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lanewinfield 2 hours ago [-]
Nice site. Likely very few people will care this much, but with a couple of very easy changes you would make this feel a LOT less vibe coded.
The giveaways:
* Instrument Sans (your logo)
* Highlighted period in your logo
* Highlighted italicized text in your header text (also in Instrument Sans)
* Short punchy AI-written sentences. Just merge that into one sentence! ("Enter any place on Earth to see every satellite that passed over it in the last week and the pictures they took there.")
* The flashing orange square in the upper right (every single vibe coded site has a circular or square version of the LIVE icon)
And then, just one more reason to switch from Instrument Sans: the massive kerning gap between "W" and "atched" in the logotype.
I'm being picky, of course. Nice job!
QuantumNomad_ 6 minutes ago [-]
> Highlighted period in your logo
When the page is first loading and the logo is shown in the middle of the screen, the period is pulsating. I think the intention is that the colored period is to evoke the look of a glowing red LED light from a camera that is recording. It fits with the name “watched”.
Now whether it looks better putting it as a period at the end of the word in the logo like that, instead of as a solid circle ahead of the word, is perhaps debatable.
xboxnolifes 2 minutes ago [-]
Maybe. Might just be an unfortunate coincidence that claude loves to put a pulsating circle on every website it makes.
adonovan 4 hours ago [-]
Beautifully done, at so many levels: the pincushion view of just how much stuff is up there; the rendering of the orbit of each satellite; the ground track of its aperture; the time series of its passes. So many data sources seamlessly integrated. Even if Claude wrote every line of code, knowing what to ask for is quite a feat.
Amazing.
iharhajster 24 minutes ago [-]
From an user standpoint it's nice and works well. Nevertheless, using a boredom is not an aliby to use vibe coding only. Still, I like it. What times are we living in?
HoldOnAMinute 12 hours ago [-]
I don't say this lightly: This may be the best combination of style and substance I have ever seen.
Loughla 11 hours ago [-]
Seriously though. I actually enjoyed using this. Good job to OP even if it's AI.
post-it 10 hours ago [-]
I think this is a great counterexample to AI sites that suck. It's not the Claudisms and the borders-and-pills that make them suck, because this has all that but is fantastic.
DANmode 6 hours ago [-]
Correct.
If someone puts a second-take, or a twentieth, it doesn’t matter what tools are used…
Human verification of human resonance.
That’s always the defining feature.
a585gupt 12 hours ago [-]
thanks! stoked to hear it!
dyauspitr 12 hours ago [-]
This is almost certainly Claude but I agree with both style and substance on this post.
petterroea 42 minutes ago [-]
probably one of the more tasteful pieces of slop I've seen on HN. Actually nice to use
sixtyj 14 hours ago [-]
I have seen a lot of sites with satellites’ overviews… I work in geospatial.
This site is really good one as you can see exact image taken by a satellite.
Well done.
a585gupt 14 hours ago [-]
thanks a lot!!
award_ 11 hours ago [-]
This is not only a very cool idea, but also fantastic execution! Great work and very neat!
a585gupt 11 hours ago [-]
thanks a lot!
a012 2 hours ago [-]
This is what I need: I like to see the latest developments in my area, but other web interfaces are hard to use. The only thing I wish for is the higher resolutions which I’d like to pay for with reasonable price
wnissen 13 hours ago [-]
This is great for planning backpacking trips. I have been using Copernicus but you have a lot more and it's much easier to access. Very nice!
a585gupt 13 hours ago [-]
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tarpump 10 hours ago [-]
Really cool, and beautiful UX.
For data sources, it would be cool to add Sentinel-1 since SAR sees through clouds, plus the Umbra and Capella open data archives for some high-res passes.
a585gupt 10 hours ago [-]
Thanks for the sources, will look into them!
jttnr 13 hours ago [-]
That looks really nice. I especially like the view showing the satellite flying overhead and the line marking the scanned area.
mxuribe 12 hours ago [-]
Yeah, that was so cool; like something right out of a call sci-fi movie or show!
a585gupt 13 hours ago [-]
thanks!!
atoav 46 minutes ago [-]
I love the idea. However the UI is a lot of bad choices made by LLMs. One thing I particularly dislike also when I work with LLMs is that they tend to make extremely redundant ad sometimes downright lazy UI choices:
- use centerdot to divide information where other means would be more readable
- many different fonts and shades for each bit of information, that *looks* ok but does not really relate well to that information
- redundancy (did I tell you it was clouded in 3 different places on the page?)
