Site & MVP feedback: Custom city reports with climate risk
Hi, I'm working on a data product to give people information about future climate damages. My elevator pitch / concept is "Carfax for deciding where to live: Everyday people should understand the hidden financial consequences of a city's economic outlook, with climate change forecasts."
Appreciate any reactions, and please request a free report, if you're interested! I'd be hugely grateful for any feedback: https://remoteworkcities.com.
Thank you!
Fun idea! There's definitely been a good amount of talk about climate migration, and my partner and I have also been wondering where a good place would be.
I requested a report. I had trouble with the city selector; essentially it would remain locked at one line of text, and when the first line was full I wouldn't be able to see what I was typing. The autocomplete was updating though.
I checked your sample report, and most of the things you claimed on your home page like climate change, health factors, economy, weren't obvious to me. Digging deeper, I can see how one could infer conclusions based on the data provided.
However I think you could make that more obvious. Raw data isn't easy to understand for most people. How about combining relevant data points into indicators, which could form a 1-10 grade? For instance for climate change, 1 would mean climate is predicted to wreak havoc, and 10 climate will be perfectly livable. You could also consider having a secondary score that shows the delta between now and n years from now.
You could also color code the numbers, red being bad, orange being average, green being good. Explain in simple terms how you got to those indicators. And make the raw data available somewhere for those who are curious.
I could see you developing a complement to walk scores for real estate, except your indicators would apply to whole cities instead of neighborhoods. Check their website to see how they make money (hint: data is available for free for consumers, paid for professionals): https://www.walkscore.com/
Thank you for these recommendations! Really appreciate it. I see your points about it not being simple and consumer-friendly.
My imaginary consumer may be more hands-on than the average person would actually be. Thanks for the Walkscore example as well, I'll definitely thoroughly check out their site, it seems like a great business model.
Thank you!