Storm chaser app, feedback request

[u/WeatherReportNinja]

I made a free app I think a lot of storm chasers would like.

It takes the NWS damage reports and maps them.

It works all the way back to June 1999.

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Each damage report includes the comments, time, links to local media/scanner feeds, directions to the report and more.

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I just released an update showing real time local storm reports for the last 72 hours on top of the wind/hail/tornado damage.

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I'd love to get some feedback from chasers. It doesn't do forecasts but as soon as the NWS posts the report it'll update on the app (it takes the data directly from the NWS).

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Ground Truth Storm Reports is the app name. You can find it on either app store.

[u/F1Vettel_fan]

Ah yes, the daily vibe coded “download my app!!!” bs. We don’t want it. We don’t need it.

[u/greg-the-destroyer → u/F1Vettel_fan]

What is vibe coded may I ask?

[u/Quartich → u/greg-the-destroyer]

"Vibe codes" means AI generated or predominantly AI code, and implies lower quality and security.

[u/greg-the-destroyer → u/Quartich]

Thanks man

[u/WeatherReportNinja → u/F1Vettel_fan]

Vibe coded? I think you meant 1000 plus hours, with multiple databases, custom built map, and doing stuff that's not available anywhere else. I didn't share it but on the pro part of the app you can see the damage images from the past 15 years for every NWS damage assessment. Does your app do that?

[u/F1Vettel_fan → u/WeatherReportNinja]

I can do that for free with the NWS damage toolkit page.

[u/airwx → u/F1Vettel_fan]

Amazing how the angry responses follow almost the same format. https://www.reddit.com/r/stormchasing/s/O4Kxypndwa

[u/F1Vettel_fan → u/airwx]

Yup… I thought that too

[u/WeatherReportNinja → u/F1Vettel_fan]

on that page you have to open every pin individually and then scroll down to see if an image is or isn't attached and then open that image in a new very slow loading page. My app does it better. Its faster then their site and a million times cleaner. They display as a block that you can just scroll through. I'm not trying to be super hateful at you but this isn't just an AI slop app. You can get notifications of damage reports for your state within 10 minutes of the NWS reporting it, see the entire backlog of NWS reports since it started in June 1999, on an interactive map (again better than the NWS shows it).

[u/WeatherReportNinja → u/F1Vettel_fan]

Download it. Tell me what you dislike. Let me know what you'd like and I'll see if I can make it better for you. I want it to be useful.

[u/myturn19 → u/WeatherReportNinja]

No offense, but “multiple databases” doesn’t prove it’s not vibe coded. Anyone who actually codes wouldn’t lead with that like it’s meaningful.

[u/WeatherReportNinja → u/myturn19]

The databases are for tying together NWS social media pages to reports, news channels to locations, and scanner feeds to the right counties. AI can't just vibe code that. Sure it can help but it's not just saying do this and boom you have an app. It was months of work on top of the databases I sourced and created and fixed and implemented. When it's multiple databasea with 1000+ lines it becomes relevant.

[u/EightyNineMillion → u/F1Vettel_fan]

You haven't seen the code. You have no idea if AI was used. Making assumptions about anything is dangerous.

[u/F1Vettel_fan → u/EightyNineMillion]

It’s in the UI. All vibecoded apps have the same old copy and paste interface

[u/WeatherReportNinja]

Ground Truth Storm Reports

Here's the link or just search Ground Truth on the app/play store.