RainBot didn't start as an app. It started as a simple SMS alert system I built for myself and a few friends — a little script that would text us when severe weather was rolling toward our towns. No flashy interface, no app store, just a phone buzzing in your pocket when something big was on the way.
Over time, the asks kept growing. People wanted to see the storm, not just hear about it. They wanted radar. They wanted to know when it would arrive. They wanted to know if their kid's soccer game was going to get cancelled. So I rebuilt it as a real app — one I'd actually want to use myself.
Today, RainBot is designed to scale with you. If you just want to know whether to grab an umbrella, the dashboard tells you in plain English. If you're a chaser tracking a supercell across three counties, the radar gives you multi-station velocity, storm path prediction, hail markers, and lightning — the same data the pros are looking at.
I work on RainBot in the evenings, on weekends, and during lunch breaks. Every feature you see was built because I (or someone using the app) actually needed it. There's no investor pushing a subscription model. No ad network deciding which storms get featured. Just a developer who loves weather, building tools for people who feel the same way.