A weather app for skiers and snowboarders to find the mountain near them with the best conditions.

Overview

ShredCast is one of my personal passion projects. It’s a mobile app geared skiers and snowboarders looking to find the best mountain for their preferences on any given day. By accumulating and synthesizing mountain conditions and weather data, ShredCast shows you the mountain that’s best for you.

Challenges

One of my bigger challenges with ShredCast is synthesizing the various points of mountain data and mapping them to a weighted scale for each user. Through multiple discussions with software engineers and users, I worked to develop profiles that adequately capture the user’s desires and return an accurate mountain.

The second biggest challenge was finding an API that didn’t break the bank...