Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive
Details
- External ID
- 49407309
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive
- Website domain
- yantraai.app
- Launched
- Aug. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 69
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8884408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- space and geospatial visualization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- satellite tracker and ufo archive viewer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It combines a 3D Earth globe frontend (using libraries like Cesium or Three.js) fed by public satellite TLE data (CelesTrak) with a content/database hub of declassified text documents.
Discussion
18 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Custom satellite tracking tools (professional/military alternatives), Amateur astronomy platforms
Concerns raised: AI-generated design style is instantly recognizable and overused, Information overload with too many features and visual elements, Unclear value proposition despite breathless AI copy, Conspiracy-adjacent framing raises credibility concerns, Cloudflare captcha loop prevents viewing
Feature requests: Cleaner, less cluttered interface design, Better high-magnification tracking capabilities for moving objects
Competitors
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Attention rank: #22 of 243 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 284 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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