February 4, 2012
We’re Lazy, We Don’t Want to Wait for the Weather to Load
Weather Notifier Get push notifications with the current temp, forecast, and chance of rain for any city in the US. For example, set a daily alert for 8:00am Chicago and wake up to the weather! You never have to open the app again. It even looks good in Apple’s new iOS5 notification center:
Sick of Ugly Digital Clocks? Let’s Get Creative.
Design O’Clock Spice up your desk, nightstand, or kitchen with a series of beautifully designed clocks, inspired by famous artists and our local sailing club. You can also submit ideas for your own creative clocks!
While these are both customized for the iPhone and iPod Touch, it also works on your iPad (remember, there’s no native weather app so get notified there too
Blasting Off on an Urban Airship
Weather Notifier relies heavily on one very important, yet often overlooked, piece of technology: push notifications.
We’ve relied heavily on our friends at Urban Airship, a platform that allows us to leverage their pre-built systems for push notifications, which are extremely scalable. And the best part is it’s free until we start sending over 1 million notifications a month!
Man, we hate things that save us time, don’t fail, and grow as our demand grows. Just like how Apple always boots up so fast and never crashes. We just hate that.
The best part? They contacted us to see if we were having any issues, if they could help in any way, and if they could help market our apps. Ummm, let me think…ok, sure.
So What’s Next? We’re Going Bananas for Stocks
We loved our service so much with Urban Airship we’ve decided to double down on the marriage between our technology and theirs. Coming soon is the sister app to Weather Notifier, called Stock Notifier. I think you can figure out where this is headed…
You know we’ve got mad love for the 80s and Bananarama (it really is a cruel summer), so next up after that? Let’s get crazy: Bananatime…
Evolyte: apps to save time or make time fly.