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https://www.rainviewer.com/

Has been mostly good, where DarkSky never really worked in Europe.


Strange comment. As it was originally mostly ECMWF and a few other EU centric models that supported near term precip better than US models, it seemed better in EU to me. It got worse after it took off in US though, I'd agree. Meanwhile climacell worked better in US.

Consider checking out windy.app to compare models easily for one or a mix of several that work best where you are:

https://windy.app/support/windy-app-weather-forecast-models....

I'd moved from DarkSky to this years back, thanks to frequent travel to weird weather areas where I needed locally accurate microclimate handling.


TIL Climacell rebranded to Tomorrow.io

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.climacell.c...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1443325509

edit: what a horrible app, can't delete unwanted cards from Feed and 14 days forecast show tempratures only for tomorrow with no data shown for other days plus let's ignore the fact it's iOS design just ported on Android


Windy is great as well and I have been using that as well for forecasting, but one thing that’s missing compared to the Rainviewer/DarkSky seems to be the “real time” alerts. Thats what I believe DarkSky never supported outside US/UK - doppler radar or whatnot based notifications that seemed to be its main selling point. Apple Weather doesn’t support next hour precipitation notifications either outside UK/Ireland and US: > Next-hour precipitation forecasts and precipitation notifications are available for Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.


Few of my friends have been building Tact for a while now and it's an honest first push into the space with a native apps leveraging iCloud for most of behind the scenes tech.

Jaanus, one of the founders of Tact also wrote a longer piece of what Tact is and is not — https://jaanus.com/tact-public-beta/


In many cases crypto airdrops get delivered to active governance participants and this tool seems to help not miss any potential ways of participations.


Wire has teams functionality now as well.

https://wire.com/en/


Would you also have anything available in Europe?



Thanks!


Nice. We have built a tool for similar needs - https://sundial.teleport.org

Few examples on how it could be embedded into your public team pages as well:

https://teleport.org/about-us/ https://about.gitlab.com/team/



Yes, in tech it's pretty safe to take English as the lingua franca here.

Connections - we do indeed have Ryanair and easyJet but not that many destinations. Tallinn Airport has a good list[1] of what's available directly.

Salaries - we at Teleport (with deep Skype roots as well) just launched a salary comparison tool[2] this week, hope it helps to get an overview of salaries but also costs.

[1] http://www.tallinn-airport.ee/en/flight-info/destinations/ [2] https://teleport.org/salaries/


> Yes, in tech it's pretty safe to take English as the lingua franca here.

Another thing, that was not mentioned in the article, is that the government of Estonia seems to be doing a better job of managing the country than the governments of most other European countries. Estonia seems to have relatively little bureaucracy and relatively low taxes.

For example, I currently live in Norway. If I wanted to start a new company, it seems that it would be better for me to move to Estonia and start it there, rather than do it here in Norway. I wonder how feasible that would be to do, though, without me speaking Estonian? Other than talking to tech people, can you live in Estonia and get by with only English?


Thanks for the links, what's the Visa policy?


There is website called Work in Estonia[1],

I guess there is more specific information for different backgrounds.

[1] http://www.workinestonia.com/coming-to-estonia/


Thanks


Would love to get an invite too. I have my email address in my profile, but just in case adding it here too - joonathan -at- fiji.ee


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