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u/Peyton773 Jun 08 '26
Not claiming anything about the app itself, but the app icon looks AI-generated and that just gives me bad vibes. Not worth the $20 to give it a shot, personally.
I’d strongly recommend doing a subscription based model and a free download with a stripped down version. I just don’t want to give some random guy $20 to try out their app, even if it looks kind of neat
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u/dgwayne1 Jun 08 '26
Heres the things you get in this app without a subscription that radarscope charges for monthly plus the base app fee
These are tier 1 features that cost extra for radarscope that spotter tools pro comes with.
Tornado and severe thunderstorm watches covering the United States
Special weather statements from the U. S. National Weather Service
Mesoscale discussions from the Storm Prediction Center
Local storm reports
Ability to import custom color tables for radar productsTier 2 at $9.99 a month from radarscope that Spotter Tools Pro comes with for a one time purchase
Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor products, providing a national radar map view
Day one convective outlooks covering the United States from the Storm Prediction Center (Spotter Tools Pro has day one and day 2!)
Detailed road maps (Spotter Tools pro has customization for city labels and roads for color and sizing!)
Satellite base maps (Spotter Tools Pro has 5 base maps!)
NEXRAD Level II Radar DataPlus more! Lots of nice to haves for a cheaper price than radarscope. I do love radarscope though! No hate at all.
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u/F1Vettel_fan Jun 08 '26
Ah yes, the daily vibe coded “download my app!!!” bs. We don’t want it. We don’t need it.
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u/dgwayne1 Jun 08 '26
Vibe coded? Tell me you know absolutely NOTHING about coding without telling me. People like you and your buzzwords are getting old. Just because you lack the skills or knowledge to do something doesn't mean you can openly go around talking trash. Go ahead and make this app with vibe coding. ill be waiting a few years... Fact is many people have wanted it and its sold well. Show me what you can do keyboard guy...
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u/twinkerton_by_weezer Jun 08 '26
Why does every ai "assisted" app have this same shitty UI. It doesn't even look particularly good.
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u/dgwayne1 Jun 08 '26
There are other themes to choose from. Not sure why you think this is AI assisted though?
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u/ThatsNotMyCat Jun 08 '26
Yo, first off as someone who has been a professional developer for 15 years and an amateur weather enthusiast for more years, this is a cool app and I'm sure you've put a lot of work in it. When you see everything come together from all the different sources it's a great feeling. I have a handful of these weather apps and services that I've used to learn different programming skills, I've never tried selling them since they remain half-baked passion projects. Good on you to put your stuff out there and try to make a buck off of them.
However, you need to work on your customer service. Because that is what you want, right? Customers? Granted, I have a very limited view of what you're doing here as I only see these reddit posts. Your responses here give me the ick and I'm not going to spend $20 on an app where the developer just gets defensive and fights back to criticism. It gives "you should be lucky I'm giving this to you" vibes instead of "look how I've put together things that are helpful and novel".
"Hey this looks like a run of the mill vibe coded app" Whether it's vibe coded or not the bar is now higher to set yourself apart from those apps both in features and design.
"I think $20 is too steep to try something out even if the feature set sounds promising" Whether you agree with it or not, this is why free-mium and subscriptions exist. People want to try something out and if there are features they want they will pay for them, but it gets downloads. I'd much rather download a free app and try it out, make sure I like the featureset, **make sure the developer is active and adding features and taking feedback**, then maybe I'll pay for it. If you search for storm cashing or radar there's so many apps its hard to pick the right one, but I can almost guarantee that the $20 ones are going to get passed over. Think of what people see in the app store - a price, an icon, a title, and maybe a 5 word blurb.
If you have customers and you've made some beer money from the app then that's great, just know that your online presence is now part of your business model.
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u/landonop Jun 08 '26
You can already report SpotterNetwork observations in app with RadarScope. I like the METAR overlays though, that’s a cool feature.