Orbitrail
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Details
- External ID
- 1270114
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Orbitrail
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7676775738228252
- Tags
- Productivity, Space
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Orbitrail watches the sky for you. Choose the aircraft types you care about, set a radius, and get alerted when something worth seeing comes close. Includes emergency squawk alerts, satellite and ISS passes, and optional phone notifications.
Enrichment
- Niche
- geospatial and space tracking visualizers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- weather and satellite tracking visualizer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a map UI and notification alerts is straightforward, but continuous geo-fencing against real-time global ADS-B flight feeds and satellite orbital propagation requires specialized stream processing.
What it would actually take: The platform requires ingesting massive real-time ADS-B telemetry streams (via providers like FlightAware or OpenSky Network) and TLE satellite orbital data (propagated using SGP4 algorithms). A real-time geospatial processing engine (such as Redis Geospatial or Apache Flink with PostGIS) must evaluate dynamic user-defined radii against thousands of active targets every second to trigger push notifications without excessive latency or infrastructure costs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 194 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #39 of 195 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- ISS Live Tracker · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- AstraScope — Explore. Plan. Observe. · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SkyFlight Tracker · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Airside · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- StarLeak · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Wingman · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Poppot · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Aerograde · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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