Lookup - Ask Video Anything
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Lookup turns raw footage into structured answers, proof clips, and automations with just a few lines of code. From counting people to compliance checks, it makes video searchable and programmable—this will help any app see.
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👋 Hey Product Hunt!
I’m Ajay, co-founder of Lookup, and today we’re launching.
The problem:
Most vision products are narrow. They optimize for one thing — safety, checkout, traffic — and stop there. But vision is only valuable when it’s inside another product. As a superpower.
If you’re a dev or PM, you don’t want a “vision startup.”
You want your app to see. So it can improve metrics and outcomes on its own.
What Lookup does:
👉 Upload or connect video
👉 Ask a question in plain English
👉 Get structured answers — counts, timelines, events — with proof clips you can trust.
We hide the heavy lifting (detection, tracking, reasoning). You just call the API.
How it works:
Lookup runs a cascade of models (motion → detection → video-language).
We store results in:
– Object DB: what + where
– Temporal DB: when + order
Together, video becomes queryable like a database. See once, remember forever.
Who it’s for:
⚡ Product / FDE / Dev teams — add “eyes” to your app, build your app workflow on top of vision.
Why now: Cameras are everywhere. Storage is cheap. What’s missing is a layer that makes video useful for any product. Lookup is that layer.
Who we are:
We’re second-time founders in video AI.
– At OurEye.ai (YC W22) we scaled to 1,500+ deployments.
– At AvairSense, our AI camera hit 1,000+ homes.
We learned one thing: computer vision only wins when it disappears into the workflow. Lookup is that lesson, turned into a platform.
Playground:
Try it yourself. Upload a video, ask questions, see answers. No training. No labeling. Just truth from video.
👉 If your app could see, what would you build?
We’d love to hear. 🚀
Shoutout to @thisiskp_ for hunting us. Also @zaczuo and @rohanrecommends for the help.
@ajaykumar1018 huge shoutout to the team lookup is going to save me hours
Lookup
Thanks@subash_yadav1, great to hear Lookup’s saving you hours, that’s the goal
@subash_yadav1 @ajaykumar1018
This is great to hear
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Will it be possible to upload a YouTube link (or any kind of link from a third-party platform) instead of only uploading the file?
Lookup
@busmark_w_nika not yet :( but we will be building that soon
minimalist phone: creating folders
@sourav_sanyal4 I think it would be a useful addition :)
Lookup
What would you build in your app if you could integrate vision within your product?
SatoshiGPT
Lookup
@alankar_saxena1 exactly what we are solving for. Humans see to belive, we want to let software see too!
very cool!
how long of videos do you support right now?
also, does it provide timestamps for given events?
Lookup
@itspsneha the video memory is unlimited, and it does provides timestamps for every event and clip :)
Awesome Idea , and a very nice implementation
Keep it up guys !! Long way to go
Lookup
@kushant_garg Thanks Kushant!
@kushant_garg @ajaykumar1018
Thank you Kushant
CalPulse
Great launch! How does Lookup handle different video formats? Excited to try it out
Lookup
Thanks@peilan_qin , we supports most common video formats out of the box in our APIs, so you can upload and query without worrying about conversions. You can also stream in realtime using an RTSP link
The exact thing I was waiting to see in my home CCTV footage application. I have pets at home and people visiting home when I am out. I generally have to go through 9 hours of footage to catch 30s clip which drains me otherwise. Looking forward to check it out.
Also, does it process only real world video or can it process screen recordings. Curious to know if it can be integrated to get insights on remotely recorded screen sessions.
Lookup
@ajay_venkateswaran that’s exactly the problem we built Lookup to solve. It’ll work great for pet videos so you don’t have to scrub through hours of footage. Screen recording support is also in our product plan and will be coming soon
YouMind
Congrats on the launch!
Lookup
Thanks @hi_caicai
@hi_caicai @ajaykumar1018
Thank you!!
Wow! This is what I was looking for. Excited to leverage the vision capability in our product. Let me loop in our tech team
Lookup
@shubham16180 Great to hear that. Excited to see how your team puts it to use, happy to help with the integration 🙃
@shubham16180 thanks Shubham
@ajaykumar1018
What if the video data is too large to upload or query via your cloud API. I'd imagine this indexed data could get unwieldy real fast. What if the organization wasn't comfortable sharing their sensitive video footage to the cloud? Do you have a plan in the roadmap to do all of the processing and indexing at the customer's edge or customer-managed cloud and giving them full data sovereignty and visibility into their indexed data without leaking the data and metrics to the big boys? I'm sure there are all sorts of privacy and multi-tenancy laws to adhere to if this system is hosted in the cloud especially for enterprise live cameras. For example, Illinois has stringent facial recognition and associated biometrics laws in place to analyze footage without consent
Lookup
@anand_setlur Great question! We’re already building for both modes: a hosted cloud API for teams that want speed to market, and an edge / customer-managed deployment for orgs that need full control and data sovereignty. Mode of development can vary as per orgs preference.
Privacy and compliance are core to our roadmap, we don’t do biometric identification and our design is around public regulations from day one.