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Changelog.

What we’ve shipped and what’s next. Honest.

API live — /events/verify + 37K NOAA hail events

Shipped Sep 17, 2026

• api.hail-path.com/v1/events/verify serves address-level hail verification, no key required.
• 37,087 US hail events indexed from NOAA Storm Events, 2022–present. Refreshed weekly.
• Try-it-live widget on the landing page runs against the real API.
• Geocoding via US Census (free, US-only); Mapbox upgrade planned.

Storefront live

Shipped Sep 10, 2026

• hail-path.com through CloudFront + S3, HTTPS everywhere, IPv6, TLS 1.2+.
• Waitlist backend on a same-origin Lambda + DynamoDB.
• Every deploy verified end-to-end by headless Chrome; screenshot as an artifact.

Next up

In progress Now

• API keys + per-tier metering, so paying beta users can move off the public endpoint.
• /events/search — full listing for an address/date window.
• Mapbox address geocoding with a DynamoDB cache (upgrade from Census).
• /events/{id} — full detail for a single event.

After MVP

Planned

• Wind and tornado events (same NOAA source).
• NEXRAD radar-derived hail swaths for storms the ground reports miss.
• Batch endpoint for portfolios (thousands of addresses per call).
• Webhook notifications for events near watched addresses.

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