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leawi • Apr 1, 2026
I love this! Both creative and practical, in my opinion. Perhaps additional information (humidity, UV levels, etc.) could be optionally added as additional color-coded rings with numbers, like the temperature?
PayToExist • Apr 1, 2026
This is beautiful!
This would be great as widget or an app.
Add 24h time for us non americans ;)
kraftaa • Apr 1, 2026
neat! and very visual, easier to see the weather by time, would love if such widget would be available for the mobile devices.
world2vec • Apr 1, 2026
Very pretty. Would be cool if the Moon followed the real Moon phases (if the sky is clear enough to see it). For example April 2nd is full moon and the sky is clear so the Moon in your Sundial should be full too.
bdbdbdb • Apr 1, 2026
I absolutely love this, it's beautiful. Kudos for the truly original ideas here in the UI. I love to see radial design patterns - everything is boring grids and rows and columns
kseistrup • Apr 1, 2026
I like the design end the concept. I would like to be able to choose 24h times, though – we don't use am/pm around here.
thiscaspar • Apr 1, 2026
Bookmarked, such a refreshing view at the weather.For me, this simple version is enough 80% of the time, if i ever need more details i'll find the usual sources.
cousinbryce • Mar 31, 2026
This is great. Showing only even hours would be less text, maybe as an option.
As I’m looking at it to plan late night activities it shows this mornings forecast where I kind of expect tomorrow’s. Maybe make a continual S curve that can be scrolled by touch? Maybe less elegant, maybe more?
Unai • Mar 31, 2026
Pretty cool idea and execution. This is the first weather app I can see myself using instead of whatever my phone or google puts in front of me; but I often need more data, mostly humidity and wind speed and direction. Also rain seems to be a boolean, but precipitation percentages would be much more clear.Having both the dial and the more common horizontal table / graph would make it the perfect weather app for me. Maybe those could be integrated into the dial, like wavy rings?In any case, nicely done!
Finnoid • Mar 31, 2026
Very neat! I like that I get a better “feel” of the whole day’s weather from the ring than most weather apps.But it takes a bit more thinking and interaction to understand how the weather develops. For example, I like to see how the temperature changes during the day and for that, I find a graph illustrates the hourly changes better than just numbers and colors, but the information is obviously available here too. Just requires but more thinking from the user.Are you thinking adding other things like humidity and wind? If so, would you try to fit more information to the dial or add some popups or something else?

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