There's a chance that the audience here hasn't yet seen <a href="http://forecast.io" rel="nofollow">http://forecast.io</a> or the Dark Sky app.<p>This is a shame. They are radically better weather experiences than any you've seen before. Go check them out now.
Dark Sky has been letting me down in some pretty grandiose ways over the last few months, to the point where my wife sees my unbroken faith in it as a kind of running joke.<p>The "Are they going to fuck things up?" section at the bottom of their post certainly sheds some light on why the reliability has dropped off of late.<p>For whatever reason where I live in Brooklyn is completely unreliable. If the problem is scaling, I guess it would makes sense that they're choking on the volume of users in the NYC region<p>Glad to see that instead of selling to the weather channel or something they're continuing to put engineering muscle behind it. Dark Sky & Forecast.io are just awesome and I really want to see these guys succeed.
This is fascinating from a startup funding point of view, especially the rather bracing bluntness in the last paragraph ("Are they going to fuck things up?").
I love forecast.io and I was happy when I finally found a good Android forecast.io app, Weather Timeline: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston.weather" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samruston....</a><p>Three things I’d like to comment on after reading the post:<p>1. The post title confuses me: Looking at the content of the post, I understand that Dark Sky has a new co-owner rather than a new owner.<p>2. I enjoyed the openness and directness of the last paragraph.<p>3. I did not enjoy the language at a couple of places. :-)<p>Congratulations and best wishes for the future of the company, its services and its apps!
The service engine I've been building to power <a href="http://www.ifweather.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ifweather.com</a> is powered by their API. I'm not sure I would have picked their API originally had I known the company was run by just two guys, but I am very pleased with the API so far. I'm happy to hear that the API is "going to be a big priority for us going forward". Many best wishes and best of luck to Adam and Jay as this new sunrise for your business begins.
I love the app but I've found the data feed can sometimes be spotty (maybe this is just in Chicago)? For example, it's snowing outside right now and Dark Sky shows no precipitation for the next hour. Yahoo Weather correctly showed it was snowing (and showed it was likely to continue for several hours, so I parked in the garage).<p>It would be useful to have some insight into the underlying data, it's freshness, and an easy way to report inaccuracy (I've sent support emails but they've gone unanswered -- I assume the support load is enormous for a small team).
I've been using their APIs in the past, they're definitely the most developer-friendly forecast service that I know of. It's good to see their hard work is paying off!
I love this app. The only issue I've been noticing lately is it's been predicting snow when it's really rain. I wonder what could be causing that.
Congrats on the deal. I've been using Dark Sky for about a year and it compliments the longer term Weather iOS app fantastically. I can't tell you how many times I've been about to go for a walk only to check the app and see a heavy 10 min shower starting in a few minutes. It's great being able to delay a few minutes and not get soaked!
Since the server seems to be too busy: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fblog.forecast.io%2Fdark-sky-has-a-new-owner%2F" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...</a>
We built <a href="http://weatherornot.io" rel="nofollow">http://weatherornot.io</a> on top of the forecast.io API and these guys do awesome work.<p>Adam, Jay, thanks a lot for the quick support and the high quality API. You guys are doing awesome work! Keep it up.
As a user of their great API I have asked myself (strangely very recently) what would I do if forecast.io ever disappeared... Hopefully with this change I'm less to have to find out.<p>Please keep the API up and running! And congratulations!
This is great news. forecast.io is often the 2nd thing I check when I wake up, after checking email/texts.<p>Hopefully with more devs and support, an Android version of the app will be in the works!
Congrats on the news! I was one of the kickstarter contributors and love the service. Best wishes to your future growth. It's amazing to see a KS campaign blossom.
I've long been a big fan of the app, and I also quite liked this post. Thanks for all the lovely weather predictions so far and congrats on the deal!
heh I love their openness and I also love their app and API. From a consumer perspective, I'm happy for them and hope they don't go away anytime soon.<p>And in case you're not aware their hourly feed has kick ass data that is amazingly accurate.