Essentially it feels like you asked a graphic designer to make a cool looking interface for a movie, that doesn't need to be too functional.
nico 13 hours ago [-]
This is very cool, and a bit creepy too, but mostly cool
Really liked the UX, even on a small phone screen it was easy to use. I enjoyed the big typing cursor, it was a unique surprise (almost 100% of text form inputs have either a very small vertical line cursor, or nothing at all - the big cursor feels refreshing)
a585gupt 12 hours ago [-]
thanks, glad to hear it!
bradknowles 9 hours ago [-]
Trying to type in the location field is almost impossible. There is something way off in the way the block cursor reacts to character spacing compared to the text in that field.
lol8675309 10 hours ago [-]
Super broken at the moment - or I'm impatient
Eridanus2 10 hours ago [-]
The relevant launch video trailer on your X page is really well produced. How did you go about constructing it?
creeble 11 hours ago [-]
Um, wow. Amazing UI.
This photo of the SF Bay this morning is a great representation of the fog that settles in over the area:
Can you get high res images, or are they typically not made public?
Very cool tool
a585gupt 12 hours ago [-]
for most places in the world ~10m/px is the best public image res, some lower (ex. rural areas) and some higher, am working on sourcing higher res for the areas where it's available tho
2hjaito 2 hours ago [-]
wow good job
bketelsen 12 hours ago [-]
Great user interface - animations are such a nice touch.
a585gupt 12 hours ago [-]
thanks!!
Zeetah 12 hours ago [-]
Love the fly overs, and the interface. Just beautiful.
a585gupt 12 hours ago [-]
thanks so much!
zahirbmirza 11 hours ago [-]
oooh. so fun.
I imagine, that there is someone with access to this sort of thing, with live imagery from any satellite they click on, in 8k.
a585gupt 11 hours ago [-]
yeah def some generals who use stuff that mogs this
jfsebastian 12 hours ago [-]
Pretty damn cool and super smooth. Thanks op!
a585gupt 12 hours ago [-]
thanks!!
animal_spirits 10 hours ago [-]
Welldone! very fun to play with
gizajob 12 hours ago [-]
Awesome page. Thanks for building.
a585gupt 12 hours ago [-]
thanks a lot!
metalman 3 hours ago [-]
executes perfectly on my hincty android phone running a stripped down browser, everything is fast, search is educational, as in who knew there are so many closely named places, and quickly confirmed that a number of my spots of interest are ,yes, very often clouded over.
the contrast between this and the adver-servailence web is stark, stark to the point of making me wonder if the only counter to the deluge of slop is to make an app that filters and finds basic info and displays it like 2012, everything is still there, but the insane efforts to convert every single web event into a sale makes doing any online research or planning more trouble than it's worth
edit: thanks for the work
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a585gupt 13 hours ago [-]
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dingaling 9 hours ago [-]
> type in any place and it finds every satellite that passed over it
_Most_ satellites. However, nothing associated with the NRO is in the public TLE catalog.
anonymous908213 10 hours ago [-]
People who prompt an LLM to generate without proper capitalization in order to deceive more people into thinking the text is genuine deserve a special place in hell. Always with the inauthentic feedback CTA, too. This should be killed off HN for flagrantly violating the rules against LLM-generated text, and yet everyone upvotes it.
dang 6 hours ago [-]
Can you please make your substantive points without swipes and fulmination, as the guidelines ask (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)? It's quite a bummer to check in on a thread and see an aggressive attack sitting at the top, sucking all the oxygen out of what was otherwise a curious and fun discussion.
People are upvoting this submission because it's obviously a cool project. Yes, we ask commenters and submitters to hand-write the text they post to HN, and yes, Show HNs with genai writeups mostly aren't that interesting. Occasionally, however, one is cool, fun, and creative. HN is better off with these, even though few of us want to read generated text.
I actually emailed the submitter this morning, asking them to replace that text with something handwritten. We do that all the time, trying to salvage cool projects from getting flagged (either by the software or by users). In this case I never heard back—presumably the email didn't get through.
