Original Summary

Over the past year, I've been building Halfstop, a field guide for photographers (and travelers). I come from a development-oriented background but had no experience with working with the Apple or Android developer community. Most of my work has been with client-facing products and services. But if you shoot on the road you know the routine. One app for sunrise and sunset. Another for the moon. A website for the Milky Way. A different one for aurora. Weather somewhere else entirely. And then a notes app, or a screenshot folder, or a pile of dropped pins in Google Maps where you sort of keep track of where you've been and where you still want to get to. I wanted all of it in one place. So that's what this is. Drop a pin anywhere and you get sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, golden hour and blue hour for that exact spot. Eclipse tracks and aurora forecasts. When the Milky Way core is up, how high it climbs, and whether the sky is going to be dark and clear enough for it to matter. Cloud cover, fog, snow and storm tracks over the ground you are actually driving toward. Underneath it I pulled in every free, reliable data source I could get my hands on. USGS topographic quads and aerials. Hillshade and contours. State level maps. Public land overlays so you know whose ground you are standing on. Drone ceilings and advisories. The web version is live and works well, including on a phone. Sign in and it syncs between browsers. You can start using it today at https://app.halfstop.app/ I'm waiting on my refreshed Apple Developer credentials, and once those land it goes into TestFlight for real testing. I'd like it out before peak fall foliage. Android port after that. I'd really like to hear what's missing. I built this for how I shoot, which means I've almost certainly overlooked how you shoot. Tear into it and please provide feedback.   submitted by   /u/shermancahal [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/22 04:09:02