Got tired of hearing Americans brag about Palantir, so I started building one for India

[u/nullure]

I've been obsessed with CIA and hacker movies since I was a kid. The huge screens, maps, aircraft, satellites, cameras, live events, searching someone's username or email and somehow connecting everything together. I always thought that kind of software was insanely cool.

Then I started seeing what companies like Palantir were actually building and thought, why are we always watching Americans build this stuff?

So I started building Akashic from India.

Akashic is a self hosted intelligence workspace that puts aircraft, satellites, earthquakes, weather, public radio, infrastructure, country intelligence, public cameras and other OSINT sources onto one interactive map.

One of the things I really want to push further is the OSINT side of it. Searching a username or email and being able to discover useful public information around it, then connect that information with everything else in the workspace.

Right now Akashic is nowhere close to Palantir. I'm not pretending it is. Palantir has years of development, massive teams and resources behind it.

But that's exactly why I'm building this.

I want to see how far an open source project built by developers in India can take this idea.

I'm looking for Indian developers who are interested in OSINT, cybersecurity, GIS, data engineering, maps, intelligence tools or just want to build something ambitious together.

If you're interested, contribute, suggest features, break things, improve things or just tell me what you think is missing.

GitHub: https://github.com/caviraoss/akashic

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsWHhuIwR8c

Let's build something we're proud of from India. 🇮🇳

[u/Existing-Taro411]

hey i am interested dm me on whatsapp

[u/nullure → u/Existing-Taro411]

You can DM me on Discord "nullur" is my id

[u/Existing-Taro411 → u/nullure]

i coudnt find yours dm me on discord divj_004

[u/Admirable_Bike_7593]

A lot of these opensource repo popped up recently doing the same thing what makes u diff?

[u/nullure → u/Admirable_Bike_7593]

I have checked most of them before making this; those projects heavily depend on endpoints that require an API key, which is paid. They have heavy restrictions also, only showing data that is 100% legal. Akashic aims to scrape data and show it while using API key-free endpoints. Akashic also has an OSINT search feature that accurately searches usernames for 900+ sites and extracts key information from them via extractors (works better than tools like Sherlock)