Given the impact the Sun ☀️ has on all our lives, a tool to predict its availability is surprisingly missing – Shadowmap is here to change that. It visualizes sunlight and solar shadows based on 3D data in a worldwide interactive maps app.
If you’re looking for use cases, in gardening, every type of plant has an “hours of direct sunlight” requirement (easy to plug into a database and it never needs updated) and a seasonal growing zone (determined by location) so not only could you tell someone that the North side of the house gets 7 hours of sunlight, you could even tack on a suggestion that because the N side is a full sun zone 7 they can grow sunflowers and Italian jasmine. Your monetization could be affiliate links to location and even plant specific fertilizers, soil testing kits, etc or you could have a pro level for landscapers (or both)
That was just what I wanted to use it for, anyway. Hehe
Good luck! This is so cool.
@kikischirr Haha sweet Kiki! Thanks for this idea and we're happy you found such a great use case – for you, and even more that you share it. We had urban gardening in mind but didn't narrow it down to explicit hours in the Sun depending on the plant! Love it! ♥️
Totally unsure about the practical use for my daily life but totally mesmerised by playing around with it. Instant flashback to my first experiences with Google Street View - kind of in love! ❤️
@carlo_thissen Playing is crucial 😀, glad to read how it's mesmerizing you, thank you 🙏 Some new users we had the chance to look over their shoulders, got really inspired after playing with it a bit and they came up with use cases pretty fast!
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Enormously elaborated and usable app. Amazing that it works worldwide. it can be helpful for a lot of businesses and private purposes, plus it has great potential for future demands, e.g. climate related urban planning ...
@tanja_bachh Thank you for the great feedback and seeing the potential, Tanja 🙏 And yes, we really want to build something fundamental here. The solid base for a manifold of use and business cases!
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I find this idea so fresh and an absolute out of the box! Thank you for listing everything down in so much detail. If a product can handle a problem, nothing like it! I appreciate how open the team is to listening to users and incorporating all of it to the product. I absolutely love the UI too!
@aryaaagarwal Wow 🤩 Thank you Arya, what lovely feedback! I really had joy to write this text above … it's been so much work and such a long time, it's quite fun to look back on everything that lead to Shadowmap 🥰 Also thx for the UI love! It'll become even better 🤫
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Nice! Very cool. I can see myself using this when renting my next apartment or room for example when I would like to know what the light situation is like :) Great work.
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