Gabriel Menendez

When you build a startup, it is easy to fall in love with your own product. The landing page looks slick. The app feels polished. In your head, it seems obvious people should be showing up. Then reality hits. No traffic, no users, no momentum. You start wondering how something that feels so good can still feel invisible.

That was my wake up call with Brzzy Weather. I thought if I built a great weather app and optimized around weather app search, people would find me. Instead, I got humbled fast. I was basically a nothing burger buried deep in Google(does anyone even use Bing?), somewhere around page five, and most people searching never make it past the top few results. It made me realize that having a product is not the same thing as having a funnel.

I used to live in spreadsheets, forecasts, budgets, and boardroom logic.

Then I started building Brzzy. Not because the world needed another weather app. Because I couldn t stop thinking: why does something we check every single day feel so lifeless?

I used to love playing Falling Sand, so I built my own version you can play right in your browser.

I added weather effects, chain reactions, and synth style sound effects to make it feel a little fresh while keeping the same chaotic fun that made the original so addictive.

Would love any feedback on the gameplay, effects, and overall feel. What would you add next?