Overhead
the planes overhead, painted on an e-ink frame
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Hi HN,I've been fascinated by aviation for some time now. Inspired by Fugleramme, I wanted a framed print of a cluster of aircraft over my house or a busy airport. So I built Overhead. (Photos in the README)The hero photo shows planes departing and landing in Changi, Singapore.How it worksFlight data for a location is gathered from adsb.lol and adsb.fi as a fallback. (you can also point it to your own ADS-B receiver).The photo of the exact aircraft is gathered from planespotters.net and the photographer is credited on the page.The photo is then handed to an AI image gen service via fal.ai using your own key.It's then cut out and packed into a cluster on the page with packers adapted from Fugleramme.It costs about US$0.04 a painting but images are painted once and kept for the next time that aircraft is seen.You can also choose to only show photos.This widget is built on my open source, self-hosted e-ink platform, Tesserae. It's a one click install from the widget catalog.I'm looking for feedback and contributors.https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme https://github.com/dmellok/tesserae
HN · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 34%) · 0 views
Niche: geospatial and transport tracking platforms · 50 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The software is a flight-data pipeline: pull aircraft positions from public ADS-B feeds, render them to an image, and push that to a display. Each step uses off-the-shelf APIs and libraries, and the e-ink driver is a standard Raspberry Pi integration.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 31 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 32 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
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- CatchFlights: Plane Spotter · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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