Great article and good motivational piece for a few side project I have let fall by the way side.
Brian Modena
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Hey Brian, thanks for the kind words. Yup you’re right, we decided to accept whatever data we could get from an existing source, in order to scope this to something we could actually ship. We believed that most weather apps suffered primarily from poorly-considered or overcomplicated UX/UI, and not really bad data. We decided to use Forecast’s data for this first version.

That said, we’re not entirely happy with it, and we might add multiple-data-source support in the future, or further customize how the data is displayed by writing our own copy (we’re currently just showing whatever comes out of the API.) That’s really a project unto itself, since there are so many different weather conditions and scenarios you have to account for.