SwellSlots – Grid Based Surf Forecast App with a Street Fighter 2 UI
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I discovered surfing last year in my early 40's its been a journey and a half and more fun than taking up golf at my age.SwellSlots squeezes swell height, period, wind speed/direction, and tide state into a color-coded weekly grid. One glance tells you when conditions are 'good' for the next few days.I wanted it to look completely different to what was out there (UI wise), as most of the forecast apps looks very clinical and cold.Some technical details:- SvelteKit + TailwindCSS 4, deployed on Hetzner (LOVE their cloud-console-ux! So simple)- 2,000+ surf spots worldwide (sourced via a separate AI-assisted pipeline I call "Surf Scout" — got ~80% accuracy, rest is manual curation)- The spot dat
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