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Starlink

Starlink

software

20 creators use or recommend it

▲ 12 active in the last 90 days

15 use 5 recommend 42 mention 2 critical
Last discussed Oct 19, 2026

SpaceX's satellite internet constellation providing broadband internet access globally, especially in remote areas.

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Joe Rogan, Jason Calacanis, Peter Diamandis and 17 others use or recommend Starlink. See what else they have in common.

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What creators think

Andy Stumpf, Gwynne Shotwell, Aravind Srinivas, and others across tech, aviation, and outdoor contexts recommend Starlink strongly, with in-flight and remote connectivity as the clearest recurring use case — several say it makes conventional airline internet feel unacceptable by comparison. Clay Bavor uses a Starlink Mini as part of a multi-network setup for daily commute connectivity, and Blake Resnick notes it enables unlimited-range drone operation anywhere on earth. Peter Zeihan is the outlier, raising a serious concern: he says evidence recovered by Ukrainian forces showed Starlink was actively aiding Russian missile and drone guidance, a claim that sits in sharp contrast to the otherwise positive signal here.

How Starlink compares

9 creators weighed in
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Elon Musk's private space company

Starlink is a money-making branch of SpaceX, the way AWS grew out of Amazon, per Travis.

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Gavin Baker

"Everyone will have a nuanced view on Starlink. Maybe they're skeptical on Starlink direct-to-cell. I think the plan to use distributed Starlink — effectively small cells, FTO cells — is interesting."

One of several SpaceX business lines investors consider alongside orbital compute and Grok

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Travis Kalanick

"The fact that Elon has taken SpaceX to Starlink to data centers in space — it's just like nobody would start there."

Cited as an extension of SpaceX, analogous to how AWS extended Amazon's core business

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Jeremy Grantham

"Starlink, great idea. By the way, makes money. But this is not Starlink."

Contrasted with SpaceX's broader AI and asteroid-mining ambitions, which Grantham views as speculative.

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Elad Gil

"Then they built out the Starlink network which is now like a major driver of their business, right?"

Evolved from SpaceX's original space launch business

encrypted private messaging app

Starlink works where cell signal is blocked or missing. Signal needs a working connection to function.

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Daniel Rodriguez

"We ended up getting Starlink. We got Starlink in a TJ jail. We ended up getting Starlink and had Wi-Fi for a little while."

After cell scramblers disrupted regular signal

Peter Diamandis

"I can't wait till Starlink is retrofitted into every car. When you have gigabit connection speeds to your car, it's going to be extraordinary. These vehicles that have GPUs on board and Starlink are going to be inference edge computing."

Contrasted with current cellular coverage gaps (e.g., driving through Hollywood Hills with no signal)

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marketing strategy book

Rivals like Rocket Lab are positioning to challenge Starlink's 10,000-satellite fleet, while Ukraine's Starlink access gives it a drone warfare edge Russia lacks.

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Ian Laffey

"The big advantage that Ukraine has is Starlink. So they have access to Starlink and Russia doesn't have access to Starlink. You're seeing more AI drones coming out of Ukraine than you're seeing out of Russia."

Major advantage over Russia who lacks access; recently blocked positioning features for non-military contracts

John Coogan

"This partnership is probably going up against Starlink. SpaceX already operates a 10,000 satellite fleet."

Rocket Lab/Iridium are positioning to compete directly against Starlink

voice-to-text dictation tool

Starlink keeps you online where cell service fails. Without it, tools like Wispr Flow stop working in dead zones.

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This Week in Startups

"I'm going to get the Starlink Mini on the road and I want to get this executive van. Put a Starlink on it and then I could just recapture, you know, whatever an hour a day."

Needed because cell connectivity is unreliable in Hill Country, Texas, which causes Whisper Flow to fail

What creators say

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All-In Podcast
uses mentioned
Used for: Internet connection for recording the podcast remotely Praised: Flawless audio and connection quality

"Another huge shout out to Starlink. How good do I sound right now? ... Starlink is bananas."

