CatchFlights: Plane Spotter
Catch the real aircraft flying over you
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A real-world aircraft collecting game: a radar shows the aircraft flying near you, and catching them builds a collection of aircraft types, registrations, airlines, airports and routes with XP, levels, streaks, curated sets and a spotting logbook.
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PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 22%)
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Travel
- Maps
- Games
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Partial The game UI, collection mechanics, and logbook are vibe-codeable, but the radar depends on live aircraft position feeds and the collection data needs aircraft, airline, and route databases that are licensed or costly.
What it would actually take: Build a mobile or web client with a map radar, backed by an ADS-B or OpenSky-style live feed and a server that tracks flights. The hard part is obtaining reliable real-time flight data plus accurate registration, type, and route databases, which requires data licensing and some backend scaling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 139 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 140 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- Underplane · ph · 2026-10-10 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Wingman · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Airside · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Inbounder Pro: Flight Tracking (macOS) · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Live Flight Tracker Map · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Lufthaven: Flight Tracker · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- TailSpotter · ph · 2026-10-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Aerograde · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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