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franken_doppler_finder

Locate an audio or video recording from the Doppler curves of propeller aircraft, matched against archived ADS-B flight tracks. Rust, on frankenscipy and asupersync.

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GITHUB · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 36 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views

Niche: audio and video transcription tools · 195 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -27% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Search & retrieval
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • acoustics
  • ads-b
  • adsb
  • adsb-lol
  • aircraft
  • asupersync
  • +14 more

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Could you build this?

Partial The web and CLI shell is easy to vibe-code, but matching Doppler curves from audio or video against ADS-B tracks requires signal-processing and acoustics expertise and access to archived flight data.

What it would actually take: The stack would be Rust with a DSP library, an audio/video frequency-extraction pipeline, and a time-aligned matching engine against a historical ADS-B archive such as OpenSky. The hard parts are robust Doppler curve extraction from noisy recordings and a matching algorithm that scores candidate aircraft, which need signal-processing expertise and a large, licensed flight-track dataset.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 35 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #30 of 36 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 337 days after the earliest competitor.

  • DOPPLERGEIST · github · 2026-11-02 · 378 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • dopplertrack · github · 2026-11-03 · 192 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • aerodoppler · github · 2026-11-03 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • dopplerprint · github · 2026-11-03 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • flyover-scrub · github · 2026-11-08 · 322 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • fffinder · github · 2026-10-13 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • Free-Init · github · 2026-09-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • Velocity · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36

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