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+1 more mention from All-In

"And they have Starlink and they have access and VPNs. And so, they want to be part of the future."

Peter Diamandis
uses mentioned
Used for: In-flight internet connectivity — choosing airlines based on Starlink availability Praised: Driving massive adoption across airlines vs: Incumbents like VSAT utilities will be crushed by Starlink

"I choose a Starlink-enabled airline over non. People are posting on X saying, 'I'm going to only fly the airlines that have Starlink.'"

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"I would preferentially fly any airline that has Starlink on it. Actually, I would love when I buy a flight... just put a little Starlink logo on th..."

"Their near-term cash engine Starlink is outperforming. They have 12 million subscribers. That's 2x year-over-year. The revenues grew 66% to 4.3 bil..."

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Used for: Live streaming the XB1 supersonic test flight to viewers around the world Praised: Enabled first supersonic in-flight internet installation; allowed global live...

"We had the first supersonic installation of Starlink so people around the world could tune in watching a video filmed on an iPhone streamed via Starlink."

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+1 more mention from Blake

"The first supersonic air-to-air live stream filmed on an iPhone, streamed via Starlink — and of course, the most importantly, legalizing supersonic..."

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Used for: Mobile internet connectivity in rural/dead zone areas of Texas Praised: Eliminates dead zones where cell coverage is unavailable vs: Used because T-Mobile and other carriers have dead zones in Texas Hill Country

"I was on a call with Elon and I kept dropping because of these dead zones. I was like, I'm either going to get fired or I'm putting a mini on my car, and so now I have Starlink on my car."

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Joe Rogan
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Used for: High-speed internet access in remote mountain locations Praised: Compact size (iPad-sized), works in remote mountains, high-speed connectivity

"Like Starlink. Like what? Have a thing that's the size of an iPad I take to the mountains and I get high-speed internet. It's bananas."

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+6 more mentions from Joe

"Where the fuck would we be without these wizards who have figured out cell phones and laptops and high-speed internet and Starlink?"

"Well, you won't even need it now. It's Starlink. Just slap one of those things on your roof."

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Used for: Providing connectivity for cattle collars in remote, off-grid ranch locations where base stations can't reach Praised: Enables connectivity in mountainous and off-grid areas; mesh coordination bet... vs: Replaced base station/tower-based connectivity which didn't work well in moun...

"Each collar now can talk to Starlink and they also talk to each other. So they kind of coordinate a mesh. They elect the best leader to then talk to Starlink. That kind of saves power and cost."

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Ethan Goodhart
uses Mini
Used for: Cloud inference for world models and live code shipping to the golf cart while in motion on campus Praised: Enables working on the golf cart outside the dorm room, shipping code live wi...

"On the top, you've got a Starlink Mini. That's right. It allows us to do two things: test out cloud inference — we're exploring running some delays and world models in the cloud — and it also allows us to have good connectivity to write code and s..."

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Philip Johnston
uses mentioned
Used for: High bandwidth, low latency data connectivity for StarCloud satellites Praised: Very high bandwidth and low latency

"We've just signed a contract with SpaceX for our next 20 satellites to have a Starlink laser terminal that gives us very high bandwidth, low latency connectivity."

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+1 more mention from Philip

"For the next 25 of our satellites, we'll have two Starlink — they call it PLA, plug-and-play laser terminals — on our satellite, and then one laser..."

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Jason Calacanis
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Used for: Internet connectivity while traveling or on the water

"I forgot my Starlink. So let me apologize to everybody. That was a critical error when you're on the road or on the water."

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+5 more mentions from Jason

"Did you see the giant Starlink versions now? They make like a really big version — I think you got one of the enterprise versions — but there's lik..."

"You put a Starlink on your roof. Now you've got a distributed system where you get a couple of these Powerwalls with their own silicon in it and a ..."

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Used for: Providing unlimited connectivity range for Guardian drone anywhere in the world Praised: Maintains connectivity anywhere in the world including over open ocean

"Integrated Starlink — that is this panel on the top of the airframe — giving it unlimited range anywhere in the world. If I wanted to take Guardian off and fly it into the Pacific Ocean, that is something that I would be able to do without losing ..."

