ExoHunter AI — a project by Ahsan Mahmood
AI-powered exoplanet discovery and analysis platform
This page will not tell you how well ExoHunter AI works. No source says, and astronomy is a poor field to guess in.
Software that claims to help find planets is making two claims at once. One is about the software and the other is about the science, and only the first of them belongs on a portfolio page.
What the record says is short.
It is a platform that uses AI to assist in exoplanet discovery and analysis, with data analysis, pattern recognition, visualisation and research tools named as what it offers.
Assist is the load-bearing word in that sentence.
A tool that assists sits beside the person doing the work and hands them something to look at. It does not replace the judgement, and on this subject the judgement is most of the job.
Pattern recognition produces candidates.
A candidate is a thing to check rather than a thing to announce, and every field that has ever run automated detection over a large dataset has learned that the same way. The interesting output of a tool like this is a shortlist and the reason it was shortlisted.
Visualisation is the half a browser genuinely does well.
Rendering a signal so that a person can see the shape of it is a task suited to a screen, and it is the part of the product where a web application has no disadvantage against anything heavier.
Research tools is the other phrase in the record, and it is not expanded anywhere. So this page reports that they exist and does not describe them, which is a shorter sentence than the alternative and a truer one.
The rest is where the honesty has to live.
No dataset is named in the record. No model is named. No accuracy figure, no false-positive rate and no comparison against another method appears anywhere, so none of them appears here.
That absence is the page.
An AI product page is the easiest place in a portfolio to write a number nobody can check, and a science-adjacent one is where such a number would do the most damage. A reader who trusted a made-up precision figure would be worse off for having read this.
So there is a gap, and the gap is labelled.
Underneath it is the ordinary arrangement. React and TypeScript with Tailwind on the interface, Firebase behind it, and free tiers throughout, with no server that has to be kept alive for the site to work.
That constraint is also a boundary.
Serious numerical work over a large survey is not something a free tier and a browser tab do, and a product built inside those limits is a place to look at data and reason about it rather than a place to run the heavy pass. Saying which of the two this is costs nothing and prevents a misunderstanding.
The record marks it in progress.
That is a fact about where it stands, and it is not a promise about what arrives next. Nothing on this page describes a plan, because a plan written on a portfolio is a commitment made by the person least able to guarantee the calendar.
The same person chose the charts, wrote the data model and paid for the hosting, which on a project of this shape is worth knowing before anything else is read.
It is at exohunterai.aoneahsan.com.
The most interesting thing about a detection tool is its error rate, and this one has not published one.
What it does, and what that costs to build
- Exoplanet data analysis
- AI pattern recognition
- Data visualization
- Research tools
Built with
- React
- TypeScript
- Firebase
- AI/ML
- TailwindCSS
Worth knowing
- ai
- science
- astronomy
- research
Who built ExoHunter AI?
Ahsan Mahmood built it working alone, and it is at exohunterai.aoneahsan.com. It is React and TypeScript with Tailwind on the interface and Firebase underneath, with AI and ML named in the stack. One person chose the visualisations, wrote the analysis surface and set up the hosting, which is the same arrangement behind all of this work. It is a working software project rather than a research collaboration, and nothing about it is presented as anything else.
Does ExoHunter AI find exoplanets?
It assists with discovery and analysis, which is the word the record uses and the word this page keeps. The tools it names are data analysis, pattern recognition and visualisation, and pattern recognition produces candidates rather than conclusions. A candidate is something to check, and the checking is not what this software does. No detection, confirmation or result of any kind is claimed here, and none is recorded anywhere I could cite if I wanted to claim one.
What does this page deliberately leave out?
Every number somebody would most want, because none of them exist in any source I can point at. No dataset is named, no model or provider is named, no accuracy or false-positive rate is given, and there is no comparison against any other tool or method. That is not modesty. A figure invented to make an astronomy page sound credible is the single worst thing that could appear on it, and the standing rule on this site is that a fact without a published source is omitted rather than guessed.
Is ExoHunter AI finished?
No. The record marks it in progress, and that is a fact about today rather than a promise about anything later. This page says what the product does now and does not say what it will do next, which is the rule this work is written to. A roadmap is the easiest thing in the world to write and the hardest to be held to by one person maintaining a long list of things at once.
Does ExoHunter AI work on iPhone?
No, there is no iOS build, and there is no installed application on any platform. It is a web application, so it opens in a browser on a phone, a tablet or a desktop machine without anything being installed first. There is no Apple Developer account behind this work and nothing built here has ever been submitted to the App Store. For a tool whose output is charts on a screen, the browser was always going to be the honest place for it.
https://aoneahsan.com/projects/com.aoneahsan.exohunterai