Can I vibe code Flighty?
Flight tracker that knows about delays before the airline.
Flighty's magic is the data underneath: real-time positions, gate changes, and delay predictions from aviation feeds like FlightAware and ADS-B networks — commercial APIs that are paid, rate-limited, and priced for businesses, not weekend projects. The app often knows about your delay before the airline admits it; you can't scrape your way to that. A personal trip tracker that stores your flights, shows them on a map, and checks a free-tier status API is a fine sitting's work — just don't expect it to beat the gate agent.
Skip cloning Flighty — the live aviation feeds are paid and rate-limited — and build a personal flight log instead. Let me add flights by airline and number; store route, times, seat, and confirmation code in Postgres. Pull status, terminal, and gate from a free-tier API like AeroDataBox or AviationStack on a cron, respecting its rate limits, and email me when status changes. Show a trip view with a countdown and airport details, plus a lifetime stats page: total flights, miles, airports visited, drawn on an SVG world map. Next.js on Vercel; degrade gracefully to my manually entered data when the API quota runs out.
A personal flight log and trip dashboard: upcoming flights with terminal, gate, and status from a free-tier flight API, plus a lifetime map of everywhere you've flown.
- Delay alerts that regularly beat the airline's own notifications
- Live aircraft tracking, inbound-plane logic, and delay forecasting
- Push notifications and Live Activities polished into your lock screen
- Data depth no free API tier will ever give you
Frequent flyers pay because during a cancellation, knowing first is worth more than the subscription — and the data feeds behind that are not sold at hobby prices.
A prompt is the first move, not the whole game. Course 01 teaches you to take a prompt like this one to a shipped, working app — reviewing, correcting, and steering the agent the whole way.
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