cloud-007/shamba-cast

# 🌾 Shamba Cast **Weather advisories for farmers — powered by the Weather-AI API.** > _Shamba_ is Swahili for "farm". Shamba Cast turns a raw weather forecast into the decisions a > smallholder farmer actually makes — when to plant, when to spray, when to harvest — and shows > how that advice reaches a feature phone over SMS/USSD, no internet required. 🔗 **Live demo:** 📦 **Repo:** --- ## Why this, and not just another weather dashboard Weather-AI isn't a generic weather API — it's a Nairobi-based platform whose mission is **last-mile agro-advisory for African smallholder farmers**, delivered to any phone (USSD `*384#`, SMS, feature phones included). In Kenya, ~98% of farmers own a phone and SMS is the *preferred* channel for agricultural advice. So Shamba Cast is built around that mission rather than around the API's mechanics: - It reframes the free-tier forecast as **farm decisions**, not just numbers. - It turns the forecast into a plain-language **briefing** a farmer can act on (Weather-AI's own AI narrative is a Pro-tier feature this would swap in). - It includes an in-browser **USSD + SMS simulator** that mirrors Weather-AI's flagship Scale-tier last-mile delivery — so you can see the whole product story end to end. Everything runs on the **free tier**. ## Features - **Forecast briefing** — a concise, plain-language summary generated locally from the free-tier forecast (Weather-AI's AI narrative is a Pro feature). - **Current + 7-day + hourly** forecast, with a °C/°F toggle. - **Growing Degree Days (GDD)** — heat-accumulation tracker (base 10 °C, maize) computed from the daily high/low, with a sparkline. - **Farm advisory engine** — derives planting / spraying / harvesting windows plus frost and heavy-rain alerts from the forecast, each with a plain-language "why". - **Last-mile delivery simulator** — a feature-phone `*384#` USSD flow and a ≤160-character SMS preview, generated from the same advisory data. - **Location** — preset Kenyan farming re …