Storm Chaser ☈ob

This is sad for weather enthusiasts who have been around awhile. I’m in the shower but let me put this out there. I can give some insight and answer some rumors. Many of you were not around to know, but back in the day (5-7 years ago) you had RO or RadarScope. That was about it. PYKL3 was out the door already. RadarOmega was the only one to offer you useable maps with radar. The single pixel wide blue Interstates on RadarScope left much to be desired. The problem is, the parent company is highly toxic. The Board of Directors is governed by people who don’t know weather. The CTO at SDS is truly a genuine expert with weather data, but one genius in a sea of incompetence does not always prevail. I have seen the constant road blocks that are encountered every time business must be done or features must change. You have one guy there that sees the vision, the rest do not and are so incredibly arrogant that they’ll never see it, even with the company being auctioned. It’s a shame and a true lesson for all of us in business: Be full of yourself and above the competitors, but never above the core users. RadarOmega put themselves above the core users with a “it is what it is, tough cookies” mentality that alienated the users. And me. About 5 years ago I teamed up with RadarOmega and was handed a ton of liquid capital to build cool stuff. It worked. I built an audience and a brand, not to mention a great team. I am grateful for that. My radar app? It exists because all of our data and operations were supposed to be part of RadarOmega , but we weren’t taken seriously. Silly driving in circles by chasers who have 6 months driving experience was more valuable to them. So, I said screw this and made my own. That apparently pissed them off. Well, I handed them all the data and how to implement the data about 2 dozen times and sat thru countless “explain what you do here” meetings. Clearly, zero value for a group of people out here trying to provide open weather data. I wish they would have just said that, but whatever, we’re in a better place now. Fast forward to this year, the relationship ended and I kept quiet to not make things awkward for my friends who still worked there. Now it clearly doesn’t matter. A new rumor has popped up last night that my business is going under. Not true, I’m not connected to them at all. I do apologize to my audience for encouraging the support of something that was dying. It was NOT dying before. It was thriving. When your CEO is a doorknob and does things behind the backs of team members, this is what you get. I do offer our entire app for free with basically all RadarOmega features. You can move over to that. I want to build Recon to be what the users want. Send feedback. We can make this greater than ever. All those “they aren’t paying max!! Poor max!” posts before… garbage. That was a contract dispute. This final swan song is different and I encourage all business owners to learn from it. Dear @RadarOmega , I was your biggest fan and supporter. I am the only one who stayed and supported with everything I had when everyone else shit all over your doorstep. You can’t argue that. Good luck guys.