AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to War.direct
Built this over a weekend as a public service when the US-Israel-Iran conflict broke out. Non-commercial, no ads, no paywall. What it does: - 25+ live TV channels (Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Reuters, etc.) - Battlespace map with verified strike markers (source-linked) - Live flight radar via adsb.lol - Naval vessel tracking (curated OSINT positions) - AI-curated conflict timeline (GPT-4o extracts events from 10 RSS feeds) - Reddit OSINT dispatches from r/worldnews, r/geopolitics - Emergency helplines for 12 countries - Timezone switcher (IST, Iran, Israel, Dubai, GMT, EST)
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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IRWatch▲2Live OSINT dashboard tracking the Iran-Israel conflict
May 2026 · irwatch.org · its alternatives →
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Track every war on Earth. Live
Apr 2026 · worldconflictlive.com · its alternatives →
- 4IH
I built this because I was interested in the data. Didn't fully get it to what I wanted, but thought I'd share it nonetheless. Maybe someone has better data sources they could share! Turns out live ship tracking APIs are expensive so I manually just copied the json from https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:57.4/cente... I'll probably have an ai agent do the same thing on some cron interval, if this gets any fanfare. To actually know if the port is open without live ship tracking I found…
Apr 2026 · ishormuzopenyet.com · its alternatives →
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TL;DR▲199I love Hacker News but I rarely have time to read full articles / comments, so I built a simple site to summarize the top posts & comments to make it easier to get a big picture. A few implementation details: - It pulls the top stories from the HN Firebase API (`/v0/topstories`) - Filters stories with >200 points - Uses Claude Sonnet for post + comment summaries - Tries to capture the sentiment of the comments (still working on improving this) - Refreshes both posts + summaries hourly It has already helped me I hope it helps you! Please let me know if you have any feedback --…
2025 · tl-dr.tv · its alternatives →
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I work on R00M 101, a Reddit-based OSINT profiler. While building it, I realized most open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools are scattered across GitHub, outdated blog posts, or random Discords. So I put together a public-facing directory of 100+ OSINT tools used by analysts, journalists, and security folks, free, filterable, and categorized by risk, platform, and use case. The idea was to make something useful and no-friction. Built with static HTML + SQL backend + a lot of caffeine. Would love feedback on how to improve the UX or tool curation. If anyone wants to contribute tools or help…
2025 · r00m101.com · its alternatives →
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Real-time global conflict monitoring on one live map
May 2026 · frontwatch.org · its alternatives →
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Monitor the situation to your own liking. Polymarket, Subway Surfers, Bluesky integration, Flight trackers. Runs all requests client side and doesn't store information. Open to feedback.
Jan 2026 · sr.ericli.tech · its alternatives →
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Get Accurate War New. LIVE. With 3D Map View. That's it.
Mar 2026 · warsignal.live · its alternatives →
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Live interactive map of the Iran-Israel-US war: verified strikes, casualties, airspace and Strait of Hormuz status, updated continuously. Day 195.
Feb 2026 · iranwarlive.com · its alternatives →
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Free Real-Time Global Intel Dashboard w/ 190+ Data Feeds
Mar 2026 · sitdeck.com · its alternatives →
- 12IC
2022 · isrussiawinningthewar.com · its alternatives →
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The intelligence dashboard governments dont want you to have
Mar 2026 · warmonitor.app · its alternatives →
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A "disinformation dashboard" tracking Russian propaganda
2017 · its alternatives →
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Sup HN, So a couple of months ago I posted my OSINT app ShadowBroker here and got WAY more attention than I expected. Some of the feedback was brutal, but honestly, a lot of it was right, and it made the project a lot better. And sure, I had a blast tracking billionaire jets and yachts or discovering GPS jamming in Ukraine was a thrill, and so was watching CCTV feeds from London, along with ships, satellites, conflict zones, etc., but eventually it dawned on me…where does my OSINT dashboard actually go from there? What good is all of the telemetry if people cannot communicate with each other…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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hey guys, wanted to show one of my side projects i just made public. the idea is basically another osint tool for pentesters and bug bounty hunters. it watches certificate transparency logs and checks newly-seen domains for exposed stuff like .env files, open .git dirs, config files, db dumps and so on, and puts whatever it finds into a searchable db. you just search a domain (or part of one) and see what's exposed. it's read-only and free. one thing i've been thinking about adding is a way to register for certain keywords and get notified when something new shows up for that search. would…
Jul 2026 · search.cerast-intelligence.com · its alternatives →
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Real-time AI-powered war map with verified OSINT
Aug 2026 · intelmapper.com · its alternatives →
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Real time Israel-Hamas war tracker with live news
2023 · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I wanted to see if I could build something like DataFa.st myself, so I made MochiAnalytics. I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out. It’s got all the bells and whistles a small team or solo founder would need to track campaigns and to see which channel is driving revenue. It’s a cheaper analytics tool for side projects, indie hackers, and small apps. I honestly wish I could make it free, but it still needs servers, a database, and a backend to keep event ingestion running 24/7, so there are real costs behind it. I’m still working on it and will keep adding more features…
Jul 2026 · mochianalytics.com · its alternatives →
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WarWatch▲5Real-time military flight and global conflict intelligence
Mar 2026 · war-watch.com · its alternatives →
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Crucix▲2Your own intelligence terminal. 29 OSINT feeds. Runs local.
May 2026 · crucix.live · its alternatives →
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