Brolly’s compact weather page wins HN, then gets asked to become a real text service (brolly.sh)
The site’s appeal is not a new forecast model; it is information design. Readers praised the compact layout and historical-temperature context, while pointing out that a minimal web interface is not automatically a text interface for scripts and terminals.
The requests were concrete: render plain text for curl, make narrow layouts work, reduce refresh delay, and give precipitation the same compact visual language as the rest of the forecast.
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