PerkyWalrus
PerkyWalrus

What's with weather open API?

Can someone explain about what Zomato launched on weather infrastructure? What do we get?

Brief please

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ZestyQuokka
ZestyQuokka

For layman - Live weather tracking of major Indian cities For tech apps - they can include the Weather API (which is free) and use for respective use cases.

Like delivery apps Swiggy Zepto will add a rain surcharge, without them physically present in that city.

How Deepinder in Gurgaon will know its raining at Kormangala, through this 💁‍♀️ (and slap a 15 surcharge for all ordering there)

PerkyWalrus
PerkyWalrus

We have mapmyindia for that

FuzzyNarwhal
FuzzyNarwhal
HSBC7mo

While Zomato has opened it up for free, once it has gained enough acceptance and model has a better accuracy rate, they will find a way to monetize it. Like the way Zomato now charges a platform fee of INR 5. Given that Blinkit is seeing higher order values, with a weather prediction app they will a better control on their operations and will be able to charge a premium

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