or Google Maps) and sampling waypoints along the route polyline against a public weather forecast API.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Maps, weather.com, Furkot (road trip planning), Flight planning software, Mapy.com weather en route
Concerns raised: OSRM API errors for non-drivable routes, API throttling/rate limiting issues, uBlock Origin blocking router.project-osrm.org requests, Prior art concerns - Air Force virtualization projects and commercial flight planning already do this
Feature requests: Week-long+ road trip planning with weather at each stop and overnight cities, Integration with Furkot trip planning tool, Alternative route comparison with weather differences, Distance unit option (kilometers), "Leave now" quick-start option without manual time adjustment
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 156 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 157 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 136 days after the earliest competitor.
- SeasonMap · hn · 2026-09-16 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- StormWatch · hn · 2026-01-24 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- weather-app · github · 2026-09-24 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GridTravel · hn · 2026-05-14 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- GrayCloud · hn · 2026-06-04 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Ranking weather models by how their forecasts turned out · hn · 2026-08-06 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Weather app to show actual performance of weather models · hn · 2026-05-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- AeroBrief · github · 2026-09-13 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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