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FuseForecast

Weather-based outage prediction app using open-meteo data

Web app Rated 7 Oct 2026Dormant

Link
fuseforecast.vercel.app
Built by
Neptune - Archived

Bloat

74/500

Where it landed on the scale

Bloat
0
Float
300
Moat
400

Summary

FuseForecast is a lighthearted one-off web app, posted once in May 2024 and not touched since. The page is live, but there is no evidence of a business model, accounts, or real outage data behind the "prediction". It reads as a hobby or practice project.

Bloat · Not much here works or looks likely to last, yet.

Breakdown

Five measures, 100 points each. Open the receipts under any of them to see the posts and pages behind the points.

Viability

Is there a real problem, someone who would pay, and a market this builder can actually reach?

Power outages are a real local pain, but the app only maps rain to an outage guess, and the creator frames it as a joke ("age old mystery"). Nothing suggests anyone would pay or rely on it.

14/100

Rubric 0–20No clear problem or user. A toy, a practice clone, or a solution looking for a problem.

Receipts (2)

  1. Describes it as "predicting" outages from rain and calls it an age-old mystery, so the framing is playful and not a serious product.

    “FuseForecast An app I made that uses open-meteo to get weather data based on your location to "predict" potential outages due to rain. (the age old mystery). check it out: [•] Link to project: https://FuseForecast.vercel.app/ @PyrrhoOfElis”

    Post · @n3ptun3_labs · 1 May 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. No pricing, payments, or accounts were found on the live page.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · fuseforecast.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Moat

What stops someone copying it?

It is a thin layer over a free public weather API, and anyone could rebuild it in a weekend. There is no proprietary outage data, utility integration, or distribution.

6/100

Rubric 0–20A thin wrapper or a clone that anyone here could rebuild in a weekend.

Receipts (2)

  1. The only data source named is open-meteo, which is free and open to everyone.

    “FuseForecast An app I made that uses open-meteo to get weather data based on your location to "predict" potential outages due to rain. (the age old mystery). check it out: [•] Link to project: https://FuseForecast.vercel.app/ @PyrrhoOfElis”

    Post · @n3ptun3_labs · 1 May 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. The site has no accounts, docs, or other assets that would be hard to copy.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · fuseforecast.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Momentum

Did the updates keep coming?

Shipped once, on 2024-05-01, with no activity in the roughly 889 days since. There is no sustained shipping history.

0/100

  • Sustained shipping0/60

    Worked on across 0 days.

  • Consistency0/40

    Updates in 1 of 1 month.

  • Quiet

    No update for 889 days — scaled to 20%.

Receipts (1)

  1. Earliest post about it.

    “FuseForecast An app I made that uses open-meteo to get weather data based on your location to "predict" potential outages due to rain. (the age old mystery). check it out: [•] Link to project: https://FuseForecast.vercel.app/ @PyrrhoOfElis”

    Post · @n3ptun3_labs · 1 May 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Infrastructure

Does a real, working product exist?

A live, free-hosted page exists, but it is a thin front end over a public weather API, with no accounts, backend, or docs visible. It shows a demo-level product.

41/100

  • It's live20/20

    https://FuseForecast.vercel.app/ responded when checked.

  • HTTPS5/5

    Served over HTTPS.

  • Real product15/35

    A live page exists, but the dossier shows no evidence of functionality beyond a simple front end that reads weather data. The crawler captured no page text, so a working predictive feature can't be confirmed.

  • Own home0/10

    Only on a free subdomain or link-in-bio page.

  • Maintained0/15

    Last sign of shipping 2024-05-01.

  • Operations1/15

    It is a single Vercel-hosted page with no accounts, docs, API, status page, or second platform.

Receipts (4)

  1. https://FuseForecast.vercel.app/ responded when checked.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · fuseforecast.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  2. The page is live but returned no readable text and no accounts, docs, or other features.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · fuseforecast.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  3. The creator describes only a location-based weather lookup that "predicts" outages.

    “FuseForecast An app I made that uses open-meteo to get weather data based on your location to "predict" potential outages due to rain. (the age old mystery). check it out: [•] Link to project: https://FuseForecast.vercel.app/ @PyrrhoOfElis”

    Post · @n3ptun3_labs · 1 May 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. Facts show docs, accounts, status page, repo, and store links are all absent.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · fuseforecast.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Sustainability

Is it being set up to last?

It has no own domain, no payments, no pricing, no support contact, and no legal pages. Nothing signals a path to money or ongoing commitment, and the project appears to be a one-off experiment.

13/100

  • Distribution12/30

    A site on a free subdomain.

  • Payments0/15

    No payment provider found.

  • Pricing0/10

    No pricing found on the site.

  • Revenue0/5

    Nothing in the post or on the site points to paying customers or revenue.

  • Privacy policy0/7

    No privacy policy found.

  • Terms0/5

    No terms of service found.

  • Support0/8

    No support contact found.

  • Commitment1/20

    There is one post and no follow-up, roadmap, team, or dedicated channel, and the last activity was in May 2024.

Receipts (5)

  1. A site on a free subdomain.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · fuseforecast.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  2. The post doesn't mention customers, prices, or income.

    “FuseForecast An app I made that uses open-meteo to get weather data based on your location to "predict" potential outages due to rain. (the age old mystery). check it out: [•] Link to project: https://FuseForecast.vercel.app/ @PyrrhoOfElis”

    Post · @n3ptun3_labs · 1 May 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  3. No payment provider was detected.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · fuseforecast.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  4. It is a single announcement with no signs of continued work.

    “FuseForecast An app I made that uses open-meteo to get weather data based on your location to "predict" potential outages due to rain. (the age old mystery). check it out: [•] Link to project: https://FuseForecast.vercel.app/ @PyrrhoOfElis”

    Post · @n3ptun3_labs · 1 May 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  5. The page shows no community, roadmap, or project channel.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · fuseforecast.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)