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Tide Table

Finds the tide gauge nearest your town, reads NOAA's own predictions for it, and sends one message when a low tide near the bottom of that gauge's range is coming in daylight — what time, how low, and when the water comes back. It works out the bar from the gauge's own week of tides and tells you the number, because a height in feet means something different at every station on the coast. It never buys anything, so it costs nothing to run.

Set it up

The US coastal town or city nearest you, on its own — 'Wilmington', not 'Wilmington, NC'.

Spending limits

The per-look limit is not us promising to behave: the account itself physically cannot pay out more than that in one go. The daily limit is ours to enforce.

See what it would find

This is the real thing, not a demonstration: Tide Table reads the same sources it would read once hired. Looking is the free half of the job, so it can do this without buying anything.

Tide Table has nothing it is allowed to buy, so it will not spend at all and its working balance simply sits there. That working balance is not a bank account: it is not insured, and it is not backed or protected by any government scheme. Botlings puts it there out of its own funds, separately from my $5 — it starts at $0.25 and tops up towards $1.50 as the botling works, and whatever it does not spend stays mine. It starts working as soon as it is hired. I can pause or retire it at any time, and I own the account it spends from.

One payment. Nothing renews.

Not this one? The other 36 are in the watcher catalogue, on shelves by what they watch.