Vibe coding a weather app

[darngooddesign]

Spent the weekend using Claude to code an app. Started out as a web app which was much easier to concept together, and then converted it to a classic Mac app with RealBasic 5. Claude was really helpful in troubleshooting all the reasons different parts didn’t work, besides my complete lack of experience that is. 😁

I’m still working on the graphics, but I’m pretty happy so far.

Pixelated & Sunny

• Hour view
• Week view
• Favoriting a city which it does by saving a text file in the app folder
• Dark mode

Here it is on my Duo 2300:


Splash screen

Hourly forecast

Daily forecast with city favorited


Dark mode

 

[TheShortTimer]

This is neat! 😀

Does it provide the weather for all cities or specifically those in the U.S. at the moment?

 

[darngooddesign]

This is neat! 😀

Does it provide the weather for all cities or specifically those in the U.S. at the moment?

Right now it’s pulling weather from a list of 60 major us cities based on their lon and lat. Even still there is a 1 or 2 second lag on my Duo reading a list of 60 that I didn’t feel in sheepshaver where I built it. Thats one of the things I want to improve in it.

To deal with SSL, which System 8/9 cant really deal with I have a php hosted that reads an https api and provides an http link my Powerbook can deal with. There was a lot of setup and bug fixing in the php because it reads and serves up the weather data in the hourly/daily slots the app uses.

 

[darngooddesign]

This is neat! 😀

Does it provide the weather for all cities or specifically those in the U.S. at the moment?

My latest version now has a search field which searches globally.




Also, one great side effect of my app’s lookup php is that I can use it to make the Dashboard Widget work.

 

[TheShortTimer]

This gets better and better. 🙂

Do you plan to share it with the community at some point? I'd love the chance to be able to play around with it.

 

[kencu]

that weather girl has such a 1980s/90s computer graphics vibe...