Weather Watching

Show HN: Weather Watching

Weather Watching is a business in show hn launch.

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I was walking around New York last month during some light rain and noticed about half the people had umbrellas open. When the rain picked up a few minutes later, that number jumped closer to 80%.It got me thinking it'd be cool to track this somehow, so I built a website! I am taking a sidewalk livestream, feeding it into a YOLO model for people tracking, then sending a frame of each detected person to Gemini 2.0 Flash, which returns structured JSON about each person's clothing and if they're holding an umbrella. I also had fun making the site look like a TV weather channel.I showed some friends this project and someone mentioned how the legendary Tasks xkcd comic (https://xkcd.com/1425) is

Weather Watching is positioned in show hn launch, a segment that rewards a clear, focused offering.

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Website: walzr.com/weather-watching