Flyby - Drone Planner
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Flyby is a native, privacy-first pre-flight companion for drone pilots of all skill levels. At the center of Flyby is the Fly Score, an explainable flight-readiness score that takes wind, rain, visibility, cloud cover, sunlight, geomagnetic conditions, the aircraft, and pilot profile into account. Flyby explains and directly shows how the score is being impacted at any one moment. That's not all that Flyby has to offer! Flyby also has flight planning, logging, maps, mini-games, and so much more!
PH · launched Sep 8, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 1 view
Niche: dispatch and route optimization software · 64 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -64% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Drones
- Weather
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Could you build this?
Partial The client app and scoring algorithm are straightforward, but it requires integration with real-time aviation weather models, airspace restriction data, and geomagnetic activity feeds.
What it would actually take: Building a reliable drone safety app requires aggregating regulated aviation airspace feeds (FAA B4UFLY/LAANC or regional equivalents), specialized meteorological data (micro-level winds aloft, K-index geomagnetic space weather from NOAA), and drone performance profiles. The stack would combine geospatial processing (PostGIS) with real-time external telemetry feeds and strict fallback guarantees for safety compliance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 91 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 92 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 201 days after the earliest competitor.
- Drone Weather Forecast · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- FlyNest - Calm Flight Buddy · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Drone Forecast — Mobile Assist · ph · 2026-10-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PermitToFly — Flight Safety_UAS · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- FlyDrones · github · 2026-09-15 · 197 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- SightFlight · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Wingmates · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- FlightShield® · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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