A Ukrainian hacked mapa.ua in one day — the service tracks drones, missiles and KABs in real time

A developer under the nickname smituk (Sergiy Stamat) launched mapa.ua — a free volunteer service that tracks drones, missiles, and guided bombs over Ukraine in real time.

Data is collected from official channels and instantly processed by artificial intelligence. No registration, no advertising is integrated into the service. The platform, according to the IT expert, will be free forever.

All the code is written using vibecoding: the developer formulated the task in a chat with Claude, rather than writing the code manually. The project cost several million Claude Opus 4.6 tokens, about 100,000 Gemini 2.5 Pro tokens, and Google Search to clarify the real speeds of objects. The author has 20 years of experience in programming.

«If you already know how to do a project, you can do it in one day,» he writes in Threads.

According to the engineer, beginners without experience would spend more time and tokens — and, perhaps, would not reach the result at all. After the launch, the author himself admitted that he was shocked — the scale of attacks, which becomes visible on the map, is impressive. Now the team is looking for testers from different regions of Ukraine.

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