[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":640},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-15074526":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":9,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":26,"sentiment":27,"stance_mix":28,"scored_comments":33,"aspects":34,"strip":43,"post_text":46,"what":47,"said":80,"maker_in_thread":239,"shape":252,"grid":255,"attempts":601,"same_week":602,"maker_shows":37,"maker_hidden":631,"reader_version":632,"card":633},"15074526","Champion Traveler","The best time to visit any city","title","Show HN: The best time to visit any city",null,"ignostic",1503422699,2017,395,118,36,2242,2,"legend","consumer_social","travel planning","web_app",[23,24,25,20],"best time to travel","travel weather","weather by city","mixed",-0.274,{"positive":29,"neutral":30,"mixed":31,"critical":32},9,35,8,34,86,{"idea":35,"execution":36,"design":39,"performance":42},{"positive":31,"critical":17},{"positive":37,"critical":38},1,24,{"positive":40,"critical":41},0,4,{"positive":40,"critical":41},[44,40,45,41,37,45,37,45,37,44,37,37,37,37,37,45,37,37,37,45,37,44,37,37,37,17,45,37,17,41,45,37,45,17,37,37,45,17,45,37],5,3,"I wanted to build a tool to help people decide when and where to travel. As I started building, I realized that \"when\" and \"where\" need separate treatment to be most useful. The map tool handles \"where\" best:\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Fchampiontraveler.com\u002Ftravel-weather-map\u002F\n\nClicking through each week would be frustrating for those who know where they want to travel but not when. For these people I built \"best time to travel\" pages using the same data.\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Fchampiontraveler.com\u002Fbest-time-to-travel\u002F\n\nMy hope is this site will help travelers plan.\n\nThis data is taken from the National and Atmospheric Admini",{"problem":48,"audience":54,"pricing":9,"motivation":58,"time_to_build":9,"stack":62,"openness":77,"stage":78,"team_size":79},{"value":49,"source":50,"evidence":51},"Helps people decide when and where to travel based on weather.","maker",[52],{"id":53},"post",{"value":55,"source":50,"evidence":56},"Travelers deciding when and where to go.",[57],{"id":53},{"value":59,"source":50,"evidence":60},"Build a tool to help people decide when and where to travel.",[61],{"id":53},[63,67,71],{"value":64,"source":50,"evidence":65},"SQL database",[66],{"id":53},{"value":68,"source":50,"evidence":69},"Tableau",[70],{"id":53},{"value":72,"source":50,"evidence":73},"WordPress",[74],{"id":75,"by":10,"text":76},"15074755","Thanks! I agree on the search functionality. Right now this is just a WordPress search, but it would probably be wise to use Google's location API to help find the right place or…","unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":81,"objections":106,"requests":161,"questions":199,"alternatives":212},[82,98],{"value":83,"source":84,"evidence":85},"Useful concept that people would reference and use","commenter",[86,90,94],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"15075130","andyjsantamaria","This is super interesting idea and something I'd reference a lot. The big question I have is what are your factors for deciding the best time to visit? I'd argue setting up the…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"15075486","kristianc","This is a really interesting idea - the kind of tool that you only realize that you've been waiting for when someone shows you it! As someone who likes to travel quite a bit,…",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"15075787","madman2890","I'm stoked you built this, as I've had the idea and desired the platform for a while. I do a ton of last minute travel and have semi-unlimited options so it's hard to filter down…",{"value":99,"source":84,"evidence":100},"Weather summaries and best-time pages are well done",[101,105],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"15075300","Eiriksmal","I love your weather summaries. Your formula nails it with this one: https:\u002F\u002Fchampiontraveler.com\u002Fdates\u002Fbest-time-to-visit-san-diego-ca-us\u002F Most weather summaries seem to miss…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},[107,123,146],{"value":108,"source":84,"evidence":109},"Weather alone ignores crowds, cost and other travel factors",[110,111,115,119],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"15074976","stinos","This is really neat! Only thoughts: it assumes one's definition of 'best' is 'best weather' and that in turn means it matches with what your algorithm decides is most pleasurable…",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"15075631","codingdave","Weather is just one small piece of people's thought process when planning a vacation. But this tool is clearly all about weather... Perhaps finding a new way to describe it other…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"15075969","tmaly","I like this idea a lot, but there is also on thing to consider, Crowds. The best weather also draws the biggest crowds. This drives up food and hotel prices. If you could somehow…",{"value":124,"source":84,"evidence":125},"Data errors in graphs and summaries (Portland, Sydney, Cuba, Barcelona, A Coruna)",[126,130,134,138,142],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"15075091","pkulak","This seems really off: https:\u002F\u002Fchampiontraveler.com\u002Fdates\u002Fbest-time-to-visit-portland-or-us\u002F