Tinyclouds

Your Forecast in a Mini World.

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Your Forecast in a Mini World.

3 followers

Your Forecast in a Mini World. An ever-changing view of the weather. Tinyclouds generates a mini world based on your current weather conditions. Tinyclouds uses the Dark Sky weather service which makes for a super accurate forecast.

Launch tags:iOS•iPad•Weather

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Tinyclouds

Maker

Hello all! I’m happy to release Tinyclouds to the world. Tinyclouds is a weather app with a unique and fun style. The idea for Tinyclouds came from a longtime love of low poly/pixel/iso art. I started playing with the idea over a year ago. I have a wife and four kids so I was only able to work on it here and there. Turns out raising kids and building a product is a slow, frustrating journey. I wouldn’t change it for anything! 😍👱‍♀️👧👦👧👶 Tinyclouds is pretty basic right now, but I think there are a lot of interesting future paths it could take. Thank you!

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8yr ago

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@mikel_io This is really cool! I'm also a huge fan of low polly/pixel art so you've definitely got my attention with the art style. If time wasn't a factor, what kind of features would you like to add in the future?

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8yr ago

Tinyclouds

Maker

@jakecrump Hi Jake! One of the big features I would like to add is different scenes. Right now it shows one simple generic town. I think you could have scenes of different types of places, specific cities, funny situations, maybe some current events, etc... I think a weather app like this needs to be always changing and put a smile on your face each day. That's my vision! I also would like to improve the weather details. Radar, alerts, details, etc... I believe you can have a weather app that is fun and interesting, while still accurate and useful. Thanks for the question Jake!

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8yr ago

@mikel_io Great work Mikel! Love the idea here and the beauty of it. Have just purchased 🙌

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8yr ago

Callergy

@mikel_io Great work Mikel. It's always nice to hear about entrepreneurs with a family who still create time to realize their dreams. I like the way you have used the SimCity style graphics which gives people a sense of nostalgia and familiarity. Flappy Bird was a big hit and that used similar design. My feedback would be that when the clouds move over, they block the view but I suppose that you are trying to show the weather. Have you considered changing the angle so you are looking up from the ground to see the clouds?

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8yr ago

Tinyclouds

Maker

@davidjlowe Thanks David! I will have to give the "view being blocked" problem some thought, thanks for the feedback! Yep, I spent half of my childhood staring at Sim City (Sim City 2000 for me 😁)

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8yr ago

This is pretty cool. Congrats on the release! Is the weather information only available for US cities?

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8yr ago

Tinyclouds

Maker

@beekay__ Should work globally!

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8yr ago

@mikel_io Great to know. Just downloaded it. Looking forward to seeing where you take this.

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8yr ago

Lazy Jar

Love the concept. Hope to see more features added to it.

I'd go nuts if the environment was a render of a popular city in my location.

Pros:

Cheerful design

Cons:

Needs more features and contextual UI events.

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8yr ago

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Honestly, at first glance I thought “😏 oh no another weather app”, but the video in the App Store really brought it to life! Looks really cool. If you could include tiny people walking around to show how we should dress for the weather, I think that would be an awesome and super helpful add.

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8yr ago

Tinyclouds

Maker

@melissa_inc Thanks Melissa! I would love to add tiny people :)

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8yr ago

This is great, congrats on a fresh new take on what a weather app looks like! Mapbox + Unity have some really cool data that could potentially let you render cities in a semi-accurate way depending on how the current low poly art is rendered!

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8yr ago

Tinyclouds

Maker

@stephensilber Interesting, I'll have to take a look!

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8yr ago

Thanks for making this app, Mikel. The only thing about it that I don't care for is that it indicates SNOW again today. It's late April, for goodness sake. (It is accurate, though.)

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8yr ago

Tinyclouds

Maker

@sandracarden Ha! I have the same problem where I am :)

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8yr ago

As a sucker for isometric pixel stuff, I bought this without thinking. It's just gorgeous. I discovered a bug though. After changing the temperature unit from Fahrenheit to Celsius, the text under 'This Week' still states the temperature in Fahrenheit. Hope it can be fixed soon @mikel_io

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8yr ago

Tinyclouds

Maker

@cleavatron Thanks! Yep, someone else mentioned that bug, I will try to get that fixed.

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8yr ago

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