Summary
Matt Wolfe interviews Belaval Sadu, creator of God’s Eye View, a free open-source browser-based satellite tracking and situational-awareness tool that briefly became GitHub’s top trending project. The tool aggregates real-time public data on satellites, planes, vessels, traffic, and public CCTV feeds onto an interactive 3D globe, styled after the command-center dashboards seen in spy movies.
Sadu explains how the project was originally built earlier this year using Gemini 3.1 for spatial reasoning and Opus for full-stack development, coordinated through an AI coding harness, and describes how the tool has since grown to include a voice interface powered by ChatGPT’s realtime API. He walks through use cases ranging from content creation and journalism to personal situational awareness, while addressing the tool’s legal and ethical boundaries — notably a hard rule against using it to track specific individuals.
The conversation includes a live demo, showing flight tracking with real registration numbers and operator data, military activity clusters, and Austin, Texas traffic and CCTV overlays refreshed every ten minutes for privacy. Viewers get an inside look at how a solo builder combined multiple AI models and public APIs to create a surprisingly powerful open-source intelligence tool, along with a discussion of its cost, accessibility, and safeguards.
📺 Source: Matt Wolfe · Published September 16, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
