Ask HN: Dark Sky is gone. How can it be rebuild sustainably?
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Here are some options, saw this article shortly after posting my last comment here https://www.theverge.com/21307332/dark-sky-alternatives-weat...
It isn't an app, but would you be satisfied to check a website like weather.gov, or the many other weather websites? If they want to track you you could get an ad/tracker blocker.
That's an option, the NWS is the United States is good and I suspect other countries have similar organizations.
How do you want to pay for the app and the infrastructure to deliver the data? In my experience the overwhelming number of users expect to get apps for free and data for free
Dark Sky had no issues charging a fair subscription fee for their app, and it got the acquired by Apple.
What else I want: Privacy respecting mobile applications for other use cases. But let's start with the weather.
I noticed today on my Android phone that Dark Sky was finally shut off and no longer received weather data. A few Google/DuckDuckBingo searches suggested there is no clear privacy oriented successor weather app with similar functionality. Any future successors that come from Kickstarter or cool startup kids will fall victim to the same scenario.
Are there any projects working on these areas now, like a 501(c)(3) that's both more modern and less rigid than the FSF? Billions of people just want to know the weather.