Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site(brolly.sh)
52 pointsby jsax3 hours ago7 comments
  • speerer44 minutes ago
    Love it. This reminds me of wttr.in, but with the benefit of interactivity and that it works much better on mobile. I also happen to often use terminals in a narrower aspect, so wttr.in doesn't work perfectly for me. It'd be very cool if a curl call to your site rendered a terminal text view!
    • jsax40 minutes ago
      Great suggestion, thank you. I’ll definitely keep that in mind as an improvement. There’s been some other feedback that it’d be good if there was a ‘true’ plain text only mode, and this ties in well.
  • firasd41 minutes ago
    Very interesting. The past few days' trend is so common in small talk and general weather discourse ("it was warmer last week") but underrated in weather apps. It's helpful that Open-Meteo provides that data

    This output is incidentally perfectly context engineered for LLMs too; I pasted the Delhi page contents into Arena .ai and asked "what's the gist" and qwen3.6-plus said (among other things) " A hot, humid day with a slight chance of afternoon showers." and gemini-3.1-pro-preview said "Mostly clear, but hot and very humid. While the actual high is 34°C, it will feel like 42°C in the afternoon."

  • 1bpp7 minutes ago
    Is there real plaintext without CSS?
  • kachnuv_ocasekan hour ago
    How do you turn on the text-only mode? I've tried Accept: text/plain but I always get HTML.
  • devindotcoman hour ago
    This is cool and I appreciate how compact it is. I'd love to have this as a regular load on my desktop. My only note would be that the precipitation graph feels unnecessarily bulky - wouldn't it work with the same type of horizontal graph seen for the ones below it? I know precipitation demands somewhat more precision and immediacy, but you could also do a variable graph - left half next hour, right half next 12 hours or something.
    • jsaxan hour ago
      Thanks for the feedback!

      I agree, it’s definitely something to work on as it takes up a considerable amount of vertical space.

      I found the precipitation chart challenging as you need to present both the forecasted precipitation, and the potential likelihood of the precipitation occurring. Something I’ve considered is using a horizontal graph with different shades of grey through black in each bar to represent the probability, but it would somewhat reduce accessibility.

  • 8ig839 minutes ago
    Looks great. One thing that initially tripped me up, I searched "Raleigh, NC" and got no place found. "Raleigh" worked.
    • jsax27 minutes ago
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  • popalchemistan hour ago
    DIG IT. This is how the web used to feel.