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My weekend hacking on IP cameras turned into a startup: Dropcam (http://www.dropcam.com http://www.dropcam.com). Dropcams can push alert your iPhone on motion o
by gduffy 16y ago
My weekend hacking on IP cameras turned into a startup: Dropcam (http://www.dropcam.com http://www.dropcam.com). Dropcams can push alert your iPhone on motion or sound and they store up to 30 days of video.
When I was a kid, I had the Firecracker serial-to-wireless-to-X10 gadget hooked up to a PC running Microsoft Agent/batch scripts. I could voice control my ceiling fan, lights, etc like Star Trek (at least, if the Enterprise had ceiling fans). It was a big hit with the ladies.
I like everything about renting except for how much of a hassle it is to change wiring and put gadgets in the walls.
- jsdalton 16y agoWow, I'm so going to buy this. We've got another baby on the way and I was looking for something like this to use as a baby monitor. Nothing out there has really caught my fancy yet, but this looks pretty darn awesome. BTW, I might not represent your potential customer base perfectly, but I would ideally like to see a few more screenshots of the web interface on your website.
- gduffy 16y agoCongratulations! We hear a lot of fun stuff from our baby monitoring customers. One of our users called it "Baby TiVo" ... you can export clips to send to the family, so it's lots of fun. As for screenshots, did you check out http://www.dropcam.com/demo http://www.dropcam.com/demo? You get there by clicking "See it live" on the homepage. We should probably add links to it from the learn more/product pages.
- chopsueyar 16y agoAre you using Wowza? Did you modify the actual Axis firmware?