Festialert
A push-notification companion for German regional festivals like Libori that tells attendees, stallholders and local businesses the second organisers pause, cancel or reopen the event because of weather or safety.
Visitors, parents and stallholders at large regional open-air festivals across NRW and beyond
- Live, official event-status feed pulled from city press accounts and radio stations (Hochstift, WDR, etc.) per festival
- Severe-weather radar overlay with the festival footprint so families can see which stage is about to clear out
- 'Find my nearest shelter' walking directions to covered halls, U-Bahn stations and open shops if the Kirmes goes down
- Stallholder mode with one-tap 'kitchen closed / open' toggle shared to the public map
The Libori 2026 disruption — fairground cleared 14:00–17:30 with families already inside — shows how fast weather can break a mid-sized regional event, yet the only alerts came via Instagram and one local radio station.
Libori 2026 disruption is real and widely reported (WDR, NW, Westfalen-Blatt), confirming the pain point, but regional open-air festivals are episodic events visited by a small fraction of NRW residents; existing KATWARN and NINA apps already push weather warnings to millions of Germans.Sorge vor Unwetter: Libori in Paderborn unterbrochen ↗Katwarn - Officially connected ↗
Crowded space: KATWARN, NINA, DWD WarnWetter already deliver weather/safety alerts; Attractionator, Woov and a service literally called 'Festival Alarm' already do festival-specific push notifications and schedules — leaving little differentiated whitespace for a regional-events companion.Festival Alarm: Your festival database ↗Your festival and event app - Woov ↗Festival Apps - Schedules & Maps | Attractionator ↗
Visitors use such an app a few days per year and expect free alerts (KATWARN/NINA set the free baseline); a B2B pivot to festival organisers is plausible but unproven, and no pricing or willingness-to-pay evidence surfaced for stallholders or regional organisers.Katwarn - Warning and Information System for the Public ↗Your festival and event app - Woov ↗
Climate-driven weather disruption of outdoor events is a structural, growing concern in Germany, giving the category multi-year relevance; however, seasonality and dependence on individual organiser adoption cap upside.Liveticker zu Libori 2026: Libori wegen Unwetter komplett unterbrochen ↗Katwarn, Nina, or Fema? Multi-method Study on Distribution, Use ↗
A push-notification app backed by an event/region database and an organiser dashboard is technically straightforward, and weather feeds from DWD/MoWaS are publicly integrable; the real work is curating the ~hundreds of NRW organisers and getting them to publish into the system.Germany | MeteoAlarm | Early Warnings for Europe ↗Warn-App NINA - BBK ↗