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Mikel Steffen

Tinyclouds - An adorable new weather app for iPhone and iPad

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Tinyclouds generates a Beautiful new scene from the current weather conditions and the time of day. Tinyclouds uses the Dark Sky weather service which makes for a Super Accurate forecast.

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Mikel Steffen
Maker
Hello all! I’m happy to release Tinyclouds to the world. Tinyclouds is a weather app with a unique and fun style. The idea for Tinyclouds came from a longtime love of low poly/pixel/iso art. I started playing with the idea over a year ago. I have a wife and four kids so I was only able to work on it here and there. Turns out raising kids and building a product is a slow, frustrating journey. I wouldn’t change it for anything! 😍👱‍♀️👧👦👧👶 Tinyclouds is pretty basic right now, but I think there are a lot of interesting future paths it could take. Thank you!
Jake Crump
@mikel_io This is really cool! I'm also a huge fan of low polly/pixel art so you've definitely got my attention with the art style. If time wasn't a factor, what kind of features would you like to add in the future?
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@jakecrump Hi Jake! One of the big features I would like to add is different scenes. Right now it shows one simple generic town. I think you could have scenes of different types of places, specific cities, funny situations, maybe some current events, etc... I think a weather app like this needs to be always changing and put a smile on your face each day. That's my vision! I also would like to improve the weather details. Radar, alerts, details, etc... I believe you can have a weather app that is fun and interesting, while still accurate and useful. Thanks for the question Jake!
David Lowe
@mikel_io Great work Mikel. It's always nice to hear about entrepreneurs with a family who still create time to realize their dreams. I like the way you have used the SimCity style graphics which gives people a sense of nostalgia and familiarity. Flappy Bird was a big hit and that used similar design. My feedback would be that when the clouds move over, they block the view but I suppose that you are trying to show the weather. Have you considered changing the angle so you are looking up from the ground to see the clouds?
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@davidjlowe Thanks David! I will have to give the "view being blocked" problem some thought, thanks for the feedback! Yep, I spent half of my childhood staring at Sim City (Sim City 2000 for me 😁)
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@fredrivett Thanks Fred!
Brandon Bayer
Cool idea! Can you make it free today only for Product Hunters? Or send promo codes?
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@beedesignllc Absolutely, DM me on Twitter for a promo code.
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@izreiff Your promo code has been delivered. Enjoy!
Alex Lee
@mikel_io Looks like an awesome alternative weather app! Promo still available?
Philip Imperato
@beedesignllc Lol, promo code to a .99 app?? am I missing something?
Justin Anyanwu

Love the concept. Hope to see more features added to it.

I'd go nuts if the environment was a render of a popular city in my location.

Pros:

Cheerful design

Cons:

Needs more features and contextual UI events.

Ryan Hoover
If the Monument Valley team made a weather app. Nice work, @mikel_io.
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@rrhoover Thanks Ryan!
Andre Sion

This app would looks great on Android Phones, but I do love the design!

Pros:

Beatiful design

Cons:

Android support

Sam McAllister
Top Product
Ignore anyone saying otherwise, it looks beautiful. Nice job mate!
Bilal Karim
This is pretty cool. Congrats on the release! Is the weather information only available for US cities?
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@beekay__ Should work globally!
Stephen Silber
This is great, congrats on a fresh new take on what a weather app looks like! Mapbox + Unity have some really cool data that could potentially let you render cities in a semi-accurate way depending on how the current low poly art is rendered!
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@stephensilber Interesting, I'll have to take a look!
Dun
Love it!
Melissa
Honestly, at first glance I thought “😏 oh no another weather app”, but the video in the App Store really brought it to life! Looks really cool. If you could include tiny people walking around to show how we should dress for the weather, I think that would be an awesome and super helpful add.
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@melissa_inc Thanks Melissa! I would love to add tiny people :)
🕹️ Ray Angel
Pulled the trigger and bought this app because the art style is great and I love the possibilities as to where it could go in the future.
Sandra Carden
Thanks for making this app, Mikel. The only thing about it that I don't care for is that it indicates SNOW again today. It's late April, for goodness sake. (It is accurate, though.)
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@sandracarden Ha! I have the same problem where I am :)
G G
I think Apple will start banning weather apps, they litter the app store with out any new functionality.
Владлена Белошицкая
Cool design. Is it real cities?
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@rvlada Thanks! Not at this time, I would love to do things like that, maybe some day!
Refiloe Digoamaye
Would love to give this a spin if promo codes are still available.
bbinder
I'd totally buy if the dark sky forecasts were worth the apps they were printed on in my area. Just this past weekend it said we'd get 13 inches of snow. Your app looks super-cool! Really nice job 🙂
A.Fairiz
As a sucker for isometric pixel stuff, I bought this without thinking. It's just gorgeous. I discovered a bug though. After changing the temperature unit from Fahrenheit to Celsius, the text under 'This Week' still states the temperature in Fahrenheit. Hope it can be fixed soon @mikel_io
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@cleavatron Thanks! Yep, someone else mentioned that bug, I will try to get that fixed.
Gino
@mikel_io Great looking app. Tried DM-ing you through twitter for the PH promo code but it says that your account can t be DM-ed. Anyway, again congratulations!
Mikel Steffen
Maker
@ginostoian Sorry about that, feel free to shoot me an email. hello@tinyclouds.co
Christopher Lee
Gorgeous!