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Feb 11, 2025
launch$10/Year Early Access Pricing
Launched early access Pro tier at $10/year for the first 1,000 members. Founding member pricing dropped to $99 lifetime. Open stats page goes live.
Feb 10, 2025
featurePro Paywall & Stripe Integration
Full payment infrastructure with Stripe checkout, webhook handling, and subscription management. Free users get 4-day forecasts, Pro unlocks the full 7-day view.
Feb 10, 2025
featureMy Spots — Follow Your Favorites
Follow your favorite surf spots and see current conditions at a glance from your account dashboard.
Feb 7, 2025
improvementLanding Page Data Source Fix
Updated landing page to accurately reflect our data sources: NOAA buoys, ECMWF, and Open-Meteo models. Removed incorrect Surfline reference.
Feb 6, 2025
featureAdmin Dashboard for Pipeline Health
Built internal monitoring to track forecast freshness, buoy data health, AI summary generation, and overall system status across all 76 spots.
Feb 3, 2025
seoSSR Overhaul for Google Indexing
Migrated all spot pages from client-side to server-side rendering. Google was seeing empty shells — now it sees full forecasts, ratings, and conditions. Added ISR caching and fixed sitemap timestamps.
Jan 29, 2025
dataRating Algorithm v10
Tenth iteration of the Howzit rating system. More conservative scoring, location-specific tuning, proper swell period weighting, and wind factor calibration. Epic ratings now actually mean epic.
Jan 2025
featureMulti-Model Forecast Blending
Blending forecasts from Open-Meteo, WaveWatch III, and ECMWF with confidence scoring based on model agreement. Three models, one honest rating.
Dec 2024
data76 East Coast Spots Live
Full coverage from Maine to Florida — 76 surf spots across 14 states with forecasts, buoy data, tides, and AI-generated daily summaries.
Nov 2024
launchHowzit Goes Live
First public version of Howzit. Built because Surfline felt like a black box and surfers deserve to know where the numbers come from.
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