Ask HN: Dark Sky is gone. How can it be rebuild sustainably? What I want: Weather applications on my smartphones without necessarily sharing my current location. If I do share my location, I don't want my location data to be sold or shared. What else I want: Privacy respecting mobile applications for other use cases. But let's start with the weather. I noticed today on my Android phone that Dark Sky was finally shut off and no longer received weather data. A few Google/DuckDuckBingo searches suggested there is no clear privacy oriented successor weather app with similar functionality. Any future successors that come from Kickstarter or cool startup kids will fall victim to the same scenario. Are there any projects working on these areas now, like a 501(c)(3) that's both more modern and less rigid than the FSF? Billions of people just want to know the weather. |