SkySift
India-focused aviation intelligence — live flight tracking, price discovery, AI route insights.
60s
Refresh interval
6
Containers
7 days
Insight window
4
Background jobs
Screenshots coming soon
01 / The problem
Flight trackers show you dots on a map. They don't tell you whether a route is normally this busy, which airline dominates it, or when the quiet hours are.
02 / The approach
Pairs a 60-second OpenSky polling loop with proactive background enrichment — route and metadata workers populate data for every visible flight automatically, not just ones a user clicks — then a daily Claude job turns 7 days of accumulated history into a narrative per route.
03 / The catch
Insights need history to mean anything — a route's AI summary is only trustworthy after a few days of accumulated flight data, so the product is intentionally quiet on day one.
Real-time aviation intelligence platform built for the Indian market. Pulls live flight data from OpenSky Network, processes it with FastAPI + PostgreSQL + Redis, and visualises it on Mapbox GL maps. AI-powered route insights via Claude API. State managed with Zustand; deployed via Docker Compose on Coolify.
Highlights
Proactive enrichment — background workers, not click-triggered lookups
AI-generated route narratives (frequency, top airlines, peak hour) via Claude
India-focused bounding box, architected to extend globally
6-container Docker Compose stack: api, poller, cron, frontend, postgres, redis