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Addicted to the wind, then and now

How it all got started

Sometime the late 90s, while participating in sailing championships (and windsurfing for relaxing during our off-days), we noticed that some professionals were using paging devices for their weather forecasts to get an edge over their competition. As almost noone back at home in Germany knew about this technology, we figured that we could not only exploit the opportunity, but also improve on it. So we put our heads down, got to work and came up with an SMS-based weather notification service.

Fun fact:

We were “mobile first” before
it was cool

Windfinder started with wind forecasts and reports via SMS. The website you’re looking at now was just a necessary by-product of the service at that time!

What has happened
so far

1999
Windfinder is founded by Edgar Widmann, Joe Schanz, Morten Rohlfes and Oliver König in Kiel, Germany, originally as an SMS-based forecasting serivce. You could say we’re a mobile-first company!
First Windfinder mobile website
We're launching our first mobile website (do you still remember WAP?)
2000
Spot forecasts introduced
Forecasts for specific spots introduced on our website.
2005
High resolution superforecast introduced
Introducing our very own high-resolution Superforecast! With 1-hour increments to boot.
2008
Windfinder App for iPhone
Not our first venture into mobile, but our biggest to date: Windfinder on iPhone!
2009
Windfinder App for Android
Tapping into an even bigger market, we're proudly introducing our Android app
2010
Windpreviews and responsive layout for mobile browsers
Windfinder gets a complete responsive design overhaul. Also, wind previews are introduced for every forecast spot.
2015
State of the art animated wind forecast maps
Finally, spots and forecast maps are happy together again: with our animated wind forecast maps!
2017
Get notified when wind and waves are right with our wind alerts
Never miss a windy day again! Wind alerts are introduced as part of a new subscription package.
2019
Backup and sync your Windfinder data
We introduce the Windfinder account - your settings and favorites will always be in sync across our website and our apps!
2020
And on and on and on...

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