Hi Product Hunt Community! My name is Ming and I am a co-founder of UVLens. Growing up in New Zealand, we frequently get roasted in the sun (not thanks to our location on the globe and hole in the ozone above us). The beautiful beaches and mountains don't help either!
We decided to try solve this problem in 2013 with a wearable UV sensor that tracks your exposure and warns you when you've had enough. After many iterations and pivots, we developed the technology further and figured out a way to provide accurate forecasts of UV levels to anyone in the world, without the need to purchase your own sensor. This is possible with the help of forecasts from satellite data and ground sensors measuring real time UV. UVLens is currently in the process of being integrated with a network of 5000 sensors all over the world, so you can get live UV data local to you (some countries already live).
Our mission is to provide people with accurate and practical UV information to safely enjoy the sun! No one should ever have to ever fear the sun :)
We'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback or ideas! I am also happy to answer any questions you may have.
Oh boy, this is lovely! I got sunburnt in Scotland in a cloudy day, but never again! Awesome :)
Ps. I really liked the app, just got it installed and selected my skin type (II), so I'll certainly use it in weekends and such. Is it free always by the way @techno246 ? :-)
@victormanriquey Thanks! :D as a Kiwi, I have been burnt far too many times here in New Zealand! So that's why we decided to do something about. And like you said, clouds can be very deceptive... as well as heat, since you can't actually feel UV (heat is from infrared)
@victormanriquey Gladto hear you like the app! What's free now will always be free! I am also a huge disbeliever in banner ads... So there won't be any ads any time soon either haha
@_alexfi As far as I know, I don't think there are any good publicly available APIs for UV forecasting. I've only found them bundled with other weather data, and they would only give you a single estimate for the entire day, which isn't very helpful. To that end, we decided to build our own, using irradiance, ozone, cloud, and aerosol forecasts. During clear days, the forecasts over the day are usually to 0.1 of a UV index to the measured values.
If there is interest, we can open up our APIs the other developers :) We have built it as a REST service.
@_alexfi Of course! Flick me an email at ming.cheuk@spark64.com and I'll let you know when we open it up. Might even be able to get you a private API key in the mean time to experiment with.
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