@misc when I teach my UX class I ask students to add features like these to an exiting app. And they’re so used to shitty apps it’s hard for them to comprehend useful additions. It’s like pulling teeth to get them to pitch a useful new feature.
@misc@irenes On iOS there's an "Epic Ride Weather" app that will show you forecast weather for a route for a particular time, I think including relatively granular rain chances. The drawback with it is that apparently all weather API sources are paid, so it has to charge you to cover its back-end access costs. (I haven't played with it because of that so I'm not sure how readily you can vary the start times and so on.)
(A real failure of the app store incidentally is that there are a lot of hidden gem apps that languish in obscurity. It's really hard to find the thing that does the thing you want to do.)
This is kind of why I have a hunch that most applications of chatbots are a weak cop out solution for problems where the real solution would be good UX.
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