I used the ClimaCell api about a year ago as part of a POC and it was pretty nice.
The biggest feature for my use case was their granularity. The ability to query the service using a point (lat/long) and have returned the specific weather for that location was nice.
All other services required two requests, one to find the nearest weather station, another to query said station for data. ClimaCells model predicts weather for locations where no forecast data exists.
I would recommend ground-truthing the forecasted vs actuals for the modeled areas.
Beyond their api, they have a pretty killer dashboard where you can plot your assets and set geofences for weather alerts.
Photovoltaics (PV) is not a new technology. It’s been in production-state since the 50’s and powering percentages of some countries for at least the past ~5 years.
Adopt the existing, proven and cost-effective implementation of PV (~3’ x ~5’ aluminum framed panels).
Waiting on Elon to figure out boutique solar so the affluent can all install it first and drive mass adoption (decade?) stalls PV development as much as the US tariff on Chinese-made solar!
- 100ft.2 of solar panels (Qty: 5, off the shelf, ~3’ x ~5’ panels) = ~1kW of AC electricity (post-inverter, in low-sun Seattle)
- At the roof, this represents 10 wires and ~8 roof penetrations (racking lags through flashing into rafters)
AKA: simple setup, proven implementation
Questions:
- How many wires (points of failure) are in 100ft.2 of solar shingles?
- How many roof penetrations?
- How many roofer-electricians do you know?
- Why can we not just embrace existing panel technology and put them everywhere, yesterday?
Rant:
- We don’t need boutique renewable energy, we need ubiquitous RE.
- Elon, get your priorities straight. In the three years you’ve been trying to figure out the perfect solar status symbol, you could have installed megawatts of photovoltaics.
> Elon, get your priorities straight. In the three years you’ve been trying to figure out the perfect solar status symbol, you could have installed megawatts of photovoltaics.
They already do regular solar installs and so do a ton of other competitors. This is a boutique product for people who care about aesthetics and are willing to pay a premium for it.
I really want the things Guix provides, but I'm not a computer scientist. Feels like you need to be to make it work somewhat like the linux desktop I enjoy computing on (text editor, graphical web browser, sky, virtualbox, postman, osb, keepassxc, etc.)
Guix is also working on an installer to help reducing the friction. I'd personally like to work on a fully graphical install + package management.
While Guix sounds like some heavy scientific stuff, it really is a powerful base that allows anything to grow on top, including user-friendly interfaces.
I'm one of the Guix co-maintainers and a Guix user, but I'm not a computer scientist.
The biggest thing that might be annoying for someone who is not comfortable with Lisp is probably the operating system configuration, which is done with Scheme. For installing packages, however, you can use the command line interface, or the convenient Emacs user interface --- neither of those require any programming knowledge.
Sadly the innovation in Guix and Nix is to bring even more complication what should be the straight-forward task of getting software on your machine, not less.
Hello,
Very interesting. I've been using Edge's built-in voice reading a lot more recently for the exact case you mention on your homepage: listening while working.
I have two questions for you after reading your TOS and Privacy Policy. I was expecting to see "you" scraping data from each site or otherwise monetizing the service, but nothing stood out.
Either your TOS/PP is incorrect, or you don't have an obvious income stream for the service you are rendering.
So the questions: Who are you? and How are you doing this for free?
Good to see others checking TOS/PP too, and asking these questions. Especially as there is absolutely no transparency. Who is the company, or some people behind this, contact email? The TOS says 'use at own risk, we are not liable for anything' and also mentions 'Refund policy' (?).
The domain is namecheap, no more info. And the HN user tiburon is a new account.
There are 4 trackers on the site. Besides GTM (mentioned in PP) there is twitter-ads.
Yea, I read the indiehackers thread and understand you currently focus mostly on the technical side.
I assume you'll have the business side well thought out too. My feedback would be to be as transparent as possible, once adding commercial services, and turn that into a true USP.
In light of the various concerns, it would be helpful (read: to many here essential) if you elaborated more. What other products? Is there a contact email? Etc.
why it really matters on who I am? I'm a developer with passion to help people listen to podcasts and the idea was simple. How can I offer it for free? I do a lot of work to make it happen, there will be a premium version with more features which are being cooked with the help of many developers who loved the idea too.
You know ten years ago I would have 100% agreed with you. In fact I would have been outraged as to why anyone would want to know.
And yet today, I consider the provenance of a product to be more or less my No. 1 consideration in whether I will use it or not.
We live in a world where brands and products are established, then monetized and eventually their userbase becomes just a trading chip that passes from hand to hand. We're giving access or money or trusting systems and we really have no control over the transfer of that trust, data or money.
So unfortunately now, yes it really matters a lot. You're asking me to add code to a website of mine: I want your address, your email, your phone number...I need to know who you really are.
Given the purpose “to help people listen to podcasts”, I’m a bit puzzled about which end you’re tackling it from. Does it not make more sense to work on the user’s side, on browser software, where you can make all sites work, rather than helping the odd site here or there to support this? When approached from the website side, I don’t expect many to adopt it.
(On the browser side, I am aware that various browsers have speech controls hooked up, most commonly inside a Reader Mode—to say nothing of screen readers, which have a different target market. There’s also the Web Speech API which could be used to replicate WebsiteVoice’s functionality using whatever voices are offered by the user’s device. Its quality will be heavily platform-dependent.)
It matters because one of your potential customers thinks it matters. And presumably because services without a business model don't have a long future.
timClicks that is not true, there are many products out there that do not rely on capitals, It does not matter who I am personally. The service is free of charge until we cannot make it free of charge anymore for whatever reason. We are focusing now on user's feedbacks who already added the widget. you can find more answers on our business model there. https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/finished-mvp-to-turn-blog...
Out of curiosity, are you not some variation of a programmer or engineer like the majority of people here? Asking because I wasn't able to combine my work with anything demanding mode attention than music.
(However, I must say that audiobooks go splendidly with manual work that doesn't require much thinking.)
/home almost exclusively .folders.
/home/documents/<everything is a project>
Every <project> is a private git repo
/home/documents is my only VS Code Workspace
Everything is markdown with yaml frontmatter.
Everything possible is a snippet.
All screenshots are pasted into an .md file. The VS Code extension places each at /project/assets.
All photos and videos are taken and stored on phones.
Backed up to external drives every 6 months or so.
/home/Desktop is empty, /home/Downloads gets emptied often
