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#10 Labs · the weather store

A store that reads the forecast.

Barometer General is a store we made up. Its homepage changes with the weather where you are: the banner, the hero, the featured collection and the order of every product. Try each kind of weather below.

Checking the forecast…

Clear skies all day. Picnic gear is 10% off until sundown.

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Fair weather

Get outside today.

Clear skies, so the picnic blanket, the kite and the good sunglasses go up front.

Shop the outdoors

Featured collection

The fair weather edit

For a long lunch outside.

Clear today

Picnic blanket

Water-resistant base, folds into its own strap.

$68

Clear today

Mineral sunscreen SPF 50

No white cast, and gentle on reefs.

$22

Clear today

Polarized sunglasses

Cut the glare off water and snow.

$88

Clear today

Wide-brim sun hat

Packable linen that shades your neck.

$44

Everything else, sorted for today

Soft cooler bag

Fits 24 cans and the ice to go with them.

$58

Delta kite

Flies in a light breeze, thrills in a stiff one.

$40

Insulated bottle

Keeps ice frozen through a full day.

$34

Roll-top day bag

Waterproof, with a padded laptop sleeve.

$64

Packable rain shell

Seam-sealed, and it stuffs into its own pocket.

$128

Whisper desk fan

Three speeds, all quieter than your fridge.

$64

Cocoa thermos

Keeps drinks hot for twelve hours.

$30

Stormproof umbrella

A vented canopy that flexes in a gust instead of flipping.

$48

Tall rubber boots

Natural rubber, a cushioned footbed and real tread.

$72

Merino beanie

Warm, thin and never itchy.

$36

Down puffer jacket

Warm well below freezing, packs into its own pouch.

$220

Hand warmers, box of 10

Eight hours of heat per pair.

$14

Windproof scarf

Brushed wool over a windproof layer.

$52

Rechargeable lantern

For the night a storm takes the power out.

$42

Barometer General is a demo store by #10. Nothing here is for sale.

We guess your city from your time zone, so there's no location prompt. The one request that leaves your browser goes to Open-Meteo, a free weather service, with that city's coordinates.

For merchants

The same thing on a real Shopify store.

This demo runs in your browser. On a live store we'd build it into the theme, so it's fast, safe to edit and easy to switch off.

  1. Find the shopper's weather

    The store already knows roughly where a shopper is: the country from Shopify Markets, and on a headless storefront the city, read at the edge. A small app looks up that area's forecast and caches it for everyone nearby, so pages stay fast and nobody sees a location prompt.

  2. Tag products once

    Each product gets a weather metafield with a weight for rain, heat, snow, clear and wind. Your team sets it in the Shopify admin, and the store skips anything that's out of stock.

  3. Let the theme swap sections

    The announcement bar, the hero and the featured collection are ordinary theme sections with one block per kind of weather. The theme shows the matching block and sorts the collection by weight. If the forecast doesn't load, shoppers see your regular homepage.

  4. Measure before you keep it

    We run it as an A/B test against the static homepage and compare click-through and revenue per visitor, by weather. It stays only if it earns its place.

The same pattern works on WordPress with WooCommerce: product tags in place of metafields, a block per weather in place of theme sections.

Should your store watch the sky?

Tell us what you sell and where your customers are. We'll tell you honestly whether weather moves your sales enough to build this.

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