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Show HN: Howeather – Ask locals the weather before you go there (itunes.apple.com)
3 points by yunnnyunnn on Oct 9, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


1) Why ask locals when websites like weather.com available? 2) How a user can find locals to the location he/she would go? Before even worrying about recruiting/attracting users, I would try to spend sometime on identifying why this app is valuable comparing other well known apps. What is the pain you are fixing?


So happy to see your reply! 1) Websites like weather.com are informative, but they can not solve some realistic problems. You can see it's snowing in an area, but you can not see how the weather is affecting the road condition. You know the temperature is low there, but is heavy coat really needed? You know it's raining heavily there, but how heavy is it? Is it still ok to travel there? Howeather can give you a real-life measure of weather conditions, instead of just numbers. It solves more realistic problems. 2) How a user can find locals to the location he/she would go? This is what Howeather does! Users don't need to worry about how to find one. They just simply choose a location and ask, then Howeather will match them with the locals to get the answer ASAP. Plus push notifications, the delivery of the realistic weather information also becomes real-time in Howeather. I appreciate more questions :D


Hey folks, I've been working on this project for a while. I think it would be useful if there are a lot of users. But initially I need to figure out how to attract new users. Any idea or criticism?




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