It's says the daily highs in the summer are low 60s and that the driest months are in…",{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"15077070","jeromesalimao","On the 'Weather in Sydney' page: \"The warmest time of year is generally mid-January where highs are regularly around 61.9°F (16.6°C) with temperatures rarely dropping below…",{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"15076534","clishem","Something fishy is going on here: https:\u002F\u002Fchampiontraveler.com\u002Fdates\u002Fbest-time-to-visit-cuba\u002F https:\u002F\u002Fimgur.com\u002FYlM3zda.png But really great idea!",{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"15075986","Al-Khwarizmi","Hey, this is really useful! I'll bookmark it and probably use it. A few bugs\u002Fglitches, though: - The Celsius temperature graph for Barcelona (…",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"15078514","cakedoggie","So the best time to visit Sydney is almost the entire year, except for the last 2 weeks of January? > February 5th to January 14th…",{"value":147,"source":84,"evidence":148},"Poor mobile and UI design, and search quality",[149,153,157],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"15079208","ygra","It's a nice idea, for sure. I'm not sure I'd use it much since other considerations apart from weather also exist. A few things I've noticed: • The search could use some…",{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"15074599","sharkweek","This is great - I think the search functionality could be improved a bit (a lot of results following the one I was looking for that didn't seem related, but the right one did…",{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"15075581","otterpro","Nice website, as I had always been looking for such travel website like this. On the travel-weather-map site, I searched for \"San Francisco\" and the first result was Argentina,…",[162,167,179,187],{"value":163,"source":84,"evidence":164},"Add crowd and tourist volume data",[165,166],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},{"value":168,"source":84,"evidence":169},"Sitewide Celsius\u002FFahrenheit switch and metric units",[170,171,175],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"15076474","kristofferR","Great site, the UI\u002Fdesign isn't the best though. Improving that will make a huge difference. One of the first things I would do is to make Fahrenheit\u002FCelcius a sitewide setting,…",{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"15075604","combinationy","Would be nice to be able to select degrees celcius.",{"value":180,"source":84,"evidence":181},"Customisable preference sliders for weather factors",[182,186],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"15075561","mule76","Pretty cool job. It would be nice if the user had a few sliders to toggle (heat, humidity, rain, and crowds), rated say 0 to 10 (with 5 meaning don't care), to get around having…",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},{"value":188,"source":84,"evidence":189},"Better search with alternate place names and missing cities",[190,191,195],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},{"id":192,"by":193,"text":194},"15076716","zzleeper","Following the feedback from others, a few things seem odd (for Peru): - I tried it with Lima-Peru and it actually suggested a bad time to visit the city:…",{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"15075369","horsecaptin","No results found for Osaka :(",[200,208],{"value":201,"source":84,"evidence":202},"What factors and data drive the best-time scoring",[203,204],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},"15075957","fwx","This is very cool. Long shot but any chance you can blog about the algorithm used? Or open source the same?",{"value":209,"source":84,"evidence":210},"Whether the algorithm or code will be open sourced",[211],{"id":205,"by":206,"text":207},[213,221,228,235],{"value":214,"source":84,"evidence":215},"WeatherSpark",[216,220],{"id":217,"by":218,"text":219},"15075431","foota","Anyone here might be interested in https:\u002F\u002Fweatherspark.com\u002F",{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},{"value":222,"source":84,"evidence":223},"Weatherhopper",[224],{"id":225,"by":226,"text":227},"15079409","wjan","Cool! I've built similar tool somewhere around 2011. I travel a lot and wanted to have a tool that would help me plan my travels according to specific months. I use it on regular…",{"value":229,"source":84,"evidence":230},"Lonely Planet guides",[231],{"id":232,"by":233,"text":234},"15079526","Humphrey","Best time of year is subjective!! All Lonely Planet guide books solve this problems by explaining what each place is like at each time. Eg, for Yosemite, it describes how during…",{"value":236,"source":50,"evidence":237},"DecisionData best time to visit tool",[238],{"id":53},{"comments":240,"answered":241,"key":242},14,6,[243,246,249],{"id":244,"text":245},"15075215","> what are your factors for deciding the best time to visit? I used almost exclusively weather data. My scoring process is linked to near the date ranges I provide, so hopefully…",{"id":247,"text":248},"15076669","That's great! May I ask where you're getting your data?",{"id":250,"text":251},"15075059","Thank you! I am very glad others find the algorithm finding the \"best times\" to be accurate as well. 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