CabinLink
Flight map from cabin Wi-Fi
Details
- External ID
- 1163777
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- CabinLink
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- June 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 295
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6033653846153846
- Tags
- Weather, User Experience, Travel
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
CabinLink reads supported in-flight Wi-Fi manifests and turns them into a native flight dashboard. See route, current position, altitude, speed, ETA, aircraft details, and destination weather, with last-known updates when the cabin connection drops. No login, no ads, and no paid Wi-Fi pass required for supported manifests. Launches Jun 7, 2026 at 9 AM MST on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- flight tracking via cabin wifi
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and local caching are straightforward, but reverse-engineering and parsing the unauthenticated local portal APIs and telemetry endpoints across dozens of proprietary in-flight Wi-Fi hardware vendors is difficult.
What it would actually take: The frontend is a lightweight native or PWA dashboard (React Native or Swift) using MapLibre/Mapbox for offline vector tiles. The core challenge is network sniffing and maintaining an adapter catalog for captive portal telemetry streams across vendors (e.g., Gogo/Intelsat, Panasonic Avionics, Viasat, Thales, Anuvu), each exposing different undocumented JSON endpoints or internal socket protocols for live aircraft state (latitude, longitude, ground speed, altitude).
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 55 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 56 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 81 days after the earliest competitor.
- Will my flight have Starlink? · hn · 2026-03-18 · 276 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- RefundFlightWiFi · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Live Flight Tracker Map · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Choppy · ph · 2026-09-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Flight Routes · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- nonstopflightsfrom.com · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- AirplaneMode · hn · 2026-04-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Wingman · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.