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Yevgen Somochkin
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CTO ESSO.DEV
Building the Future of AI, Automation & Web3 | Full-stack & DevOps Architect | Scalable, Data-driven Web & Mobile Apps
Hamburg, Germany
A flight sim where the traffic is real
Open a browser tab and you are over the real Earth: real terrain, real photogrammetry where it exists, real weather for that city, real sunrise. The aircraft around you are not spawned. They are the ones actually in the air, decoded from ADS-B seconds ago. So are the ships below, from AIS.
Three things run at the same time, and each one feeds the next: you fly it, you collect the real aircraft you catch overhead, and the data itself comes from a feeder network we operate.
There is an older Skydex, a React Native "Pokédex for planes" I started in 2025 and put on ice. This is the rebuild: same idea, but the sky is a place you fly through rather than a list you scroll, and the data comes from a network we operate instead of someone's API quota.
Freestyle FPV drones and a gull, six-degree-of-freedom flight model, acro and angle modes, gamepad and RC transmitter support with a calibration wizard, and 19 hand-built race tracks with ghost replays and leaderboards. Also playable in VR on Quest through WebXR.
skydex.online/races →Every real aircraft you catch overhead becomes a card, with six rarity tiers, fifteen ranks, monthly seasons, achievements, an inbox that remembers why you got what you got. Types, airlines and manufacturers get their own canonical pages, so a catch turns into a permanent, indexable page about a real machine. Around 1,800 public URLs; the game speaks five languages.
skydex.online/aircraft-types →The aircraft data is ours: Skydex runs its own ADS-B aggregation network. Volunteers point a receiver at it, get a station page with uptime, range and the rarest aircraft they heard, and a badge in the game. It is non-exclusive by design, so you can keep feeding every other network at the same time.
feed.skydex.online/ →Multiplayer with voice on real airband frequencies over a WebRTC mesh, user-run radio stations with their own studio, a flying-spots map built from OpenStreetMap, and a self-hosted observability stack. The whole thing lives on one small VPS and deploys itself from master.
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