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It uses the (affordable) Dark Sky API to get the weather forecast at two antipodes and Google's Reverse Geocoding API to simply get the geographic name of a coordinate.
The project was live then but never received much traffic until it was posted on /r/InternetIsBeautiful yesterday.
Now I see I am being charged a little over $1,000 from Google for using their API.
I wish I kept a closer eye on the fact Google jacked up the price of their APIs since I released Antiweather two years ago.
Maybe someone can help me understand why it costs 50x more to simply get the name of a location (Google) than it does to get detailed weather conditions and forecast for any point on Earth (Dark Sky).
I don't feel much hope of finding a way around this surprise bill but I am posting here for any advice at all. Is there any chance at forgiveness for a recent college grad whose side project unintentionally went viral, anyone to contact?