Lukas Carelsen
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Airing

World 03 · AR-3 · Public beta

Mission Never miss what's on tonight.

Tracks your series and movies and tells you when they air, in your local time, and what's on tonight in your country. iOS and Android.

Expo · React Native · Convex · TMDB · TVmaze · Cloudflare Workers

TestFlight link coming soon

Uncharted · Plant a flag to put a satellite upFlag planted · Satellite up

Field log · AR-3

Placeholder story, for Lukas to rewrite in his own words:

Most trackers are libraries: lists of things you’ve watched. Airing is built around time. It tells you when the next episode lands in your local time, and what you can actually watch tonight in your country.

It started as a desktop Electron prototype. That proved two things: TMDB is the catalogue, and TVmaze has the exact broadcast times TMDB lacks. Then it was rebuilt from scratch as a mobile app.

Decisions

  • Schedule-first, not library-first. The home screen opens on “Tonight in ”: new episodes that stream where you are, locally made shows first, mixed with what’s in cinemas.
  • Android from day one. The closest competitor is iOS-only. Expo gets both from one codebase.
  • Two sources, joined. TMDB for details, images and where to stream; TVmaze for exact air times, linked through IMDb ids, with TMDB’s date as the fallback.
  • Your clock, not ours. 12- or 24-hour follows the phone by default, because people in the same country differ.
  • Fewer tabs. The app went down to three: Discover, Calendar, Library. “Up Next” was cut because it duplicated two other screens.
  • Shared links are fast. Share pages sit behind a Cloudflare Worker cache in front of the Convex backend.
Landing zone · AR-3

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  1. First touchdownLand the ship anywhere on the page
  2. Secret unlockedWin the landing game (press L)
  3. Meteor dodgerBeat Level 2, the meteorites
  4. RickrolledWin the prize for winning the mini-gameSecret achievement
  5. Double rickrolledWatch the real prize for beating Level 2Secret achievement
  6. Crash test dummyCrash the ship in the game
  7. Lost in spaceDrift off the bottom of the screen
  8. Knock knockLand on the black site
  9. Cleared for entryEarn the black site’s clearance
  10. Inside the black siteOpen the black site’s doors
  11. Twin lasersGet the ship’s first upgrade
  12. Mega laserGet the ship’s second upgrade
  13. Lock-on turretAiring’s first anti-air upgrade
  14. Lock missilesAiring’s second anti-air upgrade
  15. Torpedo hatchSteelhead’s first underwater upgrade
  16. Sonar cannonSteelhead’s second underwater upgrade
  17. Drone swarmCapital Copilot’s first anti-kaiju upgrade
  18. Mech frameCapital Copilot’s second anti-kaiju upgrade
  19. Ice armourTrade blue crystals at STN-2
  20. Rose shieldTrade pink crystals at STN-2
  21. Saved by the shieldLet the shield take a meteorite
  22. ClangLet the armour take a hit
  23. First crystalMine a crystal from STN-2
  24. First bloodBeat the creatures on a world
  25. Flag plantedConquer a world
  26. Four worldsConquer every world
  27. Base onlineBring a world’s base online
  28. Civilization IIA town reaches Era I
  29. Civilization IIIA town reaches Era II
  30. Civilization IVA town reaches Era III
  31. Civilization VReach Era IV with a neighbouring world
  32. Galactic festivalGet every town to Era II
  33. Station upgradeFinish a station’s first upgrade
  34. Joint ventureTwo worlds finish an advanced upgrade
  35. MaydaySave the tug crew at STN-1
  36. Cut looseCatch the drifting spacewalker at STN-3
  37. SOS receivedPick up the signal from Jupiter
  38. Astronaut rescuedAnswer the SOS
  39. Into the giantFly into the gas giant
  40. Instrument makerBuild an instrument at the outpost
  41. Full kitBuild all eight outpost instruments
  42. Gate 1 · WebBuild Web’s launch pad
  43. Gate 2 · AppsBuild Apps’ space elevator
  44. Gate 3 · AIBuild AI’s elevator and mission control
  45. All gates openOpen Web, Apps and AI
  46. LiftoffLaunch a rocket from the spaceport
  47. SnapshotLand on a survey photo and sit still
  48. Off and on againFix the broken ad sat over Airing
  49. World 1 surveyedPhotograph every frame on CC-1, Capital Copilot
  50. World 2 surveyedPhotograph every frame on NR-2, NoRespawn
  51. World 3 surveyedPhotograph every frame on AR-3, Airing
  52. World 4 surveyedPhotograph every frame on SH-4, Steelhead
  53. CartographerPhotograph every frame on every world
  54. Eyes onlyPhotograph a classified frameSecret achievement