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Clay Bavor
uses Mini
Used for: Uninterrupted internet connectivity during daily commute to and from the city Praised: Uninterrupted, beautiful connectivity when combined with two cellular networks

"I now have a very complex networking setup that combines two cellular networks and a Starlink Mini so that I have uninterrupted, beautiful connectivity to and from the city every day."

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Used for: Internet access in Mexican prison Praised: Provided Wi-Fi connectivity in remote location vs: After cell scramblers disrupted regular signal

"We ended up getting Starlink. We got Starlink in a TJ jail. We ended up getting Starlink and had Wi-Fi for a little while."

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Ian Laffey
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Used for: Communication for drone operations, positioning capability Praised: Highly directional antenna, much more difficult to jam than GPS, enables AI d... vs: Major advantage over Russia who lacks access; recently blocked positioning fe...

"The big advantage that Ukraine has is Starlink. So they have access to Starlink and Russia doesn't have access to Starlink. You're seeing more AI drones coming out of Ukraine than you're seeing out of Russia."

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Used for: Internet connectivity while traveling in car

"Then I'm going on a longer trip with that car. I also put a Starlink unit into the back uh and then just like um you know if someone else drives I can work from from from there."

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Used for: Remote internet access while camping and in cabins Praised: Works fantastic, portable, enables streaming in remote locations, life-changing

"I was actually one of the first people to get it in Montana and it works fantastic. I have the little one that's like a book. It's fucking great take it we I took it to Utah. We were streaming stuff while we were in the cabins. It was awesome. It'..."

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Alex Wissner-Gross
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Used for: In-flight internet Praised: Best available connectivity system vs: Delta's current in-flight Wi-Fi called atrocious

"I want to start by shaming publicly Delta for not adopting Starlink... how atrocious the internet coverage in the air on Delta flights was. Just do it already... just use Starlink. If there were a better system out there, use that. But Starlink is..."

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This Week in Startups
recommends mentioned Mini
Used for: Mobile internet connectivity in a vehicle to use cloud-based tools like Whisper Flow while traveling in areas with poor cell coverage Praised: Enables recapturing an hour a day of productive work while on the road vs: Needed because cell connectivity is unreliable in Hill Country, Texas, which ...

"I'm going to get the Starlink Mini on the road and I want to get this executive van. Put a Starlink on it and then I could just recapture, you know, whatever an hour a day."

More from This Week in Startups →
+6 more mentions from This

"You got fiber optic lines. You can put multiple industrial Starlinks now on the roof."

"Is there a future when there's your setup in a clinic somewhere and maybe a doctor can remote in to it from a place where they're qualified and tra..."

Salim Ismail
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Used for: In-flight internet connectivity Praised: Implied to be significantly better than existing airline internet options vs: Compared unfavorably to the 'meager thin pipe connection' available on his fl...

"I don't know why every airline doesn't have Starlink. You know, I'm suffering on some meager thin pipe connection flying over the poles, over the Northern Territories, and there's nothing."

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+1 more mention from Salim

"As a failed engineer, this is like the greatest thing I've ever seen. You've got SpaceX, you've got Tesla, you've got Starlink, you've got Neuralin..."

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Aravind Srinivas
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Used for: In-flight internet connectivity Praised: Enables watching/recording content on planes; makes flying without it feel in... vs: Implicit comparison to standard in-flight internet — described as transformat...

"Have you been on a flight with Starlink? No? You should. You will hate being on a flight without Starlink after that. Imagine we can record this — I can watch this podcast while flying on a plane. Starlink lets you do that."

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Thomas Laffont
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Used for: Global telecommunications, phone calls anywhere in the world Praised: Works all the time, no radio towers required, substantially better product th... vs: Compared to traditional telecom infrastructure and service providers

"I believe that within a few years Starlink will power a device which will actually enable you to make a phone call anywhere in the world. Starlink works all the time, no radio towers."

