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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.

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