# FediMeteo

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/fedimeteo/

7 people recommended FediMeteo in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 12 months, in 2 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

6 of the 7 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service”.

**Verdict:** A lightweight Fediverse weather service people admire for running without heavy infrastructure. One caveat: it needs some local knowledge to be useful.

Summary written by Claude from 9 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 8 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs without heavy infrastructure (2 comments in the sample): "let's just say it's refreshing to have things that don't endeavour to operate on hyperscale" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442559)) "Lovely to see someone building something that doesn't require Kubernetes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439043))
- Inspires people to build similar services (2 comments in the sample): "Awesome project! I’ve always dreamed of making my own weather service so this is a great inspiration." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437392)) "Great write-up and implementation of an exact thing I've started to build myself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438429))
- Seen as a cool, refreshing project (1 comment in the sample): "Such a cool project. Thanks for building it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438321))

## What people warn about

- Needs local knowledge to be useful (1 comment in the sample): "does require some local knowledge to get it at all useful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444046))

## Other weather apps people recommend

- [Apple Weather](https://hackerapproved.com/p/apple-weather/): 12 recommend, 6 mixed, 48 criticize
- [Yr](https://hackerapproved.com/p/yr-no/): 12 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize
- [wttr.in](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wttr-in/): 10 recommend, 1 mixed, 3 criticize
- [Acme Weather](https://hackerapproved.com/p/acme-weather/): 10 recommend, 7 mixed, 13 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "FediMeteo", https://hackerapproved.com/p/fedimeteo/ (7 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.