Have you tried every weather app to replace Dark Sky?
I have. And nothing quite stuck. I want to know when it's going to rain, how much it's going to rain, and what the rest of the day is going to look like, at a glance. I want a privacy-first weather app that doesn't track or sell my data. I want a simple, reliable, ad-free app that will be around for the long haul. So I built GrayCloud.
It started off as a personal app just for my own use. Every night, I would add small tweaks and refinements until the design was exactly how I wanted it to be. Before long, I realized it was actually pretty nice. I posted it on Reddit, and within 24 hours 1,000 people had signed up for TestFlight. I spent the next few weeks iterating on user feedback and pushing updates.
GrayCloud is not a wrapper UI around a third-party weather API. GrayCloud is a weather service with a custom rain prediction model and a killer app.
We are currently a one-man team, proudly based in Philadelphia, PA. I say "we" because I see GrayCloud growing into a small, bootstrapped team as subscriptions grow.
I've been building software for more than 10 years, from small startups creating tools for pro sports teams to feature development for apps with millions of users while at Amazon. Getting to work on an indie app used by thousands of people, full time, is a dream come true.
I obsess over the details: the simplicity of the user interface, the speed of the app load, the accuracy of the rain prediction, so your forecast is the best it can be.
GrayCloud is available on the App Store.
— Ryan