I’d like to talk about some of the comments that judges have left me.
Wil Shipley said:
In the end, this is a solution looking for a problem. If I want to know what the weather is like outside, I just look up from my monitor for a moment. I can’t see spending months of my life trying to make that more efficient.
That is probably the biggest critism to this sort of application. However to look at the marketability of finding out the weather I polled some of the most popular weather websites on the Internet. Let’s see how they ranked (Using Alexa.com for rankings):
- bbc.co.uk/weather - 23
- cnn.com/weather - 32
- weather.com - 114
- wwwa.accuweather.com - 623
- theweathernetwork.com - 2,442
So while I agree with what Allan says:
I don’t want my computer to reflect the weather when it is overcast, or for all those dark winter months.
You can’t deny the market for such an app. Its not just about the current weather. Its also about weather forecasting. I don’t want to just give away 100% of the ideas in the first voting round but one of the features that I did talk about was forecasting.
This week I will provide more concepts and ideas for different weather types. But I will also expand on what I think is an important aspect of Atmosphere. Forecasting.
