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PARTLY Partly true: Osiris is a real free open-source OSINT globe that tracks thousands of aircraft, satellites and public cameras from public feeds; 'someone rebuilt Palantir for free' is the hype layer Facebook · Sep 2026

The claim'Someone rebuilt Palantir. The spy-tech company worth more than $400 billion, and put it on GitHub for free.' Osiris runs in the browser, shows a live 3D globe tracking 10,000+ aircraft, 2,000+ satellites and CCTV feeds in real time; it is 'a Next.js app wiring together public feeds, OpenSky for flights, plus earthquake, wildfire, maritime and news data. No login, no paywall, no secret backend.' 'Comment OSIRIS and I'll send you the link + full breakdown.'

The tool is real and the reel's technical description is unusually accurate for the genre: Osiris is an open-source 'Global Intelligence Platform' built as a Next.js app that pulls OpenSky flight data, USGS earthquakes, NASA FIRMS wildfires, NOAA space weather, GDELT and broadcaster RSS feeds into a WebGL globe, with live public webcams and satellite tracks, no database and no login. It has a hosted demo, a one-click Railway deploy and a pile of GitHub forks that all carry the tagline 'A Palantir Alternative,' which is where the reel gets its hook. That tagline is the hype. Palantir's business is integrating and analysing governments' and corporations' private data under contract; a dashboard of free public feeds is an impressive OSINT toy, not a rebuilt Palantir, and nobody watching aircraft on a globe is doing what a $400 billion company is paid for. 'Comment OSIRIS for the link' withholds a public GitHub URL to grow a DM list. Use it for what it is: a genuinely good open-source situational-awareness map.

What holds up

  • Reel transcribed and frames read; the feature list (3D globe, 10K+ aircraft, 2K satellites, CCTV, OpenSky, earthquake, wildfire, news feeds, Next.js, no backend) matches the project's README.
  • GitHub repositories for Osiris ('Open Source Global Intelligence Platform, Real-Time OSINT Dashboard, A Palantir Alternative') exist across multiple forks; a live demo and a Railway deploy template are public; the stack is Next.js 16 with MapLibre/WebGL and stateless API routes to public sources.
  • Palantir's public market value has been in the hundreds of billions in 2026, so the '$400 billion' line is in range; its products (Gotham, Foundry) are private-data integration platforms, not public-feed maps.
  • The GitHub link is public; the 'comment OSIRIS' hook is a lead-capture step, not a requirement.

What doesn’t

  • 'Rebuilt Palantir' compares a public-feed map to a private-data analytics contractor.
  • The link is withheld for comments although the repository is public.
  • Public webcam and flight feeds carry their own terms and rate limits; 'runs in your browser' still depends on those upstream sources staying open.

The catch

Real tool, honest tech description, silly headline. Search the repository name instead of commenting, deploy it if you like maps, and do not tell anyone you have Palantir.

How to actually do it

  • Find the repository directly on GitHub (search 'Osiris OSINT dashboard'); the one-click Railway deploy is the easiest way to run your own copy.
  • Expect rate limits: OpenSky and other public APIs throttle anonymous use; heavy use needs your own keys.
  • Treat it as awareness, not intelligence: the value of Palantir-class tools is the private data and the analysts, neither of which ships with a map.

Osiris is a real, free, open-source OSINT globe and the reel describes its stack accurately; 'someone rebuilt Palantir' and the comment-for-link hook are the hype.

Confidence
High
Posted by
Pathwise Academy (an AI-tools education page); reel sent to the self-thread Mon Sep 14, 2026, 12:40 PM

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