A better front door for Australian weather.

In November 2025, the Bureau of Meteorology shipped a new website. It cost $96.5 million. Users couldn't find the radar during Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina. They reverted to the legacy site a week later, then quietly began patching the new one in public.

betterbom.com.au is what the country could have had for less. Same data — BOM is still the authoritative source — but presented like someone actually uses the thing. Hyperlocal, fast, ad-free, mobile- first, designed for the dad checking tomorrow's pickup, the surfer checking the swell, and the fire captain checking the wind shift.

What we believe

Radar belongs on the front door. It is the single most-loved feature of every weather product ever shipped in Australia. You shouldn't have to click three times to find it.

The numbers must be cited. Every temperature, every rainfall prediction, every gust — labelled with the source and the time it was issued. If two models disagree, we show you both.

Severe weather doesn't pay for clicks. Warnings are rendered verbatim, with no edits, no ads alongside them, no email gate. If BOM cancels a warning, we tell you within sixty seconds.

We will not sell your location. Ever. The privacy policy says it because it's true.

Who's behind this

One full-stack engineer in Australia, paired with Claude Code, an AI coding assistant from Anthropic. The whole thing was built in a handful of focused sessions. The plan is open at /legal/data-sources and the public commit log will follow shortly.

What's next

A paid API for developers who need AU-native weather without the WillyWeather price tag. Native apps for iOS and Android. Marine, aviation, hydrology, and fire-weather views. A bunch of small things that will make the site feel a little more alive every week.

If you want to be told when each ships, drop your email at /contact.