I decided that the text wasn't so bad and moved it to the top and re-upped the post anyway. Perhaps that was a mistake—but if I hadn't, this post would probably never have gotten attention. Given how enthusiastic the community response has been (and no, it is not a voting ring), that would have been a loss for the site.
Society is in a complicated process of figuring out the best ways to use AI. It's not clear what the conventions will end up being. Many people have many takes. Some of them break HN's rules—but often they haven't the foggiest idea there even is such a rule.
How about we don't assume deceptive intentions or seek to send others to hell during what is obviously an entirely-in-flux situation which will probably be going on for years?
The nonsensical "I brute force checked it" paragraph is 100% Claude. Nobody writes like that, and no human ever includes this level of irrelevant reassuring detail.
zamadatix 6 hours ago [-]
To "deceive more people"? Take off the rage goggles and consider other alternatives like "they normally type like this. so when they had the LLM edit it that's how it remained", "because they normally type like this, its in the memory that's how 1st person text should be generated", or even just "because that's how they type, that's why they prompted it that way" before accusing blatant 1 mm deep attempts at deception as the driver.
But yes, the rule about LLM generated text should at least be abided by and preferably enforced regardless if the intent was malicious.
moecables 9 hours ago [-]
can't believe this is a prompt someone would pass in, my last check if someone was human was their lack of proper grammar
The giveaways:
* Instrument Sans (your logo)
* Highlighted period in your logo
* Highlighted italicized text in your header text (also in Instrument Sans)
* Short punchy AI-written sentences. Just merge that into one sentence! ("Enter any place on Earth to see every satellite that passed over it in the last week and the pictures they took there.")
* The flashing orange square in the upper right (every single vibe coded site has a circular or square version of the LIVE icon)
And then, just one more reason to switch from Instrument Sans: the massive kerning gap between "W" and "atched" in the logotype.
I'm being picky, of course. Nice job!
When the page is first loading and the logo is shown in the middle of the screen, the period is pulsating. I think the intention is that the colored period is to evoke the look of a glowing red LED light from a camera that is recording. It fits with the name “watched”.
Now whether it looks better putting it as a period at the end of the word in the logo like that, instead of as a solid circle ahead of the word, is perhaps debatable.
Amazing.
If someone puts a second-take, or a twentieth, it doesn’t matter what tools are used…
Human verification of human resonance.
That’s always the defining feature.
This site is really good one as you can see exact image taken by a satellite.
Well done.
For data sources, it would be cool to add Sentinel-1 since SAR sees through clouds, plus the Umbra and Capella open data archives for some high-res passes.
Really liked the UX, even on a small phone screen it was easy to use. I enjoyed the big typing cursor, it was a unique surprise (almost 100% of text form inputs have either a very small vertical line cursor, or nothing at all - the big cursor feels refreshing)
This photo of the SF Bay this morning is a great representation of the fog that settles in over the area:
https://www.watched.earth/s/3zg2u78u
Very cool tool
I imagine, that there is someone with access to this sort of thing, with live imagery from any satellite they click on, in 8k.
edit: thanks for the work
_Most_ satellites. However, nothing associated with the NRO is in the public TLE catalog.
People are upvoting this submission because it's obviously a cool project. Yes, we ask commenters and submitters to hand-write the text they post to HN, and yes, Show HNs with genai writeups mostly aren't that interesting. Occasionally, however, one is cool, fun, and creative. HN is better off with these, even though few of us want to read generated text.
I actually emailed the submitter this morning, asking them to replace that text with something handwritten. We do that all the time, trying to salvage cool projects from getting flagged (either by the software or by users). In this case I never heard back—presumably the email didn't get through.
I decided that the text wasn't so bad and moved it to the top and re-upped the post anyway. Perhaps that was a mistake—but if I hadn't, this post would probably never have gotten attention. Given how enthusiastic the community response has been (and no, it is not a voting ring), that would have been a loss for the site.
Society is in a complicated process of figuring out the best ways to use AI. It's not clear what the conventions will end up being. Many people have many takes. Some of them break HN's rules—but often they haven't the foggiest idea there even is such a rule.
How about we don't assume deceptive intentions or seek to send others to hell during what is obviously an entirely-in-flux situation which will probably be going on for years?
Edit: please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50434775 as well because you're breaking the site guidelines in many places at the moment, and that is not cool.
But yes, the rule about LLM generated text should at least be abided by and preferably enforced regardless if the intent was malicious.