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Tom Bilyeu
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vs: Contrasted with Starshield, the US government military satellite program

"So there's been all this debate about Ukraine's access to Starlink. Starlink is different than Starshield. Now, I think Elon is being a little too cute with the way that he talks about this... Now he's saying, 'Hey, hey, hey, using Starlink for we..."

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"I had never considered the fact that Starlink is closed over Russia. And so that means for these guys doing a lot of their targeting, they're not a..."

"SpaceX apparently put a speed limit on Starlink last night and it threw a major wrench in Ukraine's attack plans on Russia."

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Sarah Longwell
mentioned

"JVL has this theory like we should definitely nationalize SpaceX. We should nationalize Starlink, and I don't like nationalizing private companies."

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John Coogan
mentioned

"We know Starlink is available on planes now and he's going direct to cell and he's going to put the data centers in space."

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"Wow. Starlink is that good."

"We were on a United flight and they did have Starlink. I think it was the first one. And pretty good. Pretty good."

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Carter Fowler
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Praised: Solving coverage vs: Contrasted with decentralized mesh networks

"You remember the kind of fiasco when Starlink was discontinued for everyone in Ukraine a few years ago. That's the danger of a centralized network. There's actually a switch that can be flipped. And we love Starlink. They've done a lot for connect..."

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David Friedberg
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Praised: Acts as a phased-array radar that can detect stealth aircraft

"The Starlink network basically becomes this incredible radar system that sits above the Earth to look down on things that would normally be stealth from the surface of the Earth."

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Emad Mostaque
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Used for: Resilient internet backbone Praised: Can be hardened against cyber attacks vs: Terrestrial internet is full of holes and attack surfaces

"Building a resilient Starlink backbone is going to be super important to actually having a functioning internet in a few years."

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Barrett Lyon
mentioned
Used for: Organizing camp logistics at Burning Man Praised: Helps with communication and organizing

"For me, like when you're organizing a camp or dealing with, you know, oh we ran out of water on the car, it helps because you can communicate... If you're using it for anything other than like local communications, then maybe it's the wrong use."

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John Jovanovic
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"You're not buying a Starlink. You're getting to partner with cutting-edge American technology."

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Fareed Zakaria
mentioned

"They have to do this without Starlink because once you enter Russian territory they're not allowed to use Starlink. Starlink is not turned on for them."

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Christopher Zuk
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Used for: Providing internet connectivity to remote portable data centers

"Because of Starlink, they can have a completely fully operational data center as long as they have power and access to the sky."

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Jared Isaacman
mentioned
Used for: Illustrating how ion thrusters work as an analogy for nuclear-powered spacecraft propulsion vs: Used as baseline comparison for scaled-up nuclear electric propulsion systems

"Think of a lot of the Starlink satellites that you'd have up right now that use Hall-effect ion thrusters right now. They're generating electricity through solar power and then using electromagnetic forces — they're ionizing either krypton or xeno..."

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Gavin Baker
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Used for: Broadband internet access for underserved and remote global communities Praised: Enables internet access where no economic case existed before; massive consum...

"Starlink bringing low-cost internet access to the poorest communities in the world — which is amazing — something that people don't talk about but it's an amazing consumer surplus. There was never going to be an economic case to build internet acc..."

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+4 more mentions from Gavin

"Everyone will have a nuanced view on Starlink. Maybe they're skeptical on Starlink direct-to-cell. I think the plan to use distributed Starlink — e..."

"Forget Starlink V3, forget Starlink Direct to Cell, Grok 4.5 and Cursor — the sum of that probably hits a $10 billion ARR pretty quickly."

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Peter Zeihan
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"Starlink was being allowed to be used to guide Russian cruise missiles and drones... After the Ukrainians proved to the world, using the equipment recovered, that Starlink was basically actively aiding and abetting in mass murder, Starlink changed..."

Peter Diamandis
critical

"Starlink was being allowed to be used to guide Russian cruise missiles and drones, long term about allowing them even hit moving targets. After the Ukrainians proved to the world using the equipment recovered that Starlink was basically actively a..."

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