Stowaway goes viral: sit in the window seat of any plane flying over your house right now
jdjohnson · x · 2026-09-03
Stowaway, a no-download, no-account website, is trending on Hacker News (441 points). It detects your location, lists every plane and satellite overhead at this moment, and lets you "stow away" into a window seat rendered in real time — real terrain, real weather, and this minute's actual light.
Creator jheising says he built it from a childhood habit of watching planes cross the evening sky and wondering what the world looked like from up there. The site also links to a 24/7 YouTube window-seat stream.
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